The Complete Letters

• Curator/s
  Jordi Balló

Organized by:

Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona

Production:
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco (México DF), Acción Cultural Española (ACE), La Casa Encendida (Madrid)

With the collaboration of:
Department of Culture of the Generalitat (Government) of Catalonia

The exhibition The Complete Letters features epistolary works defined by cinematographic creation. This is an experimental communication format used between pairs of film directors. Although each director is situated in a location geographically distant from that of their partner, they are united by their willingness to share ideas and reflections on all that motivates their work. Within this space of freedom, the directors featured in the exhibition examine their affinities and differences, within an environment of mutual respect and simultaneity of interests and with notable formal variants established in each of the correspondences.

The works that we present in The Complete Letters constitute an innovative cinematographic format, where filmed ideas are exchanged between great dyads of filmmakers: José Luis Guerin (Barcelona) and Jonas Mekas (New York); Isaki Lacuesta (Girona) and Naomi Kawase (Nara); Albert Serra (Banyoles) and Lisandro Alonso (Buenos Aires); Víctor Erice (Madrid) and Abbas Kiarostami (Teheran); Jaime Rosales (Madrid) and Wang Bing (Shaanxi); and Fernando Eimbcke (Mexico City) and So Yong Kim (Pusan/New York).

This exchange of video-letters responds to a reality: a filmmaker’s homeland is being on the same wavelength as other filmmakers around the world. In this film continent, creators always pay attention to works by others. The simultaneous and juxtaposed presentation of these filmed correspondences in a single exhibition area provides a space for dialogue and reflexive intimacy.

• José Luis Guerin and Jonas Mekas, in conversation

  20 October 2011 Courses and debates

• 10 November 2011, 17 November 2011 Friends CCCB

• The Complete Letters

  Filmed Correspondence

  From 27 April 2011 to 30 August 2011 Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco (México DF)

• Todas las cartas (The Complete Letters)

  Filmed Correspondence

  From 19 September 2011 to 30 October 2011 La Casa Encendida (Madrid)

• The Complete Letters

  Filmed Correspondence

  From 24 November 2011 to 12 February 2012 Las Cigarreras Cultura Contemporánea

• 12 January 2012 Biblioteca Xavier Benguerel

• Interview: Jonas Mekas, man of film

  2 of November 2011 - Lucia CalvoVEUS CCCB