Recently watched Kiarostami’s Close-Up with a friend. She said it felt unlike anything she’d seen before, but it pulled her in. Kiarostami didn’t just work around constraints but leaned into them, blurring the line between fiction and reality, using non-actors, long takes, and minimal scripts. In interviews he said that he was interested in breaking cinematic habits, shifting how we experience time, narrative, and realism itself. When a medium ossifies, it’s not just the tools and techniques that stagnate but also the way audiences learn to see. Real innovation forces us to see differently
Recently watched Kiarostami’s Close-Up with a friend. She said it felt unlike anything she’d seen before, but it pulled her in. Kiarostami didn’t just work around constraints but leaned into them, blurring the line between fiction and reality, using non-actors, long takes, and minimal scripts. In interviews he said that he was interested in breaking cinematic habits, shifting how we experience time, narrative, and realism itself. When a medium ossifies, it’s not just the tools and techniques that stagnate but also the way audiences learn to see. Real innovation forces us to see differently
interesting, did not know that about Close Up. Reminds me of Under The Skin, which used a similar method, likely inspired by Kiarostami in some way
You missed Mike Cotton who used LLMs only for backend world-building but wrote the text in AI-inspired ways (syncopation etc)
ah..brain fade