Víctor Erice Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences 10. Escrito en el agua ( Erice Spain) VE to AK, may 2007

Created for an innovative museum exhibition in Barcelona and Paris that paired the works of Víctor Erice and Abbas Kiarostami, Correspondences is composed of ten filmed letters between the two great filmmakers. As in their other films, children, imagination, and the creative process take center stage; in one, the young grandchildren of the painter from Erices The Quince Tree Sun show off their own unique styles, while in another nineyearolds in a rural Spanish classroom watch Kiarostamis Where Is the Friends Home Kiarostami follows an escaped quince from the Spanish film to a neighborhood in Iran in one sequence, and plays with artistic perspective in another. Modern messages in a bottle (Miguel Marias), these notsosimple video letters recognize no international stamps or borders, only the artistic and personal links between individuals.