Abbas Kiarostami

Experience

Experience

Based on a story by Amir Naderi, who also cowrote the film, this slice of a fourteen-year-old boy’s life follows his efforts to fend for himself in the big city, working as a tea server and assistant in a photographer’s studio, running errands, and, briefly, exchanging glances with a pretty middle-class girl. With no music and little dialogue, and distinguished by its darkly elegant compositions, the film offers an impressionistic meditation on adolescent solitude.

Film Info

  • Iran
  • 1973
  • 56 minutes
  • Black & White
  • 1.85:1
  • Persian

Available In

Collector's Set

Eclipse Series 47: Abbas Kiarostami—Early Shorts and Features

Eclipse Series 47: Abbas Kiarostami—Early Shorts and Features

Blu-ray Box Set

3 Discs

$55.96

Experience
Cast
Parviz Naderi
Hossein Yarmohammadi
Andre Govalovish
Mostafa Tari
Firoozeh Habibi
Credits
Director
Abbas Kiarostami
Screenplay
Amir Naderi
Screenplay
Abbas Kiarostami
Story
Amir Naderi
Director of photography
Ali Reza Zarrindast
Producer
Abbas Kiarostami
Editor
Abbas Kiarostami
Editor
Mehdi Rajaian

Current

Abbas Kiarostami’s Early Shorts and Features: Poetic Solutions to Philosophical Problems
Abbas Kiarostami’s Early Shorts and Features: Poetic Solutions to Philosophical Problems

Though the first two decades of the Iranian filmmaker’s career have long been underappreciated, this fertile period yielded philosophical and restlessly innovative works that reinvigorated both documentary and narrative-fiction cinema.

By Ehsan Khoshbakht