In July 2016, when the world awoke to the news of the passing of Abbas Kiarostami, many netizens, including the filmmaker Jafar Panahi, paid tribute to the late director by replacing their avatar on social media with a black screen. This “non-image” stood as a shroud of mourning, but it also contained within itself the very force of Kiarostami’s cinematic art and pedagogy of the image. Kiarostami encourages us to conceive of cinema not in terms of the passive reception of representation, based on the subject-object identification and the “dualism machines” of binary thinking, but rather invites us to approach images through a non-representational lens. In this presentation Shilina-Conte will argue that the black screen sequences in selected films by Kiarostami trigger a process of becoming-imperceptible. This happens through the transfiguration of the surrounding environment and the transformation of registers of perception informed by habitual modes of living and being, including modes of institutionalized reception of images. Her talk will address the deep affinities between Deleuzian philosophy and Kiarostami’s films, placing the latter’s cinema within the recent turn to non-representation and the reframing of regimes of visuality in film-philosophy and media studies at large.