A collection of poetic video letters/postcards/essays exchanged between Víctor Erice and Abbas Kiarostami in 2006 and 2007.
“As luck would have it, Abbas Kiarostami and Víctor Erice were born a week apart, the first in Iran (in Tehran) on 22 June 1940, the second in Spain (in Karrantza) on 30 June 1940. Their personal history will determine that both men will become filmmakers—Kiarostami by taking a circuitous path; Erice via the more classical route of a film school. Both are now internationally renowned filmmakers and have become, in their respective countries, leading lights for a younger generation of directors, who consider them to be exemplary ‘big brothers’ and amicable ‘masters’.” – Alain Bergala (2006)
“Erice begins by reflecting on his own work, but the blank, Warholian response from Kiarostami (filming the hide of a cow) almost (rumor has it) stopped the whole game stone cold dead. Erice regrouped, realizing that the only way to hook his interlocutor was to address his work; the result—a documentary-essay on a class of Spanish schoolchildren watching and discussing Where is the Friend's Home? (1987)—is heartbreaking stuff. Kiarostami is then captured: he takes a quince from a tree, in homage to Erice, and sends it improbably down and down a stream—which Erice then puts on a cell-phone for a rural friend to look at and comment on—and so on and on it goes.” – Adrian Martin, Artlink (2009)