Correspondencias (Correspondence) brings together filmmakers from different points in history through films which converse with one another like audiovisual letters filmed by certain directors for others.

Correspondencias (Correspondence) brings together filmmakers from different points in history through films which converse with one another like audiovisual letters filmed by certain directors for others.
01/31/2018
In addition to running the film sessions, Punto de Vista will also be publishing a book containing unique, unexpected correspondence between filmmakers from different periods.

Correspondencias (Correspondence) brings together filmmakers from different points in history through films which converse with one another like audiovisual letters filmed by certain directors for others.

In addition to running the film sessions, Punto de Vista will also be publishing a book containing unique, unexpected correspondence between filmmakers from different periods.

With Correspondencias, the curator Francisco Algarín and the artistic director of Punto de Vista, Garbiñe Ortega, have woven an atemporal thread which travels from the past to the future and returns from tomorrow to yesterday, a dialogue between films ‘which have always been apart, but which, now they have been united, would appear to have been destined to end up together.’ Films which, as though they were letters, reveal a dreamlike dialogue between the Lumière brothers and Robert Beavers, Ute Aurand and Warrend Sonbert or Robert Fenz and Marjorie Keller. Ultimately, this programme is a collection of imaginary correspondence with which to ‘access non-linearly and non-categorically, from a privileged standpoint, knowledge of another possible history of cinema.’

Garbiñe Ortega and Francisco Algarín explain that they created Correspondencias as though they were editing a film, ‘building blocks around ideas, topics and forms to create imaginary dialogues: relationships hitherto unsuspected and variable principles or dialectical collisions which occur when materials which go together are placed side by side.’

Correspondencias will be screened in Pamplona’s Baluarte from the 5th to the 10th of March in six theme-based sessions: affective constellations; offerings; parents, children and godchildren; postcards and reframing; travel and songs, and writing.

The publication which the International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra - Punto de Vista will be releasing this year completes Correspondencias with a collection of surprising letters that reveal secret friendships (Louis Lumière and George Méliès), unknown collaborations (Orson Welles and Robert J. Flaherty) and projects which without these letters would never have been documented (Pasolini inviting Jacques Tati to take part in Porcile). Missives in a class of their own which reveal another history of film, one which has not been told until now.

This is the programme of Correspondencias, Películas como Cartas (Correspondence, Films as Letters):

PROGRAMME 1.EMOTIONAL CONSTELLATIONS
GALAXIE
. Gregory Markopoulos. 1966. 16mm. 82', sound.
TRT: 82'

PROGRAMME 2 - PARENTS, CHILDREN AND GODCHILDREN
LA PETITE FILLE ET SON CHAT
. Lumière brothers. 1900, 35 mm . [Video screening], 1’, silent.
HAPPY BEES. Margaret Tait. 1955. 16 mm. 15’. sound.
SHE/VA. Marjorie Keller. 1973. 16 mm. 3’. silent.
FRANZ, Ute Aurand, 1994, 16 mm, 5’, sound.
FIRST WEEKS,Robert Beavers, 2013, 16 mm, 5’, sound.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Jonathan Schwartz. 2010, 16 mm, 7’, sound.
FRAGMENTOS AMOROSOS. Jeannette Muñoz. 2018. 6’. silent.
WALDEN. Reel #4. Jonas Mekas. 1969. 26’.. sound.
TRT: 68 min.

PROGRAMME 3 - POSTCARDS AND REFRAMING
CRUCE POSTAL
. Valentina Alvarado, 16 mm, 4’.
PASADENA FREEWAY STILLS.Gary Beydler 16 mm, 2’, silent.
DIMINISHED FRAME. Robert Beavers. 24’.
(nostalgia). Hollis Frampton. 38’.
HAND HELD DAY. Gary Beydler. 16 mm. 6’.
MIRROR. Robert Morris, 1971, 16mm, 9’, silent.
TRT: 79 min

PROGRAMME 4. OFFERINGS
BOCAL AUX POISSONS ROUGE. Lumière brothers. 1895. 35 mm. [Video screening]. 1’. silent.
OFRENDA.Claudio Caldini. 1978, Super 8, 4’, silent.
CORRESPONDENCE. Robert Fenz. 2011, 16 mm. 30’. silent.
FOR YOU.Peter Todd, 2000, 16 mm, 2’, silent.
LETTERS. Dorothy Wiley. 1972. 16 mm. 11’. sound.
FOR CHRISTIAN. Luke Fowler. 2017. 16 mm. 6’. sound.
ENVÍO 1. PARA UTE AURAND. 2005, 16 mm. Jeannette Muñoz. 1’. silent.
HOURS FOR JEROME. Nathaniel Dorsky. 1966-70/82. 16 mm. 18fps. 45’. silent.
TRT: 70’

PROGRAMME 5. JOURNEYS AND SONGS
SONG OF AVIGNON
. Jonas Mekas. 1998. 16 mm. 8’, sound.
BOUQUETS 11-20.Rose Lowder. 2005-2009. 16 mm. 14’.
VON EINEM SPAZIERGANG FROM A WALK. Helga Fanderl. 1991. Super 8, 3’, silent.
BOLOGNA-SKIZZE. SKETCH OF BOLOGNA. Helga Fanderl. 2001. Super 8, 1’. silent.
ZIEGEN GOATS. Helga Fanderl. 1993. Super 8, 15’’. silent.
TAMBURINE UND TANZ TAMBOURINES AND DANCE. Helga Fanderl. 1995. Super 8, 3’. silent.
STADT DER TOTEN NECROPOLIS. Helga Fanderl. 1998. Super 8, 3’. silent.
FISCHERBOOTE FISHING BOATS.Helga Fanderl. 2015. Super 8, 3’ silent.
LETTER TO D.H. IN PARIS, David Brooks, 1967, 16 mm, 4’, sound.
A DEPRESSION IN THE BAY OF BENGAL. Mark LaPore. 1996. 16mm. 28’. sound.
FRIENDLY WITNESS. Warren Sonbert. 1989, 16 mm., 22’ sound.
TRT: 104 min

PROGRAMME 6. WRITING
MESSAGES
. 1981-84. Guy Sherwin. 16 mm. 30’. silent.
INSTANTS. Hannes Schüpbach. 2012. 16 mm 16’. silent.
LA PLUIE. Marcel Broodthaers. 1969. 2’. silent.
THE GREAT ART OF KNOWING. David Gatten. 2004. 16 mm 37’. silent. 

PROGRAMME 7. REQUIEMS
FOREST OF BLISS. Robert Gardner. 1986, 16mm. 90'. silente.
CORRESPONDENCE. Robert Fenz. 2011, 16mm. 30’. silente.
TRT: 120'

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