Impressionist Light in Abbas Kiarostami's Cinema (A Study of the Film The Wind Will Carry Us Away)

This is an essay on cinema as a multifaceted art form and its relationship to other arts, particularly the visual arts. The text explains that cinema depends on literature, music, and visual arts, especially painting. It establishes that the image is cinema's most important element, drawing on visual arts traditions. The essay argues that visual elements and qualities form the foundation of visual language, and that cinema constructs its images through the deliberate arrangement of visual elements according to principles of visual language. It compares the film frame to a painted canvas in how it conveys the affective power of the image through composition.