Members’ Preview Celebration Schedule:
Friday, October 14
5-8 pm | Light Bites and Cash Bar Available | Museum Lobby
5 pm | Conversations with Kiarostami Book Signing by Godfrey Cheshire | Museum Store
6 pm | Exclusive Lecture by Godfrey Cheshire, Film Scholar | Noble Theater
7 pm | Taste of Cherry Film Screening (99 minutes) with Special Introduction and Discussion | Noble Theater
8 pm | All Galleries Close
Gather with OKCMOA members to celebrate the opening of Kiarostami: Beyond the Frame! Be among the very first to experience this immersive, multimedia exhibition of works by acclaimed Iranian filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist Abbas Kiarostami and join us in the Noble Theater for an exclusive lecture and screening of Kiarostami’s Palme d’Or-winning Taste of Cherry. Seating in the Noble Theater is first-come, first-served with a priority seating section reserved for Film Society members. Click here or call 405-278-8237 to reserve tickets to this exciting preview event!
OKCMOA members are also welcome to preview the new exhibition between 10 am-5 pm on Friday, October 14. Click here to reserve members-only daytime preview tickets. The exhibition opens to the public on Saturday, October 15.
Not a member? Guests can attend the Members’ Preview Celebration for $24.95 per person (plus tax; admission passes not valid). If you decide to join on-site, Admissions Desk staff will apply the cost of this event ticket towards your new membership! Click here to learn more about OKCMOA membership levels and benefits.
About the Exhibition:
Kiarostami: Beyond the Frame is a multimedia, retrospective survey of artworks by acclaimed Iranian filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist Abbas Kiarostami. This exhibition reveals a singular artistic vision and a wide-ranging body of work nearly a half-century in the making, from his early children’s films and graphic design work to his immersive large-scale photographs and installations of his twenty-first-century video art.
This exhibition features the world premiere of the famous Regardez-moi portfolio, Kiarostami’s series of photographs depicting visitors to the Louvre and other museums. In conjunction with the exhibition and in memory of Jeanne Hoffman Smith, visitors can join us every Thursday at 7:30 pm throughout the run of the exhibition for the Abbas Kiarostami Film Series. These weekly screenings of Kiarostami’s feature films are included with Art After 5 admission and are free for members!
Kiarostami: Beyond the Frame was organized by the Oklahoma City Museum of Art in association with The Kiarostami Foundation. The exhibition is on view October 15, 2022-April 9, 2023. Click here to learn more.
About the Film:
Taste of Cherry will screen in the Noble Theater at 7 pm, immediately following the lecture. No separate film ticket is required; seating is first-come, first-served with a priority seating section reserved for Film Society members.
“Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry is an emotionally complex meditation on life and death. Middle-aged Mr. Badii (Homayoun Ershadi) drives through the hilly outskirts of Tehran, searching for someone to rescue or bury him. Along the way, he picks up three passengers, all from different walks of life, eliciting different views on mortality and individual choice.” –Janus Films
Abbas Kiarostami | 1997 | In Persian with English subtitles | 99 minutes | NR | DCP
About Godfrey Cheshire:
An award-winning film critic based in New York, Godfrey Cheshire is known as the leading expert on Iranian cinema among U.S. film critics. He has written about the subject for publications including the New York Times, Variety, Newsweek, Film Comment and Cineaste. He is a co-founder of the Iranian Film Festival New York and the author of Conversations with Kiarostami (2019, available for purchase in the Museum Store with book signings on Friday, October 14 at 5 pm and Saturday, October 15 at 1 pm) and the forthcoming In the Time of Kiarostami: Writings on Iranian Cinema.
© The Kiarostami Foundation
