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Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences (2007)

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Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences

Victor Erice/Abbas Kiarostami | Spain | 2007 | Unclassified (15+)
Film

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.

Format: DCP
Language: Spanish and Farsi with English subtitles
Source: Nautilus Films
Courtesy: Nautilus Films
Runtime: 96 mins

Event duration

96 mins

Rating

Unclassified (15+)

Where

Cinema 1, Level 2
ACMI, Fed Square

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