Close Up (PG)

This event has already taken place and ended on 17 Jul 2010

After Kiarostami read about the trial of a poor Tehranian accused of impersonating the famous film director Moshen Makhmalbaf, he persuaded all involved to re-enact the odd story for his cameras. A film of the greatest humanity, constantly probing the limit where moving images and reality influence each other.

Dir. Abbas Kiarostami Iran 1990 1h 40m Subtitled

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Known Unknowns film season
Part of Arnolfini's Old Media season, this season of films and videos focuses on the camera's role not only in recording events, but also in producing them. The lines between documentary and fiction, acting and being, thought and moving images, become fuzzy; suggesting that cinema has become a prosthetics for our memories, subjectivities and doubts.