Shaped entirely by threshold events, Kiarostami’s oeuvre challenges how the margins are represented. The Wind Will Carry Us and A Taste of Cherry are accounts of moments linked to death, the improbable time at the far reaches of the twilight of life. He designs each film to evoke mortality; he creates lifeless onscreen images, pushes into boundary areas, and highlights forms that are ephemeral, faded and shimmeringly poetic.