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March 07, 2007
Force of Abbas: Kiarostami pictures, Manhattan
"There is a connection between my photography and my cinema," Iranian director-photographer-poet Abbas Kiarostami tells Keith Uhlich at The House Next Door as his work in film and photography gets the NYC retro treatment. "If there was no movement in what I photographed then I would have felt no need to take those pictures. Yet even though you can hear the sound and see the path of the wiper, my photography is capturing one specific moment. The same applies in my cinema: even though it's a moving image, I'm still capturing a specific moment. The same applies in my poems, for example: A white foal/ emerges through the fog/ and disappears/ in the fog. You're reading that a white foal, a baby horse, has come and gone; through the poem you have an impression of the movement. Even though you don't see it, you have an impression of the movement in your psyche. This foal is like the wipers on the windshield. You don't see the actual movement of it, but you see its impression. A moment is suggested through this implied movement." [More at the link.]
Posted by Ray Pride at March 7, 2007 04:11 PM
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