Talk 'The Road to Roeg'

Every adventure, every road has a beginning. Take your first steps on the Roeg Road during our revelatory and introductory talk The Road to Roeg. Lecturer Anke Brouwers, director and screenwriter Bert Scholiers and Classics curator Patrick Duynslaeger pave their way through the labyrinthine life and work of Nicolas Roeg, a visionary who jettisoned classical narrative structures and turned cinema into a sensory experience full of fragmentation, time jumps and visual bravado. Together, the trio explores what makes Roeg such an unforgettable and fascinating director. Why does he belong to the pantheon of Britain's greatest directors? How did he evolve from a quirky cameraman into the legendary mad poet behind films such as Don't Look Now, The Man Who Fell to Earth and Walkabout? And what is his legacy for the current generation of young filmmakers? All interesting stops on The Road to Roeg.

Anke Brouwers is a film history lecturer at HoGent/KASK School of Arts and also works as a freelance editor and film journalist. In 2021, she published her book Mooi zijn en zwijgen. De machtige vrouwen van de Amerikaanse stille film ("Be pretty and stay silent. The powerful women of the American silent film").

Bert Scholiers is a screenwriter and director. He co-wrote films such as Smoorverliefd and Sprakeloos and made his directorial debut with the film Charlie en Hannah gaan uit, the closing film of FFG2017. Together with Jonas Govaerts, he created the series F*** You Very, Very Much.

Patrick Duynslaegher was a film critic for Knack for nearly forty years. From 2011 tot 2018, he was the creative director of Film Fest Gent, where he is currently still active as the curator of the Classics programme and as the host of the FFG Talkies.

Practical

Brussels - Patrick's Choice

• Monday 6 October | 19:00
• CINEMATEK
• join us at CINEMATEK for Patrick's Choice, followed by a screening of Nicolas Roeg's Castaway. Based on a true story, Roeg takes you to a deserted island where a London-based writer decides to spend a year with an unknown young woman. What starts as a romantic ideal image, slowly turns into a psychologically charged showdown between two completely different people.
• Tickets are available from 1 September at Cinematek.be.