Programme edition 2021
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Arnfield, Maximova, Jørgensen
A programme consisting of short films by Graeme Arnfield, Margarita Maximova and Stefan Kruse Jørgensen.
Autoficción (Autoficción)
Laida Lertxundi
Borrowing its title from a literary genre, the film acknowledges the indeterminacy of both fiction and the self. Noir elements are reduced to deadpan gestures under bright California sunlight.
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Best Year Ever
James N. Kienitz Wilkins
It is rather safe to say that very few people had their best year ever recently. James N. Kienitz Wilkins scans the pages of Richard Scarry’s children’s book classic Best Busy Year Ever with a 16 mm camera. Accompanied by Claude Debussy’s Petite Suite his captivating voice ...
Bisogno & Alqaddi, el Salem
A programme consisting of short films by Mouaad el Salem, Elettra Bisogno & Hazem Alqaddi.
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Caught In the Rain (Caught In the Rain)
Elie Maissin, Mieriën Coppens
“Three men are working on a construction site. The work has been interrupted by five months of imprisonment. The rain suddenly falls like the silence that precedes an eviction.”
City Hall (City Hall)
Frederick Wiseman
City government touches almost every aspect of our lives. Most of us are unaware of or take for granted services such as police, fire, sanitation, veterans affairs, elder support, parks, licensing of various professional activities, record keeping of birth, marriage and death as ...
A program curated by Alexander Horwath.This program is a somewhat surreal — or childlike — attempt at telling a story of the 20th century.
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De l'autre côté (From the Other Side)
Chantal Akerman
A documentary, a journey, an encounter with people. The footage was shot on the border between Mexico and the United States. In the desert, a screen stands between a Mexican and a North American mountain.
Defenestration
Bea Haut
Mixing up film and domestic structures, this film reaches beyond the frame, testing out access and escape, aperture and portal. The letraset sound also bumps its way across the frame boundary into the visible.
Deren, Paci, Haut, Giolo, Salmon
A programme consisting of short films by Maya Deren, Bea Haut, Adrian Paci, Eva Giolo and Margaret Salmon.
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Un film dramatique
Éric Baudelaire
First initiated in autumn 2015 as a documentary about the newly constructed Dora Maar junior high school in the Paris
suburb of Saint-Denis, the final film has transformed, over
regular shooting sessions with students from the school’s
film group, into an amorphous and ...
Flowers blooming in our throats
Eva Giolo
Flowers blooming in our throats is a cinematic poem in response to the worldwide pandemic of 2020.
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Guttu, Wilkins, Oren, Marcon
A programme consisting of short films by Ane Hjort Guttu, James N. Kienitz Wilkins, Ann Oren and Diego Marcon.
H
Haneda, Märhofer
A programme consisting of short films by Sumiko Haneda and Elke Marhöfer.
Home
Margaret Salmon
A short film depicting a woman putting her children to sleep, cleaning dishes, then dancing with a ghost. Shot on Super 16mm film, Home uses the physical material of film, and expressive bodies, to interpret emotional and imaginative relationships between daily tasks, gendered ...
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The Inheritance
Ephraim Asili
After nearly a decade exploring different facets of the African diaspora — and his own place within it — which resulted in his Diaspora Suite (Courtisane festival 2018), Ephraim Asili makes his feature-length debut with The Inheritance, an astonishing ensemble work set almost ...
K
Kevin Jerome Everson
Material, procedure and process: for the artist-filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson (Artist in Focus Courtisane festival 2020), these three words define the core of his artistic approach. It is with this approach, grounded in an early preference for minimalism and a background in ...
kitchen beets
Bea Haut
Never-ending tidying up turned into rhythmic beat and magic trick. A brief structural film cut to the rhythm of the gap between the optical sound head and the image.
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A Lack of Clarity
Stefan Kruse Jørgensen
Public light rips through the night of a modern city. Sleeplessness is lit up by a computer monitor in an urban space, where day and night are no longer distinguished. A nocturnal journey through a strongly lit and populated city as a filmmaker reflects upon the increase of new ...
Lago Gatún
Kevin Jerome Everson
Kevin Jerome Everson’s latest feature-length film, shot in black-and-white 16mm, is a minimalist odyssey that traverses the waterway between the Earth’s two great oceans.
Lertxundi, Strand
A programme consisting of short films by Laida Lertxundi and Chick Strand.
This film was sparked by the anarchist António Gonçalves Correia and his communal experiments.
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Maissin & Coppens, Lopushansky
A programme consisting of short films by Elie Maissin & Mieriën Coppens and Konstantin Lopushansky.
maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore
Sky Hopinka
In keeping with its title, maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore is constantly moving from the small-scale to the vast. The backbone of this first feature-length work by Sky Hopinka, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, are the conversations he conducts with two of his ...
Manifesto
Ane Hjort Guttu
Manifesto offers a portrait of an activist trojan horse operating within the confines of an art academy in Oslo, Norway. Ane Hjort Guttu delves into her own experience as a teacher to offer an incisive, accurate snapshot of life in the institution as it is experienced by the ...
May June July
Kevin Jerome Everson
The months of May, June, and July are represented with peonies, fireflies, and the year 2020. A rollerblader (Jahleel Gardner) traverses Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington D.C.
Meshes of the Afternoon
Maya Deren
Meshes of the Afternoon’s dream-like mise-en-scene, illogical narrative trajectory, fluid movement and ambient soundtrack invite a type of contemplative, perhaps even transcendental, involvement for the spectator.
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N.P
Lisa Spilliaert
In this silent film, set during one Japanese summer, four young people discover how one book unites them.
A new life, a new fight
Elettra Bisogno, Hazem Alqaddi
A meeting between two strangers sparks the desire to understand each other through the medium of cinema. They both simultaneously start recording their surroundings on camera and crafting the resulting footage.
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The Parents Room
Diego Marcon
A chirping bird bears bad tidings. Shot on 35mm and manipulated with CGI animation The Parents Room shows a nuclear family in its darkest hour.
Passage
Ann Oren
A foley artist creates sounds for a film starring a dressage horse and dissolves into his own imitation. The film reflects on the boundaries between the human and the animal as well as on fictional gender roles and their transcendence.
Pervading Animal
Graeme Arnfield
Whilst seeking the outer limits of the saturated image Graeme Arnfield tells the unearthed, peculiar story of AIDS, one of the earliest examples of ransomware.