Correspondence Fernando Eimbcke – So Yong Kim

  • October 18, 2014 / 19:00
  • October 30, 2014 / 19:00

Mexico, USA, Germany, 2010–2011, HDV, color, 41’
Spanish and English with Turkish subtitles

Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke and So Yong Kim, representative of the new American independent cinema, send each other eight impressions from their daily routines and family lives. A leaf dancing in a spider's web, sunsets by the sea, photos of Eimbcke's father accompanied by his mother telling the story of his illness, conversations about childhood, pictures of babies and snails and views out of a window in Berlin. A minimalistic, private film.

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Correspondence Fernando Eimbcke – So Yong Kim

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