24 frames
Edition
DVD special edition.
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2019]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (114 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (illustrations ; 19 cm)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
For what would prove to be his final film, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami gave himself a challenge: to create a dialogue between his work as a filmmaker and his work as a photographer, bridging the two art forms to which he had dedicated his life. Setting out to reconstruct the moments immediately before and after a photograph is taken, Kiarostami selected twenty-four still images--most of them stark landscapes inhabited only by foraging birds and other wildlife--and digitally animated each one into its own subtly evolving four-and-a-half-minute vignette, creating a series of poignant studies in movement, perception, and time that is also a sustained meditation on the process of image making. 24 frames is a graceful and elegiac farewell from one of the giants of world cinema.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2017.
Special features: 2K digital master ; new interview with director Abbas Kiarostami's son Ahmad Kiarostami, who helped finish the film after his father's death ; new conversation between film scholar Jamsheed Akrami and film critic Godfrey Cheshire ; new short documentary about the making of the film by Abbas Kiarostami collaborator Salma Monshizadeh ; trailer.