Wednesday 17 March 2021
9pm - 10pm
Online on discord
Join the Film and Anthropology societies as we dive into this docufiction masterpiece by Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami!
Kiarostami is renowned for his inventive and transcendent cinema, but Close-Up might be 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.
Note:
To join the Discord server (https://discord.gg/m7Dpr2c), you will need to create a free account.
A link to the film will be posted there on Thursday the week before; you may choose to watch the film on your own time or join us for the live watch at 7pm! Do note that this film is subtitled, so you may need VLC to download and play it. Further instructions can be found on the Discord.
The post-screening discussion (9pm) will take place in a video channel on the server.
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