- Title
- The appearance of appearance: Absolute truth in Abbas Kiarrostami's ABC Africa
- Creator
- Abbott, Mathew
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/70890
- Identifier
- vital:6652
- Identifier
- ISSN:1443-4059
- Abstract
- In Ten on Ten, a 2004 documentary featuring ten short scenes in which Abbas Kiarostami speaks in a car on his work in filming 2001’s Ten, itself a ten part movie featuring short video sequences shot entirely inside a car, the filmmaker makes a series of extremely provocative statements. This occurs in the context of a discussion of the radical possibilities that he claims opened to him when, starting with one famous and beautiful scene at the very end of 1997’s Taste of Cherry, Kiarostami started using digital cameras. Referring to the production of ABC Africa – his first feature length digital production, and which was shot in Uganda – he says: I felt that a 35mm camera would limit both us and the people there, whereas the video camera displayed truth from every angle, and not a forged truth. To me this camera was a discovery. Like a God it was all encompassing, omnipresent. The camera could turn 360 degrees and thus reported the truth, an absolute truth. (1)
- Relation
- Senses of Cinema Vol. July, no. 67 (2013), p. 1-7
- Rights
- Copyright Authors
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1902 Film, Television and Digital Media
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