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
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
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.
In his book exploring the cultural history of souvenirs, Rolf Potts discusses how such objects assume meaning through personal stories: Objects turn into memories with the stories they hold.
In this piece, Żmurko presents an exotic image of a harem chamber, replete with gleaming fabrics and scattered jewels, as a setting for the statuesquely beautiful body of an odalisque murdered “at the order of the padishah”.
The Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation’s Orientalist Painting Collection includes two children’s portraits that are often featured in exhibitions on the second floor of the Pera Museum. These portraits both date back to the early 20th century, and were made four years apart. One depicts Prince Abdürrahim Efendi, son of Sultan Abdulhamid II, while the figure portrayed on the other is Nazlı, the daughter of Osman Hamdi Bey.
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 19:00
Friday 10:00 - 22:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
The museum is closed on Mondays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
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