In recent years Erice has turned to the art of the short film, crafting several works for omnibus features that are nonetheless? able to stand on their own. A family of Spanish farmers attempt to help a sick child in Lifeline, part of 2002’s Godard/Kaurismaki/Herzog/et al.
Spain, 1943, the end of the civil war: in a rural village made of little more than train tracks, mud, and sky live two sisters, the quiet, moon-eyed Ana (Ana Torrent) and the older, confident Isabel (Isabel Telleria).
A young girl comes of age amid the long silences and shadows of her family’s wintry northern exile in Erice’s long-awaited follow-up to The Spirit of the Beehive, which continues that work’s exploration of childhood fantasies and adult realities in a similarly hushed, becalmed tone.
Created for an innovative museum exhibition in Barcelona and Paris that paired the works of filmmakers Víctor Erice and Abbas Kiarostami, Correspondences is composed of ten “filmed letters” between the two great masters.
The Quince Tree Sun is an exquisite, lingering portrait of the Spanish realist painter Antonio López García as he paints a single work: a picture of a quince tree in his backyard, which he planted years ago and which now stimulates thoughts on light, painting, and process; on death; on w
In eleventh-century Japan, two children are kidnapped and sold into slavery while their mother, Tamiki, withers away on a distant island, dreaming only of being reunited with them.
