Abbas Kiarostami
Iran
1990
Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-Up is his most radical, brilliant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, Close-Up has resonated with viewers around the world.
This event is part of our monthly film screening series, See/Saw, an ongoing program of experimental, avant-garde, indie, arthouse, and outsider films. Seating is limited. $10 in advance or at the door. $5 for students and members. Films start at 7:30pm.
