Reading Response 2

1. I think Bransford meant by his claim spaces and places in Kiarostami's films are both real and imagined for a couple of reasons, one reasons would be the sounds in the film and images are real images and sounds that are realistic, meaning they correspond with each other and some one would be able to see them in the actual real world. An example would be a car, and its horn, that really happens and the sound from the car horn is realistic.
2. The function that comes from repetition of locations that serve both within individual films and between films are a fundamental method that Kiarostami uses to establish places. Bransford means by "visual rhymes" that Kirostami references his own work in his films not works of others. The analogy with poetry is the associative logic that links two shots together.
3.Kirostami stage most of his action outside because it is more realistic. Instead of having to make an indoor place work and make it look like it is being shot outside, he actually just shots the shoots outside. This way too he can focus his shots on the real public life, real people doing real things outdoors. It affects his visual style by leaving what happens indoors to the viewers imagination.
4. Regional fiction is related to Kirostami's conventions by understanding the place of where he is shooting, the location and the people who live in that area. (A little confused because the article goes onto say Kirostami's "view of the place of these villages within broader spatial context is rather bleak." -- the whole concept of regional fiction is the examination of rural spaces through an outsider, I get the audience or viewer can be the outsider, but wouldn't saying it was bleak take away from the exploration of spaces, because if something is bleak, that would make it boring to observe)
5. The logic, I think behind the quote is that he has not taken a stance in his films trying to persuade the audience to feel a certain way politically, rather he shows the real community, how the women are like in everyday life, what is going on with the boys at school, the problems they are facing- like their parents can not help them with their homework, making it harder for them to complete it at home, politically people would want to make a difference to help children get the best education they could get, some how fixing this problem of kids not being able to do their homework at home, since some of their parents can't read.