{"id":13310,"date":"2019-12-29T21:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T02:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13310"},"modified":"2019-12-28T13:00:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T18:00:32","slug":"24-frames-2017-abbas-kiarostami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13310","title":{"rendered":"24 Frames (2017, Abbas Kiarostami)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy to see that much of the motion in these motion-paintings involves snow or animals &#8211; in fact, when there are humans in a scene, they&#8217;re the only things that don&#8217;t come alive.  The visuals sometimes remind of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11585\">The Mill and the Cross<\/a><\/em>, and sometimes you can&#8217;t tell they&#8217;re based on still photos at all.<\/p>\n<p><em>Here&#8217;s me, pointlessly taking stills of motion versions of stills:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image19\/24frames1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Crows are prominent.  Rare is the scene without any birds in it.  The movie is as attuned to outdoor bird behavior as I am, always wondering what the crows and ducks and sandpipers are up to.  Whenever there are birds seen through a window we hear opera.  Not all the animals survive&#8230; tense music in frame 5 before a deer gets shot, and there are more bird fatalities in this than in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13276\">The Lighthouse<\/a><\/em>.  In the most narrative scene, a seagull gets shot and another mourns him.  Great ending: a Disney-sounding song, a sleeping motion designer, a <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5914\">classic film<\/a> on an iMac rendering at about 1fps, the wind in the trees outside.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image19\/24frames2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy to see that much of the motion in these motion-paintings involves snow or animals &#8211; in fact, when there are humans in a scene, they&#8217;re the only things that don&#8217;t come alive. The visuals sometimes remind of The Mill and the Cross, and sometimes you can&#8217;t tell they&#8217;re based on still photos at all. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,85,239,13,233,428],"class_list":["post-13310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-abbas-kiarostami","tag-birds","tag-criterion","tag-digital-video","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13367,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13310\/revisions\/13367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}