English
Until the 19th of February, 2012 the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona exhibits “All the letters. Filmed Correspondence”, which addresses the issue of communication between filmmakers by using film as a support resource to the epistolary relationship. The exhibition is curated by George Ball and is produced by the CCCB, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco in Mexico, the Spanish Cultural Action and La Casa Encendida in Madrid with the collaboration of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
All letters is an experience that brings together some correspondence work framed in filmmaking. This is an experimental communication format that takes place between directors, despite being located far away geographically. Their connection lies in the willingness to share ideas and thoughts on everything that inspire their work and provide new insights into the language of film.
In the dialog through this correspondence experience, the directors who are part of this exhibition raise their views, where it is possible to find similarities and differences. All this dialogue is organized around a mutual interest environment, with important reflections on each of the correspondences.
Among the epistolary exchanges are the filmmakers: Jose Luis Guerin from Barcelona, who exchanges work with Jonas Mekas from New York, Isaki Lacuesta from Girona, with Naomi Kawase from Nara, Alberto Serra from Banyotes, with Lisandro Alonso from Buenos Aires, Victor Erice from Madrid with Abbas Kiarostami from Tehran, Jaime Rosales from Madrid with Wang Bing from Shaanxi and Fernando Eimbcke from Mexico City, with So Yong Kim from New York.
Jose Luis Guerin is a film director. His filmography is mainly based on a poetic and reflective look on conflicting aspects of society. His development as a filmmaker was fundamental in the period of the Spanish political transition and his first film Los Motivos de Berta was awarded at the Forum in Berlin, although it had no effect on the number of people in its premier.
Jonas Mekas is a Lithuanian born-American one of the most famous experimental filmmakers. He began in the theater and learned the Stanislavsky method in a refugee camp during the Second World War. Together with his brother Adolfas, he immigrated to the United States in 1949 and studied with the German abstractionist Hans Richter. In 1962 he founded The Film Makers cooperative, linking himself to pop art. His filmography is much appreciated for being considered an extraordinary aesthetic proposal.
Certainly this art project gathers, in an exchange of letters, a group of directors in line with their peers in the world who open its gates to experimentation together. That´s why this simultaneous presentation of these pieces of letters juxtaposed in a common exhibition space that creates an intimate dialogue and reflection.
For more information http://www.cccb.org/es/exposicio-todas_las_cartas-38071
Spent some time this fall in apartments in Barcelona and enjoy good cultural landscapes that are in theaters, as this exchange of letters by filmmakers through film.
Translated by: Hans
