
The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present
Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences
When
Wed 4 Jun 2025
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Born within a week of each other in 1940, Erice and Kiarostami created bodies of work that express a series of profound affinities that include a preoccupation with childhood, the experience of everyday life, the porous boundary between documentary and fiction, and the painterly, temporal and cinematic capacity of light.
Created for an exhibition exploring the “correspondences” between the two great artists, these ten video exchanges are like messages in a bottle, exploring deep, poetic connections across time, geography and history. Full of playful, knowing references to each other’s work, including a screening of Kiarostami’s Where is the Friend’s House? to a room of children in one of Erice’s most beautiful entries.
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Australia's longest-running film society, Melbourne Cinémathèque screens significant works of international cinema in the medium they were created, the way they would have originally screened.
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