Minimal Means, Maximum Meaning: Iranian New Wave and the Poetics of Production, Fashion, and Set Design in Limited-Budget Cinema
Cinema wrought on a shoestring yet alive with symbolic vigor presents its own paradox: how scarcity of means can paradoxically yield superabundant meaning. Filmmakers from the Iranian New Wave, the Danish Dogme 95 collective, and Britain’s kitchen-sink realists each turned paucity into poetics. In these cinemas of necessity, modest dwellings, everyday garments and bare desert …