The Relationship between Art and Life in the Feature Film Gabbeh, by Mohsen Makhmalbaf: The Bakhtinian Perspective on the Scene

Abstract

This article aims to conduct an analysis of the feature film Gabbeh (1996), by Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, promoting reflections that may, to some extent, contribute to the deepening of questions that involve the field of art and life. The theoretical-epistemological bases that support this analysis are the Bakhtinian studies in dialogue with the Vygotskian perspective. The analysis starts from some scenes of the film and seeks to establish a relationship between some Bakhtinian concepts, such as dialogism, chronotope, polyphony, outsideness, and the cinematographic art in question.