An Author Liberating Reality Against the Dictates of “Mise en scène”? “Five” by Abbas Kiarostami
Piotr Zawojski
piotr.zawojski@us.edu.plUniversity of Silesia (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2291-0446
Abstract
Abbas Kiarostami’s Five (2003) is interpreted in this article in media, technological, and philosophical contexts. The author begins by presenting the circumstances of this production, the evolving title, and various display versions. In the subsequent five parts of the article, he addresses the following issues: the inspiration Kiarostami drew from the works of Yasujirō Ozu, the utopian dream of making a film ‘without an author’ (I); the possibilities offered by digital technology (II); Kiarostami’s intention to create a film ‘without history’ (III); a post-anthropocentric strategy expressed by a cinematic shift towards objects that replace the dominant tendency towards human subjects (IV); visual landscape replaced by seeing at the edge of visibility (V). At the end of the article, the installation Doors without Keys (2015) is interpreted as a votum separatum against the popular belief that moving images dominate as means of presenting reality.
Keywords:
Abbas Kiarostami, Yasujirō Ozu, post-anthropocentrism, soundscapeReferences
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Piotr Zawojskipiotr.zawojski@us.edu.pl
University of Silesia Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2291-0446
Associate Professor at the Institute of Culture Studies, University of Silesia in Katowice. He also works at the Faculty of Intermedia, Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. His research interests focus on the theory of photography, film and cinema, new media and new media arts, cyberculture and technoculture. His publications include Elektroniczne obrazoświaty. Między sztuką a technologią [Electronic Image-Worlds: Between Art and Technology] (2000); Wielkie filmy przełomu wieków. Subiektywny przewodnik [Great Films of the Turn of the Century: Subjective Guide] (2007); Cyberkultura. Syntopia sztuki, nauki i technologii [Cyberculture: Syntopy of Art, Science and Technology] (2010, 2nd edition 2018); Sztuka obrazu i obrazowania w epoce nowych mediów [The Art of Image and Imaging in the Era of New Media] (2012); Technokultura i jej manifestacje artystyczne. Medialny świat hybryd i hybrydyzacji [Technoculture and Its Artistic Manifestations: The Media World of Hybrids and Hybridization] (2016) and Ruchome obrazy zatrzymane w pamięci. Reminiscencje teoretyczne i krytyczne [Moving Images Retained in Memory: Theoretical and Critical Reminiscences] (2017). He is the editor of the Film and Media section at the Polish cultural quarterly Opcje. Member of the Committee on Cultural Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
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