Kiarostami & Deleuze: The Path, a Metaphor of a Philosophical Journey

Abbas Kiarostami's modern films feature a movement-image of the path as a narrative and stylistic motif. This article is concerned with a philosophical aspect of Kiarostami's modern cinema by examining what the movement-image of the path is in accordance with Gilles Deleuze's cinematic-philosophical theory. This includes a new interpretation of concepts such as movement, time, and space.