[spectre] Courtisane Festival 2011

[Stoffel Debuysere]

Dear all,

The programme of the Courtisane Festival 2011 (March 30 – April 3,  
Gent - Belgium) is now online: www.courtisane.be.

In competition: works by Florence Aigner & Laurent Van Lancker, Thom  
Andersen, Herman Asselberghs, Ute Aurand, Neil Beloufa, Sofie Benoot,  
Mohamed Bourouissa, Robert Cambrinus, Gerard-Jan Claes & Olivia  
Rochette, Phil Collins, Thomas Comerford, Alexandra Cuesta, Raphaël  
Cuomo & Maria Iorio, Karel de Cock, Lluís Escartín, Jacques Faton &  
Alpha Sadou Gano, Pieter Geenen, Tao Gu, Inger Lise Hansen, Devin  
Horan, Khaled Jarrar, Lotte Knaepen, Laida Lertxundi, Rebecca Meyers,  
Miranda Pennell, Nicolas Provost, Samantha Rebello, Ben Rivers, Till  
Roeskens, Margaret Salmon, Peter Todd, Sarah Vanagt, Amir Yatziv.

On top of the yearly selection of recent film and video works by  
Belgian and international artists, Courtisane celebrates the work of  
several “Artists in Focus” : a committed activist filmmaker (Sylvain  
George), a poet of 16mm film (Robert Fenz) and a seminal avant-garde  
filmmaker (Robert Beavers). They will each present a selection of  
their own work as well as a compilation of works by other filmmakers  
that have influenced their practice. In the same context we will  
present at Vooruit two unique encounters of cinematographic ingenuity  
and singular music improvisation: Sylvain George & William Parker (31  
March) and Robert Fenz & Wadada Leo Smith (1 April).

“Film Socialisme” (Jean-Luc Godard), “After Empire” (Herman  
Asselberghs),  “Qu’ils reposent en révolte (des figures de  
guerre)” (Sylvain George), “Meditations on Revolution “ (Robert  
Fenz), ... Many of the titles in this year’s festival programme reveal  
a combative questioning of the dominant socio-political system, not  
only in terms of a radical philosophical and activist discours, but  
also artistically and cinematographically. The question of what  
“political cinema” can mean – and what it means to make cinema  
politically – is the implicit red thread that runs through the  
programme of Courtisane 2011.

Also in the programme: Martin Arnold installations, Baby Matinee,  
Disorients performance by Florence Aigner, Laurent Van Lancker,  
Sébastien Koeppel & Laszlo Umbreit, Andrei Ujica’s ‘Autobiography of  
Nicolae Ceausescu’, Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Film Socialisme’, and more.

The influential but rarely shown films of Robert Beavers will not only  
be screened at the Courtisane Festival but also at Cinematek in  
Brussels where a selective retrospective of his work will be presented  
the week following the festival.

Welcome!

The Courtisane team


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