At the turn of the 21st century, Kiarostami decided to change from 35 mm film production to digital video. The first film where he used this technology was "ABC Africa", which was compiled from footage shot with two small digital video cameras, material originally gathered for the purposes of research and scouting. Referring to digital cinema Kiarostami said: "Digital video is within the reach of anybody, like a ballpoint pen. I'd even dare to predict that within the next decade, we'll see a burst of interest in film-making as a consequence of the impact of video".