Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi

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Minimalism, which has its origins in the 1960s and first became widespread in America, emerged in the field of painting and sculpture in art. Minimalism is an art movement that has shown unique uses in various branches of art and has generally emerged as a reaction to current trends. Minimalism is a trend where simplicity and objectivity are at the forefront. It is possible to come across various information on the first use of the term minimalism or minimal art in the art history literature. Richard Wollheim was the first to use this term in the sense that we encounter today, and he produced the concept of Minimal Art in 1961 to meet the meaning of art with reduced content. The word minimum, which Barbara Rose used while talking about a new art trend in her article titled ABC Art, is one of the first names accepted to give life to the concept of minimalism. The birth of minimalism was pioneered by movements such as realism, objectivism, functionalism and simplicity. The first cinema examples of this concept in the world and in our country were seen in the films of directors such as Robert Bresson, Yasujiro Ozu, Semih Kaplanoğlu, Nuri Bilge Ceylan. These movies are films with a minimal narrative structure. They were later analyzed retrospectively and associated with minimalism. There are two pioneers of this trend in Iran. Abbas Kiarostami and Sohrab Shaheed Salles. In this study, the definition of minimalism will be given, in general, minimalism in cinema, and after its projections in Iran, films Yek Ittifâḳ-I Sâde (A Simple Event) and Ḫâne-yi Dûst Kocast? (Where is My Friend's House?) will be evaluated in the context of minimalist cinema, as it contains minimalism by Sohrab Shaheed Salles and Abbas Kiarostami, who are the leading directors of Iran, with the qualitative content analysis method.