Pera Film’s October program Cinematic Correspondences: From One Director to Another entails five cinematic letter exchanges that were produced between 2005 and 2011, each of them between a Hispanic filmmaker and a geographically far-flung international colleague. The five pairs are made up of various renowned representatives of contemporary filmmakers: José Luis Guerín (Barcelona) and Jonas Mekas (New York), Isaki Lacuesta (Girona) and Naomi Kawase (Nara), Albert Serra (Banyoles) and Lisandro Alonso (Buenos Aires), Jaime Rosales (Madrid) and Wang Bing (Shaanxi), Fernando Eimbcke (Mexico City) and So Yong Kim (Pusan/New York). This program was initiated by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona and resulted in a series of essay films that gathers together the diversity of different cinematographic signatures present in today’s cinema.
As part of this program director Albert Serra will be in conversation. Born in 1975 Catalan director Albert Serra had two of his previous films Honor of the Knights (2006) and Birdsong (2008) screened at Cannes Film Festival.
October 17
20:00 Correspondence José Luis Guerín – Jonas Mekas
October 18
14:00 Correspondence Albert Serra – Lisandro Alonso
19:00 Correspondence Isaki Lacuesta – Naomi Kawase
Correspondence Fernando Eimbcke – So Yong Kim
October 19
15:00 Correspondence José Luis Guerín – Jonas Mekas
16:00 Correspondence Isaki Lacuesta – Naomi Kawase
Correspondence Fernando Eimbcke – So Yong Kim
18:00 Correspondence Jaime Rosales – Wang Bing
October 24
Correspondence Jaime Rosales – Wang Bing
19:00 Correspondence Albert Serra – Lisandro Alonso
October 30
Correspondence Isaki Lacuesta – Naomi Kawase
Correspondence Fernando Eimbcke – So Yong Kim
October 31
Correspondence Jaime Rosales – Wang Bing
20:00 Correspondence José Luis Guerín – Jonas Mekas
October 17
20:00 Correspondence José Luis Guerín – Jonas Mekas
October 18
14:00 Correspondence Albert Serra – Lisandro Alonso
19:00 Correspondence Isaki Lacuesta – Naomi Kawase
Correspondence Fernando Eimbcke – So Yong Kim
October 24
18:00 Correspondence Jaime Rosales – Wang Bing
19:00 Correspondence Albert Serra – Lisandro Alonso
October 30
19:00 Correspondence Isaki Lacuesta – Naomi Kawase
Correspondence Fernando Eimbcke – So Yong Kim
October 31
19:00 Correspondence Jaime Rosales – Wang Bing
20:00 Correspondence José Luis Guerín – Jonas Mekas
Program Trailer
Cinematic Correspondences: From One Director to Another entails five cinematic letter exchanges that were produced between 2005 and 2011, each of them between a Hispanic filmmaker and a geographically far-flung international colleague. The five pairs are made up of various renowned representatives of contemporary filmmakers.
Pera Museum, in collaboration with Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), is one of the main venues for this year’s 15th Istanbul Biennial from 16 September to 12 November 2017. Through the biennial, we will be sharing detailed information about the artists and the artworks.
I remembered a game as I was waiting in the passenger lounge for the ferry to arrive just a few minutes ago. A game we used to play at home when I was young, in my country that is very far away from here, a relic from the distant past; I don’t even remember how we used to play it. The kind of game that makes me feel a thousand times lonelier than I already am among the crowd waiting to get on the ferry.
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