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Abbas Kiarostami

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Abbas Kiarostami

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Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer (1940-2016)

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Abbas Kiarostami was an Iranian male artist whose professional career spanned from 1962 to 2016. He was born on June 22, 1940, and died on July 4, 2016. His work is associated with Iran, and he is recognized as an author with a catalog of 51 works.

Among his notable publications are *Hamrāh bā bād*, *سر بر باد*, and *عاشقانه‌هاى دىرهنگام*. Other works include *زیبایی نگرانم می‌کند* and *فیلم‌نامه: عباس کیارستمی ؛ وقایع‌نگار پشت صحنه : کیومرث پوراحمد*. While one source lists five works, another records a total of 51. His name appears in 776 other encyclopedia articles.

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Person · Open Library

Works
51

Top works

  • سر بر باد
  • عاشقانه‌هاى دىرهنگام
  • زیبایی نگرانم می‌کند
  • فیلم‌نامه: عباس کیارستمی ؛ وقایع‌نگار پشت صحنه : کیومرث پوراحمد
  • Hamrāh bā bād

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Iran
Active from
1940-06-22
Active to
2016-07-04

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
91
Total plays
232

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Abbas+Kiarostami">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,975x

  2. Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019

    · 2020 · cited 10,241x

  3. Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 8,012x

  4. <i>Gaia</i> Data Release 2

    · 2018 · cited 7,447x

  5. The<i>Gaia</i>mission

    · 2016 · cited 6,413x

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Quotes

  • “To be international, you have to first be local. ... When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.”
  • “The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.”
  • “I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth.”
  • “From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.”
  • “Believe me, I am still very surprised that I managed to make that film [Close-Up]. When I actually look back on that film, I really feel that I was not the director but instead just a member of the audience. Because the film made itself, to a large extent. The characters involved were very real, I wasn't directing the actors so much as being directed by them. So it was a very particular film.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Abbas Kiarostami (Persian: عباس کیارستمی [ʔæbˌbɒːs kijɒːɾostæˈmi] ; 22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy (1987–1994), Close-Up (1990), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), and Taste of Cherry (1997), which was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year. In later works, Certified Copy (2010) and Like Someone in Love (2012), he filmed for the first time outside Iran: in Italy and Japan, respectively. His films Where Is the Friend's House? (1987), Close-Up, and The Wind Will Carry Us were ranked among the 100 best foreign films in a 2018 critics' poll by BBC Culture. Close-Up was also ranked one of the 50 greatest movies of all time in the famous decennial Sight & Sound poll conducted in 2012. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of Iran, and of all time.

Kiarostami had worked extensively as a screenwriter, film editor, art director, and producer and had designed credit titles and publicity material. He was also a poet, photographer, painter, illustrator, and graphic designer. He was part of a generation of filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave, a Persian cinema movement that started in the late 1960s and emphasized the use of poetic dialogue and allegorical storytelling dealing with political and philosophical issues.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Abbas Kiarostami” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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