Deckchair Cinema 2024 Hosted by The Polygon Gallery
VIVA is proud to sponsor the screening of Kiarostami’s Close-Up at the Deckchair Cinema hosted by the Polygon. We are thrilled to share this acclaimed film by the celebrated Iranian director, Abbas Kiarostami, with the community. This outdoor event is scheduled for August 8 at 8:45 on the pier outside the polygon Gallery.
HAPPENING ON AUGUST 8, 2024 FROM 7:00 PM TO 11:00 PM
DECKCHAIR CINEMA: CLOSE-UP
“Close-Up is often seen not only as a turning-point in [Abbas Kiarostami’s] career – it cemented his confidence in blurring the distinction between ‘documentary’ and ‘fiction’ – but as the film most representative of his aims and achievements.” - Sight and Sound
Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is 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. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, Close-up has resonated with viewers around the world.
Close-Up
Dir: Abbas Kiarostami
98 mins
1992
Rated G
The film starts at 8:45 pm
Persian with English subtitles
Deckchair Cinema 2024 outdoor film screenings begin June 27 in front of The Polygon Gallery and happen every Thursday at sunset until August 29. Presenting Sponsor: Rogers Communications.
The Polygon Gallery presents Deckchair Cinema—an outdoor summer film series taking place on Cates Deck, located on the waterfront directly in front of the Gallery at the foot of Lonsdale Avenue. Admission to Deckchair Cinema is by donation, courtesy of BMO Financial Group, and includes access to the Gallery’s summer exhibition Anti-Icon: Apokalypsis (https://thepolygon.ca/exhibition/anti-icon-apokalypsis/) (On view July 12 – September 29).
Now in its third year, Deckchair Cinema treats audiences to a summer of al fresco film screenings. Hosted for 10 Thursdays, the screenings commence at sundown and are complemented by music and entertainment leading up to curtain time. The event's concession stand will offer drinks from local breweries, which can be enjoyed on Cates Deck, a public space zoned for alcohol consumption.