" Contemplative Absence: Sacred Experience in Abbas Kiarostami’s The Wind Will Carry Us and the Aesthetics of Slow Cinema"
Journal of Religion & Film April 1, 2026 Hessam Abedini
This article examines how Abbas Kiarostami’s The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) creates sacred experience through systematic absence within contemporary slow cinema aesthetics. While previous scholarship has focused on religious content in spiritual cinema, this analysis demonstrates how formal techniques—particularly strategic concealment and extended duration—generate contemplative states without...