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Åpent forum: Kiarostami through a Close-Up with Faraz Fesharaki

Åpent Forum has taken Kiarostamies death in summer as an excuse to host an evening watching "Close-Up" together, talk and think about it with our guest Faraz Fesharaki.

There will be more screenings in the Khio library screening room during the day. Please scroll down for details.

Kiarostami through a Close-Up

”I prefer a film which lets its audience take a nap in the theater, but won’t let them sleep at night after going out from the theater!”

That is Kiarostami’s definition of a good film, a simple and romantic idea, which somehow shows his relation to cinema as a medium — a medium which he always tried to define and redefine throughout his life as a filmmaker; a medium that according to him was not chosen purposefully by him. He was supposed to be a painter, he was a graphic designer, a photographer, wrote poems and coincidentally came to be a filmmaker. But maybe the fact that cinema was never the only medium he used made him think, rethink and analyze its strengths and specificities and push its borders so far that everybody talked about a redefinition of cinema by Kiarostami, or as Godard said, the end of cinema. Close-Up, which is described by many - including Kiarostami himself - as the climax of his filmic oeuvre, is a unique film in film history for its fascinating take on the cinematic apparatus and philosophizing about the essence of cinema/art and the position of the filmmaker/artist.

With this film as a basis, we will have a quick look into Abbas Kiarostami’s world, including films, photos, poems and videos.

Faraz Fesharaki (1986) studied cinema and then dramaturgy at the Art University of Tehran. In Iran he started making documentaries and short films which were shown in international festivals. He attended Abbas Kiarostami’s workshop, and entered German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) to study camera. He is now based in Berlin as a cameraman.

Screening in the library

12 pm: “Taste of Cherry” (1997)

2:30 pm: “Life and Nothing More…” (1992)

Screening and talk the in Khio Audiotorium

6 pm: “Close-Up” (1990)

7:45 pm: Talk in KHiO Audiotorium

Åpent Forum

A student initiative, conceived in 1999 at the Oslo Academy of Fine Art, which invites scholars and practitioners from art and sciences to share their thoughts.
The program is free and runs in English.