Correspondences – Six Cinematic Letter Exchanges

Initiated by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona under the title of “Todas las cartas: Correspondencias fílmicas”, six cinematic letter exchanges were produced between 2005 and 2011, each of them between a Hispanic filmmaker and a geographically far-flung international colleague. The six pairs are made up of various renowned representatives of contemporary filmmaking: José Luis Guerín (Barcelona) and Jonas Mekas (New York), Isaki Lacuesta (Girona) and Naomi Kawase (Nara), Albert Serra (Banyoles) and Lisandro Alonso (Buenos Aires), Víctor Erice (Madrid) and Abbas Kiarostami (Teheran), Jaime Rosales (Madrid) and Wang Bing (Shaanxi), Fernando Eimbcke (Mexico City) and So Yong Kim (Pusan/New York). The result is a series of essay films that gathers together the diversity of different cinematographic signatures present in today’s cinema. We are very happy to be able to show all six correspondences thanks to the support of the Instituto Cervantes and that we can welcome filmmaker José Luis Guerín to Arsenal for the opening.