by Jon Lackman | 30 March 2007 | Contemporary
The latest issue of Third Text includes an essay by Laura Mulvey on Kiarostami that is excerpted from her recent book, Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image: “Digital technology does not imply an inherent, teleological development from the old to the new, but rather varied opportunities and possibilities reminiscent of the now nearly forgotten technology of 16 mm. The cinema of 16 mm seemed at one time to herald a new cinematic intimacy and informality and new political and aesthetic possibilities. These lost hopes and aspirations return with digital technology and Kiarostami’s use of it might be within that tradition, once again alongside Rossellini and his delighted discovery of the little, hand-held, 16 mm camera.”
