24 Frames is Abbas Kiarostami’s last film, made during the last period of his life (2015-2016) and distributed a few months after his death (2017-2018). It consists of twenty-four episodes of only few minutes each, where a static image (a painting or a photo) is progressively animated through computer graphics. The frames, mainly dedicated to natural environments and small scenes of animal life, retain a theoretic content that this essay aims at making explicit because they refer directly or indirectly to certain ‘classical’ theories of film studies, from Gunning and Gaudreault on the Early Cinema to Bazin and Pasolini on cinema and life, from Barthes’ Camera lucida to the most recent studies on remediation, convergence and intermediality. It is precisely this last concept of inter-mediality that undergoes the most interesting impacts as the film problematizes the idea that there exists a ‘natural’ permeability between different expression systems and a real integration between different media. Upon the not too limited surface of an image (in motion), it is actually possible that photography and cinema, or the analogical and the digital or also the monstrative and the narrative dimensions coexist. They coexist however as a struggling couple, without too much dialogue, where one of the two sometimes tends to erode the space of signification of the other.

24 Frames è l’ultimo film di Abbas Kiarostami, realizzato nell’ultimo periodo della sua vita (2015-2016) e distribuito alcuni mesi dopo la sua morte (2017-2018). Si tratta di ventiquattro episodi di pochi minuti l’uno, nei quali un’immagine statica (un quadro o una fotografia) viene progressivamente animata dalla computer graphica. Prevalentemente dedicati ad ambienti naturali e a piccole scene di vita animale, i frames conservano un portato teorico che il saggio cerca di esplicitare, poiché richiamano direttamente o indirettamente alcuni contributi ‘classici’ dei film studies, da quelli di Gunning e Gaudreault sul cinema dei primi tempi a quelli di Bazin e Pasolini sui rapporti tra cinema e vita, dal Barthes de La camera chiara fino agli studi più recenti su rimediazione, convergenza e intermedialità. È proprio quest’ultimo concetto di inter-medialità a subire i contraccolpi più interessanti perché il film problematizza l’idea che esista una ‘naturale’ porosità tra i sistemi espressivi o una reale integrazione tra i media. Nella superficie non così limitata di una immagine (in movimento) è possibile infatti che fotografia e cinema, così come analogico e digitale, o ancora narrativo e mostrativo, convivano, sì, ma come una coppia in crisi, senza grande dialogo o erodendo talvolta l’uno lo spazio di significazione dell’altro.

24 Frames di Abbas Kiarostami e la condizione inter-mediale

Dalla Gassa Marco
2021-01-01

Abstract

24 Frames is Abbas Kiarostami’s last film, made during the last period of his life (2015-2016) and distributed a few months after his death (2017-2018). It consists of twenty-four episodes of only few minutes each, where a static image (a painting or a photo) is progressively animated through computer graphics. The frames, mainly dedicated to natural environments and small scenes of animal life, retain a theoretic content that this essay aims at making explicit because they refer directly or indirectly to certain ‘classical’ theories of film studies, from Gunning and Gaudreault on the Early Cinema to Bazin and Pasolini on cinema and life, from Barthes’ Camera lucida to the most recent studies on remediation, convergence and intermediality. It is precisely this last concept of inter-mediality that undergoes the most interesting impacts as the film problematizes the idea that there exists a ‘natural’ permeability between different expression systems and a real integration between different media. Upon the not too limited surface of an image (in motion), it is actually possible that photography and cinema, or the analogical and the digital or also the monstrative and the narrative dimensions coexist. They coexist however as a struggling couple, without too much dialogue, where one of the two sometimes tends to erode the space of signification of the other.
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