ABSTRACT
Recalling the films of Abbas Kiarostami the term "humanism" may cross our mind with a gentle obtrusiveness. Quite without pathos, of course, but also without embarrassment. The explicitly humanist and the posthumanist, philosophy does of course have a third position to offer, specifically the philosophy following on from the Second World War. Close-Up begins with a scene which is strongly evocative of the gestic character of the entire film. Close-Up reveals its dramatic principle in its first scene. It is that of the non-dramatic, which is not the same thing as the undramatic or every day. In a downright de-constructivistic manner, the film eliminates all drama. Music is a thought which can be felt and, in principle, danced; it is a mental movement through time, to which one can also move physically-structured by emotion-through space. Benjamin uses the term aura to describe a specific relationship of proximity and distance to a perceived object.
