{"id":58,"date":"2016-01-26T06:16:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T06:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/fluxus\/?p=58"},"modified":"2016-01-26T06:16:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T06:16:53","slug":"abbas-kiarostamis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/fluxus\/2016\/01\/26\/abbas-kiarostamis\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbas Kiarostami’s “Where Is My Friend’s House?”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abbas Kiarostami, 65th Venice Film Festival (Wikipedia)<\/p><\/div>\n

I have been looking for Abbas Kiarostami’s “Where Is My Friend’s House?<\/a>” for some time after Werner Herzog recommended it at his Rogue Film School site<\/a>. I found an old VHS copy called “Where Is The Friend’s Home?<\/a>” at the Humboldt State University Library, but I was really happy to find an updated version from the Criterion Collection on Hulu. I can think of no better time to highlight Kiarostami’s work when US and Iranian politicians are busy dehumanizing one another. Once again it is art that reminds us of our universal humanity.\u00a0Kiarostami manages to perfectly capture the world-view and ethical code of every eight year old beautifully. The cinematographer, Farhad Saba, captures the color and texture of every wall throughout the villages as well as the spatial dimension that all children reside in.\u00a0The film tells the\u00a0story\u00a0of Ahmed, a schoolboy\u00a0attempting\u00a0to return his friend’s notebook in a neighboring village.\u00a0It is getting late and Ahmed has not yet bought bread for the family, but\u00a0his friend faces expulsion if he does not turn in his notebook the following day. This\u00a0film is\u00a0a metaphor for contemporary\u00a0civil duty, loyalty, and simple everyday heroics.<\/p>\n

The film is among the top ten in the BFI list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been looking for Abbas Kiarostami’s “Where Is My Friend’s House?” for some time after Werner Herzog recommended it at his Rogue Film School site. I found an old VHS copy called “Where Is The Friend’s Home?” at the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13,12,11],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-abbas-kiarostami","tag-film","tag-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/fluxus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/fluxus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/fluxus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/fluxus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/fluxus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/fluxus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/fluxus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/fluxus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/fluxus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}