3 Short films for Abbas Kiarostami
The Bread and Alley (1970); wonderful ten minutes. Simple close-up. More focus on the looking than the reverse of what is looked at, though this does come. Shot of the street from fixed view, lokking down rather than across. Use of sound design to evoke dog. Wonderful double-view as the dog is seen not just as ferocious. More in this than in most features.
Breaktime (1972); 11 minutes, fisrt view of punishment. Use of telephoto lens to capture far away. No dwelling on the punishment. Again, fine work.
The Chorus (1982); 17 minutes. Again the use of sound design. About ignoring the world. Kiarotami's focus on the kind of ordinary people genuinely ignored. Sweet, but never lapsing to sentimentality. Enigmatic ending of the man's smile.
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