Sunday, March 04, 2007

Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami is a contemporary Iranian filmmaker I had never heard of until I saw his photographs on my most recent trip to P.S.1. He is now the subject of an exhibition and retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.

2 comments:

Clay said...

This MOMA retrospective looks interesting. I think you would like his movie "Crimson Gold" from a few years ago - it's a sad & beautiful story and also gives a really interesting street-level view of modern day Tehran that you almost never see.

Clay said...

Oops, I see that Kiarostami gets the writing credit for this movie, the director was Jafar Panahi. Still think you'd like it!