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Samah Hijawi : Aesthetics of the Political : Institutional Critique
hosted by KANAL Centre Pompidou January 2021
“Aesthetics of the Political” is an on-going project by Samah Hijawi that reflects on the strategies that artists use to transform political and critical ideas into aesthetic form in their work. Realised in different forms of encounter, the project focuses on creating intimate settings for in-depth conversations about where the political gesture and criticality are embedded in artistic practices that reflect on hegemonic power structures in our lives today.
In this chapter subtitled Institutional Critique, commissioned by KANAL Centre-Pompidou Brussels, Samah Hijawi speaks with Banu Cennetoฤlu (Turkey), Katleen Vermer and Ronny Heiremans (Belgium), and Yazan Al Khalili (Palestine/Netherlands), artists whose work offer different ways of probing the role of cultural institutions in their social and artistic contexts. More informations : samahhijawi.com/aop-kanal
TUNE IN to the next events :
Saturday January 30 & February 6, 16 h Brussels time
https://kanal.brussels/studiok.php
Saturday January 23, 16 h Brussels time
A conversation with Katleen Vermeir and Ronny Heiremans, whose works investigate the complex relationship between art, economy and the built environment. Together they reflect on how their works appropriate the codes and logics of the financial world to imagine ways for fairer practices in the artistic community.
Saturday, January 16, 16 h Brussels time
Listen online HERE
In this episode Samah Hijawi is in conversation Banu Cennetoฤlu from Turkey, whose practice incorporates methods of collecting and archiving, and inquires into the politics of the production, classification, and distribution of knowledge.
FOURTH COLLECTIVE SESSION SIC 2020/21 : February 1 - 4, 2021 with Alia Syed
It weighing hard on all of us, we really hope this finds you well and are looking forward to meet offline again. This session will still happen online.
The good part is that it is thus easy to join us from wherever you are : You are welcome !
Please contact us at : soundimageculture@gmail.com if you would like to join the one or other part of our collective session.
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© SIC 2020
Monday February 1 & Tuesday February 2, 10 - 17:30 h // ONLINE
Presentation and discussion of the ongoing SIC-projects.
18:00-19:00 h : Online - Apéro, a moment to share what questions and inspires us lately.
© Alia Syed: Kali Pani or the Cellular Jail
Wednesday February 3, 10:30 - 17:30 h // ONLINE*
RETURN TO THE BEGINNING : FORM CONTENT, CONTENT FORM - workshop with Alia Syed
* Breaks between: 12:30-13:30, 15-16h
This workshop unfolds around questions of intertwinement of form and content.
How can we “hear” the aesthetic the subject is calling for ? What actions are demanded of the respondent ? Is it enough that content just becomes the trace of these actions ? If my response as maker to your call as subject also becomes the subject, does that constitute an ethics: can a form create a balance between these positions ?
Completed in 1906 Kali Pani or the cellular jail was built by the British in the Andaman’s Islands to house Indian political prisoners during the Raj. Almost one and half centuries later the building re-emerges as a national Memorial celebrating Indian independence. Using these two iterations I will unravel my feelings of attraction and repulsion to how the building has adapted to hold this new ideology, registering how the scales constantly try to find equilibrium, pointing to a form and ultimately an aesthetic.
Using what Paul Gilroy in Black Atlantic describes as ethical antiphony, or in South Asian classical music is referred to as Sawal Jawab, call and response, as a template to structure my thinking, this talk and workshop will investigate what Trinh T Minh Ha terms thinking alongside “you may stand on the other side of the hill once in a while, but you may also be me, while remaining what you are and what i am not.”
I will divide the day into three, the first looking at how ideas of performance and performativity have shaped a number of previous works; with particular attention to Wallpaper, Priya, On a Wing and a Prayer and Points of Departure.
The second will be a workshop where we listen to film soundscapes (including clips from Meta Incognita) without reference to the picture and respond playfully, listening to our gut, paying attention to the spaces we are propelled into and responding in whatever way feels right, through mark making word or even more sound !
The third and final section will be a poetic response to the two formulations of Kali Pani that I have encountered through my initial research into making the final film Kali Pani in the triptych of works that uses the Thames and ideas stemming from Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon letters.
Syed’s films have been shown at numerous institutions around the world including BBC Arts Online (currently), The Triangle Space: Chelsea College of Arts (2014), Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2012-13, 5th Moscow Biennale (2013); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010); Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2009); XV Sydney Biennale (2006); Hayward Gallery, London (2005); Tate Britain, London (2003); Glasgow Museum of Modern Art, Scotland (2002); Iniva, London (2002); The New Art Gallery in Walsall (2002); and Tate Modern, London (2000), Reina Sophia Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid (2009), Courtisane Festival, Belgium (2019) WKV, Stuttgart (2019) and Yale Centre for British Art (2019). Syed’s films have also been the subject of several solo exhibitions at Talwar Gallery in New York and New Delhi.
Alia was the Artist in Focus at the Courtisane Festival in Belgium between 3 and 7 April 2019.
Her work Meta Incognita: Missive II featured in the exhibition Migrating Worlds: The Art of the Moving Image in Britain at Yale Centre for British Art.
She was nominated for the Jarman Award in 2015 and the Paul Hamlyn Artists Award in 2020.
Alia Syed was born in 1964 in Swansea, Wales. She lives and works in London. She has been making experimental films in Britain for over 25 years.
Alia’s work is available for exhibition, and purchase through Lux. Alia is supported by theartistsagency.
> https://www.aliasyed.co.uk/ >
Thursday February 4, 10 - 13 h // ONLINE
ON PRODUCTION - workshop with Alice Lemaire
© Michigan Films: Light Area, a film by Sébastien Andres, Olivier Burlet et Frédéric Noirhomme
Producing independent films from a producer point of view: What is it like? What are the realities of a producer? When should I sign my contract and what to argue on? Is he / she over-making profit on my project? What is a fair percentage? How to chose the right producer? How not end up hating each other? Can I trust him / her? Sharing experiences and thoughts about the crucial relationship between producer and director, in order to make great films together.
After studying in Paris, Alice Lemaire settled in Brussels to devote herself entirely to cinema. She worked for Wallonie-Bruxelles Images for two years promoting and exporting Belgian French-speaking films abroad. Today, she works mainly as a producer for Michigan Films and develops singular documentary and experimental projects. She has accompanied numerous films selected in international festivals: « Petit Samedi » by Paloma Sermon-Daï (Berlinale Forum), "Une fille de Ouessant" by Eléonore Saintagnan (Silver Sesterce at Visions du Réel), "D’un château l’autre" by Emmanuel Marre (Pardino d’Oro in Locarno)…
Liberty: an ephemeral statute (2020) by Rebecca Jane Arthur is online on ARGOS until the 25th of December!
© Rebecca Jane Arthur
A film made in the framework of SIC
Produced by Elephy. Co-produced by ARGOS and Beursschouwburg
Supported by Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds/Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie/Flemish Community Commission (VGC), Kunstendecreet, Wallonia-Brussels Federation, KASK School of Arts Gent, Sound Image Culture (SIC), WIELS Residency.
SAINTS'GAME by Amélie Derlon Cordina and Liberty: An Ephemeral Statute by Rebecca Jane Arthur’s are part of the online festival 25 ARTS SECONDE!! Streaming on 26-29 November!
You can also read insightful writing of Maria Palacios Cruz on Rebecca's film, as found in the catalogue for the online festival 25 ARTS SECONDE',
Watch the films with the link : https://www.cwb.fr/agenda/25-arts-seconde
Read the full articles with the link : 25 ARTS SECONDE'
Short video interviews : https://25artsseconde.cwb.fr/
"Rebecca Jane Arthur’s 'Liberty: An Ephemeral Statute' begins at sea. We soon glimpse Liberty, the Manhattan skyline presumed rather than seen through the mist and clouds. Blue sky and blue sea meet, the ghostlike city functioning as the horizon line that delineates one blue from the other. Liberty is the retelling of a personal story of migration, that of Irene Dunn, who, like Alice Guy, is also a pioneer of sorts. She left behind the certainties (and constraints) of a life that had been written out for her in Scotland to embrace the possibilities of an imagined one in America.” (text by Maria Palacios Cruz)
THIRD COLLECTIVE SESSION SIC 2020/21 : November 23 - 25, 2020
Impatient to meet everyone in person, we continue as it is possible for now: online.
If you would like to join some of our meetings via online-streaming, you are welcome. Please contact us at : soundimageculture@gmail.com
Monday November 23 & Tuesday November 24, 10 - 17h30 // ONLINE
Presentation and discussion of the ongoing SIC-projects.
18:30-19:30 h: Online - Apéro, a moment to share what questions and inspires us lately.
© Stoffel Debuysere
Wednesday November 25 & Thursday November 26, 10h30 - 17h // ONLINE
Cinema of Dissent - seminar with Stoffel Debuysere
*break between 13h-14h30
“When film-makers organize themselves to start from zero, to create a cinema with new types of plot-lines, of performance of rhythm, and with a different poetry, they throw themselves into the dangerous revolutionary adventure, of learning while you produce, of playing side by side theory and practice, of reformulating every theory through every practice, of conducting themselves according to the apt dictum coined by Nelson Pereira Dos Santos from some Portugese poet: ‘I don’t know where I’m going, but I know I’m not going over there.’” (Glauber Rocha)
Some tales of cinema setting out to redraw the trajectories that frame a given landscape of reality, undoing the knots and plots through which dominant histories are transmitted. Tales of invention and dissension, giving expression to an infinity of resistant emotions, perceptions, movements, gestures and gazes. Tales of cinematic adventures traversing and expanding borders, beyond the perimeters set by hierarchies and categories, and by so doing may yet bring forth that wonderful surprise which the forces of cynicism begrudge us — that which is still possible.
AESTHETICS OF THE POLITICAL
After a warm and nourishing dinner-performance with Mirna Bamieh in September this program is on hold due to the actual restrictions. We hope to go on soon.
If you would like to know more about the program, see: soundimageculture.org/aesthetics_of_the_political
Monday, November 9, 19 - 20:30h at BEURSSCHOUWBURG:
>> REPORTED TO A LATER DATE
What do we mean by Aesthetics of the Political?
A performative discussion
In the third encounter of ‘Aesthetics of the Political’ the curator Samah Hijawi together with Sandra Muteteri Heremans, Ogutu Maraya and Mirna Bamieh invites the audience to explore how the political takes its’ form in artistic practices of performance, image and text. Throughout the evening we will map out ideas of how artists and audiences produce and experience critical political resistance in artistic work. How do we define ‘the political’? How do artists transform their critical thoughts into aesthetic form? And how does this criticality operate as political resistance?
The event is free, but you need to register here.
More information on Aesthetics of the Political here.
Congratulations Derrière les volets by Messaline Raverdy (SIC 2012) is online with Doc Alliance on Dafilms.com!
Derrière les volets is also selected at the 5th Working Title film Festival, Italy (online) from October 1st until the 15th!
* A film developed in the framework of SIC
And Bertrand Gevart has written a beautiful text in french on her film. You can read it here > https://www.cinergie.be
Thursday October 15 at Grignoux, Liège an Evening "Filmer l'intime" organised by Dérives
Come discover 2 documentary films: 'Le Temps Long' by Lou Colpé and 'Demeure' by Lucie Martin (SIC 2015) *A film developed in the framework of SIC. Followed by an encounter with the filmmakers!
© Liberty: An Ephemeral Statute, Rebecca Jane Arthur
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Great News, September 24 - 27, Liberty: An Ephemeral Statute by Rebecca Jane Arthur (SIC 2018 /19), is selected at at the 16TH INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL ZAGREB, in a program curated by Maria Palacios Cruz.
* A film developed in the framework of SIC
Thank you Mirna Bamieh, Palestine Hosting Society for a wonderful evening at Pianofabriek!
'Menu of Dis/appearance: Dinner Table Performance' was part of Aesthetics of the Political, presented by SIC, a program of different encounters that takes time to look closely at the critical language, and forms of resistance in artistic work, curated by Samah Hijawi, in partnership with Chaire Mahmoud Darwich, BOZAR, Pianofabriek and Beursschouwburg.
Saturday, September 26, 18:30 - 21h at PIANOFABRIEK:
Menu of Dis/appearance: Dinner Table Performance
Mirna Bamieh, Palestine Hosting Society
Menu of Dis/appearance, brings us together in a much needed setting—around the table to break bread. Mirna Bamieh’s work narrates stories about time, history, and the parts of ourselves that slip away with lost food traditions. In her dinner-table performance she takes us on a journey through the dishes that are slowly disappearing from the Palestinian table, as access to wild foraging is restricted by colonial appropriation of both the land and the foods of the Palestinians over time. In this work, the artist takes the audience through the violence embedded in the meticulous erasure of identity of the colonised, even in their food culture.
Aesthetics of the Political, presented by SoundImageCulture, is a program of different encounters that takes time to look closely at the critical language, and forms of resistance in artistic work. Curated by Samah Hijawi.
In partnership with Chair Mahmoud Darwich, BOZAR, Pianofabriek and Beursschouwburg. Supported by VGC, SCAM, SABAM for Culture, Kunstenwerkplaats, OMAM/MSH. Design by Miriam Hempel/ daretoknow.
Secure your seat for the performance > tickets (from September 15th)
We ask a contribution of 15€ / person to be paid upon reservation.
Next events of Aesthetics of the Political: November 9th at Beursschouwburg, December 6th at BOZAR.
*Menu of Dis/appearance worldwide premiere in New York, commissioned by the Fisher Center for Performing Arts, for the Live Arts Bard Biennial: Where No Wall Remains(2019)
Tuesday September 22, Avant-première CHANCE by Effi & Amir at BOZAR CINEMA!
CHANCE / 2020 / 75' AR --> FR, NL
Four young Sudanese sneak into the back of a truck at a highway rest stop. They are determined and ready to do whatever it takes to reach England. One more night among many; another attempt; another “chance”, as they call it. Four young men spend the night in an enclosed, moving rectangle: they take stock of their daily lives while inside a black box.
SCREENING & MASTERCLASS WITH ROSINE MBAKAM
Thursday September 10, 19:30 - 21:30h at Cinéma Vendôme
Chez Jolie Coiffure - screening and encounter with Rosine Mbakam and Sandra Heremans
© Rosine Mbakam, Chez Jolie Coiffure
Illegal self-employment in the European capital: In an intimate portrait, Rosine Mbakam’s “Chez Jolie Coiffure” shows the everyday work of Sabine Amiyeme, a Cameroonian who has been living in Belgium for seven years and whose hairdresser’s shop in the middle of Matongé, regularly visited by police checks, is both a refuge and a fascination for Western tourists. read more
Friday, September 11, 10-17h at Pianofabriek:
Decolonization of my Cinematographic Gaze - masterclass with Rosine Mbakam
Imagination has always been a means of expression, escape, resistance and protection. This imaginary is strongly nourished by my family and its history, including my history. Documentary came later as a means of creating a link between all this.
How can you put your story into images when you are impregnated by a cinema that does not represent you and does not resemble you? How do you preserve your singularity? How can I integrate the documentary into my story and not the contrary? How can I find a form that is liberating for my imagination, for my story and that frees itself from pre-existing codes?
SECOND COLLECTIVE SESSION SIC 2020/21 : September 7 - 11, 2020
We are happy to meet for real and that Rosine Mbakam will be joining us !
As we are not allowed to come together with many and not everyone can travel, we propose an online-participation as well. If you would like to join some of our meetings via online-streaming, you are welcome. Please contact us at : soundimageculture@gmail.com
© SIC 2020
Monday September 7 & Tuesday September 8, 10 - 18h at Pianofabriek:
Presentation and discussion of the ongoing SIC-projects.
Wednesday September 9, 10 - 18h at Pianofabriek:
10 - 13h : Exploring Project and Subject through Practice - last part of the workshop with Sabine Groenewegen
14 - 18h : Discussion of the coaches' work and practices
Thursday September 10, 10 - 17h at Pianofabriek:
Sound and Spatialization - workshop with Patrick Codenys >> THIS WORKSHOP IS POSTPONED to November 27
© OuterSpace from Peter Tscherkassky
This workshop aims to highlight and master the advantages of the dimension of sound in relationship to image.
A basic approach is necessary to define the parameters of sound and establish a common vocabulary (nature of the sound, rhythms, harmonics, volumes, frequencies, etc.)
We are interested in Psycho-acoustics: the influence of sound on our body, our mental perception and behavior. The place of diffused, vibrating or absorbed sound in the environment, architecture, space and time will also be clarified.
Emphasis is placed on the development of our sensory faculties: learning to listen, educating our ears, awakening hearing acuity to better optimize the work as soon as the sound is taken during filming.
This joint approach is done intuitively as it is cerebral, passing from observation to knowledge.
Unlike the visual world which is hyper codified and subject to many recognized symbols and models, the audio world remains a relatively undefined discipline. It diffuses 360 degrees in space - the image being reduced to the two-dimensional screen. We grasp this disparity to analyze the sound-image integration through different examples drawn from cinema, documentary cinema, video, and also contemporary art installations.
More precisely the role that sound can take as a singular actor, in the form of "another" narrative and expression - developing its own language.
image © Untitled - from the series Surface Studies, Oraib Toukan
SEPTEMBER—DECEMBER 2020
A program of different encounters that takes time to look closely at the critical language, and forms of resistance in artistic work. Over the coming months we will come together in a series of events and conversations to experience artworks, discuss and engage with different artists, to reflect on the choices they make in their work when dealing with politically charged materials and different forms of coloniality.
In our first performative encounter, the artist Mirna Bamieh will present Menu of Disappearance, which brings us together in a much needed setting—around the table to break bread. Mirna Bamieh, narrates stories about time, history, and the parts of ourselves that slip away with lost food traditions. In her dinner-table performance she takes us on a journey through the dishes that are slowly disappearing from the Palestinian table, as access to wild foraging is restricted by colonial appropriation of both the land and the foods of the Palestinians over time. In this work, the artist takes the audience through the violence embedded in the meticulous erasure of identity of the colonised, even in their food culture.
Meanwhile, we would like to invite you to a sneak-peak into the world of the filmmaker Maxime Jean-Baptiste. In a conversation recently published on RectoVerso between Maxime and the artist/curator of this program, Samah Hijawi, they reflect together on the critical thinkers that inspire the aesthetical choices in their work: conversations-on-aesthetics-of-the-political
Future encounters will be with Oraib Toukan, Maxime Jean-Baptiste, Miguel Peres dos Santos, Ogutu Muraya, Sandra Heremans and Sabine Groenewegen. More Information
Presented by SoundImageCulture, curated by Samah Hijawi.
In partnership with Chair Mahmoud Darwich, BOZAR, Pianofabriek and Beursschouwburg. Supported by VGC, SCAM, SABAM for Culture, Kunstenwerkplaats, OMAM/MSH. Design by daretoknow.
Sad and very grateful to have met her, we share the passing of Michel Yang ( 1973 - 2020 )
Rest in Peace dear Michel.
© Faustine Cros
Congratulations to Faustine Cros (SIC 2018/19), she receives the stipend Brouillon d'un rêve by la Scam for her film "La Belle vie" / new title : "Valérie"!
* A film developed in the framework of SIC
and Maxime Jean-Baptiste (SIC 2018/19) is selected for a residency at CNES with an avant-première at Nuit Blanche in Paris!
More news :
September 4 - October 4 at White Box, Paris:
READY-MADES WITH INTEREST by Rebecca Jane Arthur (SIC 2018 /19)
September 5, 20:30h at Oriente Occidente Dance Festival, ROVERETO, Italy:
TALOS by Arkadi Zaides (SIC 2018/19)
September 17 - 25, 11:00-18:30h at POINT CULTURE, BRUSSELS:
Housewarming by SIC- coaches Effi & Amir as part of a group exhibition curated by Espace P( )tentiel.
* A film developed in the framework of SIC
September 18, at the Riga Pasaules Film Festival, Latvia
"Nou voix" by Maxime Jean-Baptiste (SIC 2018/19)
September 22, 18 h & 20:45 at BOZAR:
Avant première of CHANCE by SIC - coaches Effi & Amir
Andres Rump (SIC 2018/19), director of the month at DAFilms.
Discover his films 'DISTANT SONS', 'SHEIKH IBRAHIM, BROTHER JIHAD' and 'FOLLOWING FLAUBERT' online !
Festival de cinéma: En ville !
Thursday August 6, 19h at Cinéma PALACE
Première AILLEURS, PARTOUT by SIC-coach Vivianne Perelmuter and Isabelle Ingold
© Vivianne Perelmuter, Isabelle Ingold
A computer screen, images from the four corners of the world. We cross borders in one-click while another trip’s story reach us in bits, through text messages, chats, phone conversations, and an immigration office’s questionnaire. It’s the journey of Shahin, a 20-year-old Iranian boy who, fleeing his country alone, lands in Greece, then winds his way to England where he claims asylum.
Friday August 7, 21h45 at KINOGRAPH
Screening CHEZ JOLIE COIFFURE by SIC-guest Rosine Mbakam
© Rosine Mbakam
Illegal self-employment in the European capital: In an intimate portrait, Rosine Mbakam’s “Chez Jolie Coiffure” shows the everyday work of Sabine Amiyeme, a Cameroonian who has been living in Belgium for seven years and whose hairdresser’s shop in the middle of Matongé, regularly visited by police checks, is both a refuge and a fascination for Western tourists.
© Julia Clever
Tonight, monday August 3, 2020 at 22h30, A la poursuite du vent by Julia Clever, on TV RTBF 3 !
My grand father Wilhelm was a former Wehrmacht soldier. I have been filming him since my adolescence. After his death, I opened a box with memories from WWII he never showed anyone. Did I ever question him on his past? I can’t remember…
SIC ONLINE :
Discover SIC-films and meet the filmmakers for an online conversation, with this week :
#2 : Infinite Jetzt by Julie Pfleiderer
Monday 29 / 6 - Monday 06 / 7 : Watch the film here
Monday 06 / 7 at 18 h (Brussels Time) : Conversation with Julie Pfleiderer and Sophie Sherman (SIC) on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84475392959
© Infinite Jetzt by Julie Pfleiderer
Infinite Jetzt by Julie Pfleiderer
2014 - 19' // Original language: English
Three people from different cultures, two women and one man, happen to find themselves in one place, gathered by one story. The place is generic, and so is the story. The image is black and white. The background of the studio is black. Call it a non-place, just like the airport – or the cybercafé or the internet – that plays such an important role in Infinite Jetzt, the short film by Julie Pfleiderer.
DOP: Niclas Reed Middleton
Editing: Rudi Maerten
With: Hajaniania Ratsimbatsafy, Taka Shamoto, Caroline Daish
With the support of the Flemish Community, nadine/ laboratory for contemporary arts, Q-O2/ workspace for experimental music
Film developed in the framework of SoundImageCulture
SIC ONLINE :
Discover SIC-films and meet the filmmakers for an online conversation !
#1 : ANOTHER PLANET by Amir Yatziv
Monday 15 - Monday 22 / 06 : Watch the film here
Monday 22 / 06 at 18 h (Brussels Time) : Conversation with Amir Yatziv and Sophie Sherman (SIC) here
© Another Planet, Amir Yatziv
Another Planet by Amir Yatziv
2017 - 48' // Original language: German, Polish, Hebrew // Subtitles: English
The camps have been created for different reasons: a German prosecution office has designed a simulation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in order to investigate a 94-year-old defendant; a 27-year-old software developer from Israel is inspired by his belief in reincarnation to reconstruct his previous life as a Sonderkommando through a virtual exploration of his own camp-based computer game; and a German architect who has been surveying the camp for 15 years is working together with an Israeli historian on a highly accurate computerized model.
The film is constructed as a mosaic in which the avatars of each of these creators walk around the virtual camps and talk about them. As they do so, they gradually reveal a deeper layer of the film: the obsession of reconstructing the 'Other Planet' – the insatiable urge to document and enrich the historical and cultural memory of the Holocaust. (IFFR, Amir Yatziv)
Director, Cinematography & Research: Amir Yatziv, Production & Production Company: Amir Yatziv and Jonathan Doweck, Script: Elad Weingrod, Amir Yatziv, Editing: Didier Volckaert, Soundtrack: Nati Zeidenstadt.
Supported by: Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF). Film developed in the framework of SoundImageCulture.
© David Bert Joris Dhert
June 17 - June 24 "The Village Resists" (Portuguese name: Aldeia Resiste) by David Bert Joris Dhert will be shown in the Festival Internacional de Cine Ambiental in Buenos Aires, online and for free !
The festival is showing around 70 films relating to indigenous land struggles, ecofeminism and the role of cinema in creating possible futures!
"The Village Resists" (Aldeia Resiste)
Synopsis : The fight for an indigenous place in the city of Rio de Janeiro is not an easy task. Especially not when both the World Cup and the Olympic Games come knocking on your door. The film Aldeia Resiste observes from within the Indigenous community of Rio, located right next to the world-famous Maracanã stadium, how the two biggest sport events of the planet arrive in Brazil.
David Bert Joris Dhert trilogy's facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/wemustbedreaming/?ref=bookmark
"Demeure" by Lucie Martin is selected at Festival MoveCineArte 2020, from the 27th of August to November 15 !
FIRST COLLECTIVE SESSION SIC 2020 / 2021
Monday 2 - Sunday 7 / 6 / 2020 : Individual viewing
Monday 8 & Tuesday 9 / 6 / 2020, 10 - 12h & 13:30 - 16h : Discussion of the projects of the participants
Anantha Krishnam: SHADOWS OF GHANDI, Beatriz Moreira: OLGA, Cassandre Joly: SILENCE RADIO, David Bert Joris Dhert: SUDDENLY MY COURSE HAS CHANGED AND MAYBE THAT WAS THE INTENTION, Giordana Vedova: 83, RUE VERVLOESEM, James Newitt: THE OFF-LAND, Joëlle Sambi Nzeba: PINKSHASA DIASPORA, Juliette Joffe: THE CITY THAT DOESN'T EXIST, Omar Jabary Salamanca: EBONY WOOD, Sadaf Nazari: SUMMER DAY 1997, Sara Dersim: SUR LES PAS DE YILDIZ, Vivienne Weiran: THE TWO MOUNTAINS WEIGHING DOWN MY CHEST
> if you would like to join our online meetings please contact us : soundimageculture@gmail.com
© Stijn Schiffeleers, Exercise 2018
Friday June 12 - Friday June 19:
Exploring Project and Subject through Practice - workshop with Sabine Groenewegen
In this workshop the participants start testing and clarifying their approach and relationship to their material and subject trough several exercises, one-to-ones tutorials and group discussions.
We explore writing through editing and thinking through making.โจ By experimenting we examine the use and appropriateness of possible narrative devices, the maker’s POV and relationship to the circumstances of production of their material. We explore how different approaches (documentary, fiction, hybrids) will suit the subject and ambition of the project, and reflect on how these choices affect modes of sharing with an audience.
The workshop is led by filmmaker and editor Sabine Groenewegen, whose film Odyssey won the 2018 Doc Alliance Award and was screened at film festivals and art contexts including FidMarseille and the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) London.
ARGOS TV11: Messaline Raverdy
Derrière les volets by Messaline Raverdy is online, May 29 until the 8th of June 2020 !
Synopsis :
Starting off from an empty factory, a family name, and an archival trunk, Derrière les volets is the poetic wandering of an apprentice filmmaker who moves into her grandmother's house. The film manifests itself as a daydream about oblivion and the invisible, woven together from scattered materials, archives, and language games. The result is a film-diary questioning the transformation of the female body, as well as the fabric of time.
Watch it at: https://www.argosarts.org/event/argos-tv11-messaline-raverdy
A๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ด ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ต๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต, ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ด๐ฎ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ. ๐๐ข๐ค๐ฉ ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ฅ๐ข๐บ, ๐ข ๐ง๐ช๐ญ๐ฎ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ท๐ข๐ช๐ญ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ด๐ช๐ต๐ฆ, ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฌ, ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐จ๐ฆ.
Full film : https://vimeo.com/260243153
We are very happy to welcome Ananatha Krishnam, Beatriz Moreira, Cassandre Joly, David Bert Joris Dhert, Giordana Vedova, James Newitt, Joëlle Sambi Nzeba, Juliette Joffe, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Sadaf Nazari, Sara Dersim and Vivienne Weiran for SIC 2020/21 !
Nou Voix (2019) by Maxime Jean-Baptiste is part of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 66th edition
in the context of a screening program by Argos Center for Audiovisual Arts (Brussels, Belgium). Online from 13/05/2020-18/05/2020
Synopsis : Nou Voix is an autobiographical video departing from the participation of the artist's father as a Guyanese figurant in the historic film Jean Galmot, aventurier (1990).
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© Filipa Cardoso
Filipa Cardoso's new website is online !
You can immerse yourselves in the videos here : https://gyuto-movie.com
"The sound of the big mountain cracking, the sound of the waves in the ocean"
To hear the sound of the ocean in the Himalayas... This unlikely wish takes a film director and her three curious girls to Gyütö, a Tibetan Buddhist monastery echoing day and night the sacred tantric chants of meditation, which the monks say, “sound like the waves of the ocean”
Wandering freely about wherever their curiosity leads them, they discover the daily life of 400 monks living there. Over time, a dialogue develops and a growing complicity emerges. The reality of Buddhism is revealed in a way that is unprecedented, in the spontaneity of the questions asked, as well as with the sensitive understanding of a child's point of view and with no proselytization at all.
"What triggered this project was the unstoppable urge to feel this vibratory intensity at its source, to understand its place in the monks daily lives, to get a deeper idea of what it is that appeals to me in Buddhist philosophy, and to let myself be completely immersed in the experience I am faced with." Filipa Cardoso
We are happy on the number and quality of applications received.
The new cycle SIC 2020 / 21 will be constituted by the end of April - and hopefully start in June.
Take care.
© Koute vwa - Maxime Jean-Baptiste
A new cycle of SIC is starting again in Brussels !
SoundImageCulture (SIC) helps you break up the solitude of developing your audiovisual project on your own.
It will open you to new possibilities and a network of ressources that can sustain and nurture your project at different levels.
For 18 months, we provide your project with an individual and personalised follow-up.
Projects are fed by group discussions, active workshops, meetings with their personal tutor and with invited international guests.
International guests participate in collective debates, offer master-class days and face-to-face meetings with participants, broadening the spectrum of our contributions. We remain committed to transmitting an intercultural ethics, are attentive to the issues of the present and sensitive to emerging artistic trends. SIC is non-hierarchical. Participants are considered our peers and are involved in the discussions as are the tutors.
Collective sessions take place about every two- three months in Brussels.
The coaches of SIC 2020 / 2021 are Effi & Amir, Mary Jiménez, Jorge Léon, Vivianne Perelmuter and Didier Volckaert.
Patrick Codenys will be our sound mentor and Lucrezia Lippi our editing mentor.
International guests will be invited according to the selected projects.
Former guests include : Alia Syed, Jelena Juresa, Emmanuel Marre, Louis Henderson, Ben Russell, Britt Hatzius, Dr. Chris Wright, David Toop, Eleonore de Montesquieu, Els Dietvorst, Ergin Cavusoglu, Genevieve Yue, Itsushi Kawase, Jeff Silva, Mira Sanders, Pieter Geenen, Ursula Biemann, Wapke Feenstra ..
SoundImageCulture (SIC) is especially interested in project proposals that go beyond genre borders (Poetic, experimental, hybrid films fiction/documentary) and in which artistic development goes together with an anthropological approach.
The selection is based on an audiovisual project proposal submitted by the candidate which contains the following paragraphs:
> What is the subject of your project and why do you want to make it?
> What’s the relation between the author and his or her subject/ the 'other'?
> What is the relation between your subject and the form you choose?
Send us your project proposals :
A short description of your project (1- 3 pages),
photos, web links, CV etc...
Deadline : March 1st 2020
The interviews with selected persons will be held on April 27 & 28, 2020.
SIC 2020/21 starts in June 2020 and runs till December 2021.
Cost : 1500 €
There are grants available to co-finance your participation (fees) of the SIC cycle.
Contact us for more information : soundimageculture@gmail.com
SoundImageCulture (SIC) is supported by the FWB - Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and VAF - Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds.
PARTICIPANTS FEEDBACK
SIC provided the much-needed space and motivation for me to develop my project further within a community of supportive fellow ๏ฌlmmakers. Aside from personal interactions with my coach, I learnt a lot from the various workshops, excursions and masterclasses organised during our collective sessions, as well as from conversations with my fellow co-participants. The exposure to di๏ฌerent ๏ฌlm industry professionals, especially during the showcase at our last session, was also particularly helpful: thanks to that, I now have an upcoming residency in 2020 to work on some of the animation portions of my ๏ฌlm. D.Onuhoa
Having a community to meet and discuss on personal projects is a very important thing as if done in a wise and respectful way, it can help bring the best out of projects. Sic created this community. Sharing this creative process with people in the same situation, that have themselves been faced with similar questions and problems is very helpful. H.Kaminara
SIC has presented me with an open and welcoming occasion to continually use my camera like a pen. It has lived up to all my expectations. Furthermore, SIC has created an environment in which I can seriously watch the works of other participants and share my own insights. A collective atmosphere like that is rare among ๏ฌlmmakers. M.LANCIT
For a long time I had been planning to realise an autobiographical documentary ๏ฌlm project….
I found it very helpful that the tutors and other participants involved, created a familiar environment in which the sometimes very personal character of my project, was discussed and commented on in a warm and at the same time constructive atmosphere. A. RUMP
I liked the approach of a multidisciplinary platform combining together di๏ฌerent approaches of cinematographic language (the visual arts, documentary practice, visual anthropology etc).
Artistic and creative work can be a very lonely process. In addition, it is essential to be able to take a step back in order to look at the work from di๏ฌerent perspectives and that is exactly what SIC o๏ฌered. H.KAMINARA
During the actual sessions I enjoyed seeing the broad range of personal projects by other participants. Getting more insight into their work, approach, process, doubts, … felt stimulating and often resulted in moments of personal evaluation for myself. The constructive conversations and diverse perspectives during moments of feedback from mentors, guests, participants and visitors were de๏ฌnitely a highlight.
Further expansion of our way of thinking was stimulated by various workshops, exercises and bringing in external ๏ฌlm makers. Overall it is the multiplicity of perspectives and questions (formal, practical, theoretical, philosophical, ethical, …) which helped me develop an immediate personal path forward as well as a solid basis to work o๏ฌ in the future. S.SCHIFFELEERS
Wednesday Febuary 19, 2020, 20h30 screening at Beursschouwburg
"Liberty: an ephemeral statute" by Rebecca Jane Arthur
Developed in the framework of SIC.
© Rebecca Jane Arthur
Experimental documentary following three generations of women and the search for liberation in an ever-evolving socio-political climate.
Stemming from a personal account of a search for liberation set in the US during the early 70s, Liberty: an ephemeral statute reflects upon post-68 desires for emancipation, emigration, and education through an impressionistic memoir and portrait of the filmmaker’s mother back home in Scotland today.
Rebecca Jane Arthur (1984, Edinburgh, UK) is a visual artist working predominantly with writing and the moving image. Parallel to her artistic practice, Arthur works in Brussels as a producer, writer, copy-editor and translator.
€6 reduction / €4,5 student
€9 tickets
In English
NEWS IN OCTOBER
Congratulations to Messaline Raverdy! her film "Behind the Shutters" won the Young Jury Award, at Black Canvas Festival - Cine Contemporáneo, Mexico, 2019 !!
*you can watch her interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VbDTRFtdSs
"Demeure" by Lucie Martin is selected at the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam 2019
* talk show here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqQDCHAXTFM
"Odyssey" by Sabine Groenewegen is selected in Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival 2019
Trying to catch the wind" by Julia Clever will be screened at Cinema RITCS, Brussels, october 15 2019 at 19:30
Wednesday October 2, 19:15h at Cinema Palace:
Avant - première Demeure by Lucie Martin and Visible Cities by Babette Mangolte, at the Opening evening of 'Festival En Ville'
© Lucie Martin
The home, that very intimate space, where we store our belongings, our secrets. The place where one can escape the other’s gaze by closing the door. Here, however, there are few possessions and the door is open. On the threshold, a man.
Demeure will also feature at AFFR - Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam and at the festival Traces de vie, in Clermont-Ferrand, France.
September 23 - 26: Sixth Collective Session
You are welcome to join us. Please register via email to soundimageculture@gmail.com
Monday September 23 & Tuesday September 24: 10 - 17h at PIANOFABRIEK:
Presentation and discussion of the ongoing SIC-projects
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© SIC
Wednesday September 25: 10 - 13h at PIANOFABRIEK:
Production. Workshop with Alice Lemaire, Michigan Films
© Michigan Films, Une fille de Ouessant by Eléonore Saintagnan
Producing independent films from a producer point of view: What is it like? What are the realities of a producer? When should I sign my contract and what to argue on? Is he / she over-making profit on my project? What is a fair percentage? How to chose the right producer? How not end up hating each other? Can I trust him / her? Sharing experiences and thoughts about the crucial relationship between producer and director, in order to make great films together.
After studying in Paris, Alice Lemaire settled in Brussels to devote herself entirely to cinema. She worked for Wallonie-Bruxelles Images for two years promoting and exporting Belgian French-speaking films abroad. Today, she works mainly as a producer for Michigan Films and develops singular documentary and experimental projects. She has accompanied numerous films selected in international festivals: "Qui es-tu Octobre ?" by Julie Jaroszewski (Visions du Réel), "Une fille de Ouessant" by Eléonore Saintagnan (Silver Sesterce at Visions du Réel), "D’un château l’autre" by Emmanuel Marre (Pardino d’Oro in Locarno)…
Thursday September 26: 14 - 18h at PIANOFABRIEK:
Short Presentations. Discover the ongoing SIC - projects in a nutshell and join us for a drink.
© SIC
By the Name of Tania by Bénédicte Lienard & Mary Jiménez will have its UK premiere at Raindance !
"Beyond its lyrical telling, this story is also captured in sublime detail. Cinematographer Virginie Surdej (recipient of Les Magritte du Cinéma Award) finds an unusual beauty and clarity in the world around her, finding assurance that, though marred by various evils, the world is not lost entirely. A documentary of devastating power, but not without hope." Milo Garner
If you want to listen to Emmanuel Marre's Master Class at SIC - 2019
Friday September 13, at 13h at 39 Avenue du Bempt, Brussels
L'Escamoteur by Laurent Lafuma at the 1st edition of Festival Mondial des Cinémas Sauvages
© Laurent Lafuma
The film follows Ranavalona III’s tracks, Madagascarian last queen, whom got caught into the vice of french colonialism and imperialism wills ; She was sent in exil, beginning of year 1897, reached Reunion Island, then Algeria, where she died in 1917 ; she did not get a chance to see her homeland again.
From a visit to the Saint-Germain-en-Laye city museum collection, to a traditional exhumation ceremony, travel images and other visual propositions, her tragic destiny is revealed, using different cinematographic forms.
Throughout his investigastion, the author developp a personnal relation to the figure of the queen ; he calls back her memory – did she visited him in a dream to ask her honour to be restaured ? -, the author becomes a companion on the way of exil with the ferm intention to defend her.
The film tackles history/memory as well as political issues ; its all substance may be the consequence of an anthropologic and artistic wandering.
Great News!!!
Odyssey by Sabine Groenewegen (2018/61'/SIC/Spectre production)
is selected at :
Cinemigrante, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 09/2019
FIDMarseille 2019, Marseille, France (French Premiere), 07/2019
Great News!!!
The Yellow Mazda and His Holiness by Sandra Heremans (2018/10'/SIC/Atelier Graphoui, Distribution Argos)
is selected at :
Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, FR, 08/10/19
Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Belo Horizonte, BR, 30/08/19 - 30/09/19
Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art, Lviv, UA, 22/08/19
Finally online Janine Prins reflections on playing with heritage in space... And her installation "Legacy of Silence" developed in the framework of SIC !
>>>> read here : Expanded Footage / Blending Video into a Colonial Heritage Exhibition
Janine Prins is an independent visual anthropologist and documentary filmmaker affiliated with the Visual Ethnography programme at Leiden University. Her main research interests lie in the exploration of new combinations of audiovisual media in relation to social science topics, be it through the use of television, cinema, new media, design thinking or most recently: installation art practices. As a research fellow for Waag Society, she participated in RICHES, a project on 21st-century cultural heritage, in collaboration with the Dutch National Museum of Ethnology.
SEPTEMBER DIARY (80min/2019) by Eric Pauwels
Wednesday August 21 at 21:45pm, and Thursday August 29 at 23:10, watch SEPTEMBER DIARY by Eric Pauwels on Belgium TV - RTBF - Channel 3,
and the possibility to also watch the film for 4 weeks on Audio.
Synopsis :
A film made of objects, faces and texts; of lost cats, of found pictures, cut-outs, recreations; a poetic subversion in diary form, one that breaks the calendar into a novel, driving relentlessly as a journey to the end of the world. A joyful celebration of life and the inexhaustible desire to make films by a major figure in European film-essay.
Friday August 2 at 20:30 at Het Bos, Arkadi Zaides exhibition : CAPTURE PRACTICE
The Opening of Arkadi Zaides exhibition will take place on the 2nd of August at Het Bos in Antwerp, Belgium, as part of Visite Film Festival #7 at Het Bos.
The exhibition will showcase a video installation called CAPTURE PRACTICE, and will open with the film Recollection (2015, 70') by the Palestinian director Kamal Aljafari.
OPENING NIGHT: 02.08.2019
20:30 - Opening installation 'Capture Practice' (18', loop) in the presence of Arkadi Zaides.
21:00 - Arkadi Zaides chose to screen 'Recollection' (2015, 70') by Kamal Aljafari alongside his own work.
*more infos : http://www.hetbos.be/agenda/2019/8/2/#2587
facebook event : https://www.facebook.com/events/385341442100215/
SIC 2018 / 2019 : Fifth Collective Session: Emmanuel Marre is joining us -
you are welcome to join us too! Please register via email to soundimageculture@gmail.com
© SIC
Monday June 17 & Tuesday June 18 : 10 - 17h at PIANOFABRIEK:
Presentation and discussion of the ongoing SIC-projects.
Monday June 17, at CINEMATEK:
19h: D'UN CHATEAU L'AUTRE by Emmanuel Marre, followed by a conversation of the fimmaker with Bénédicte Liénard.
© Emmanuel Marre: D'un chateau l'autre
Spring 2017, during the French presidential election. Pierre, 25 years old and on a scholarship for a prestigious Parisian School, is housed by Francine, who is 75, disabled and confined to her wheelchair. Both puzzled and disoriented, they witness the electoral fair that's playing out. Their political opinions and social backgrounds are opposite but they still confide in each other. While waiting for the polls verdict, Pierre tries to look after Francine's body while Francine tries to heal Pierre's resentment. > Teaser
And as proposed by Emmanuel Marre:
20:30h: SAME RIVER TWICE by Effi & Amir, followed by a conversation of the artists and Emmanuel Marre.
© Effi & Amir: Same River Twice
In 1869, John McGregor, a Scottish explorer, arrives in Palestine to explore the Jordan River. In the summer of 2011, Effi and Amir, Israelis who have been living in Europe for the past decade, set out to retrace McGregor’s steps, from the river source to the Sea of Galilee.
Against the backdrop of a mythical landscape overflowing with Israeli vacationers, they take us along on a journey down the river’s path. At the same time local and foreign, they gradually transform from traveler-explorers to 'explored travelers' - as the people they meet along the way unabashedly confront them about their relationship with the land they had left.
The flow of encounters, invaded landscapes and spontaneous dialogues behind the camera raise questions of kinship and ownership, proximity and distance, and expose the biographical and ideological filters that condition our connection to a place.
Wednesday June 19, 10-17h at PIANOFABRIEK:
Y-ALLER / LET'S GO, masterclass with Emmanuel Marre.
© Emmanuel Marre
There is always a moment in cinema when you have to take the plunge.
A moment when the director, whether alone or surrounded by others, says "LET'S GO".
But how to do this when the needs of the film, the inner visceral needs do not match the economic, logistical and administrative timing of production? These frameworks ask the filmmaker, and those with whom he is working, to know in advance exactly where they are going, to give guarantees.
How to "GO" freely without prior announcement? How to make a film without knowing what to do? How to make films that do not begin with "I know" but with "I don't know", films that do not go where they are sure they can be shot, films that want to "go see" what is refused and what makes us tremble? How to make films whose language is above all the practical language of the film being made. And how can we go beyond simple capture, a simple cinema of presence?
Giving priority to the gesture of "LET'S GO" implies rethinking things. Thinking of a cinema that starts at the moment that we make the decision to film forces us to rethink the categories: Documentary or fiction? Short or long? Cinema of the word or of the body? Are these dual oppositions not to be reviewed or overcome?
Finally, and this is perhaps the most important, where to get the energy to GO ? Isn't it something inside us, filmmakers, isn't it something sacred, a bit mystical, a ritual essential to find the energy to "GO"?
Thursday June 20, 14 - 18h at ARGOS:
Exhibition APHASIA by Jelena Jureša.
At 16h Jelena Jureša and her cinematographer Sébastien Cros will join for a conversation about the work.
© Jelena Jureša: Aphasia
As a medical term, aphasia refers to the inability to speak or to find the right words. Jelena Jureša’s new film installation Aphasia consists of three chapters, each focusing on the collective silence surrounding crime and the compartmentalisation of historical events, and tracing the line between Belgian colonialism, Austrian anti-Semitism and the wars in Yugoslavia.
With Aphasia, Jureša not only digs for the roots and preconditions for a state sponsored violence, but also for the reasons why such collective crimes keep being repeated. The film zooms in on objectivisation and dehumanisation processes, among other themes, while at the same time shedding light on the roles played by photography and film.
The media are not shown as mere silent witnesses to a twisted worldview, but as active instruments in preparing and executing different crimes against humanity. However, Aphasia aims to show their positive force as well. When law and politics fail to bring justice and facilitate collective healing, these same media (photography, film, television) can break the silence, and art may lead the way to justice.
Aphasia is a work of art about racism and intolerance, exposing the banality and triviality of evil. The films challenges us to look (literally) more attentively and to question our own individual and collective position. Aphasia is a call, not for punishment or outrage about the crimes committed during colonial times, the Holocaust or the atrocities in Bosnia during the Yugoslavian wars. Rather, it is a call to break the collective silence, and to actually look at the blind spots that seem to have become a fundamental part of our European identity.
Aphasia begins where everything else ends – precisely because the artistic imagination can offer different perspectives, solace and justice.
Thursday June 20, 20:30h at CINEMATEK:
AVANT-PREMIERE: APHASIA by Jelena Jureša. Followed by a conversation with the artist, Berber Bevernage and Rolf Quaghebeur.
© Jelena Jureša: Aphasia
Aphasia is a film built up in three interwoven chapters. Each part focuses on the absurdity that arises from the collective silence surrounding crimes and the fragmentation of historical events, tracing the line between Belgian colonialism, Austrian antisemitism and the war in Yugoslavia. Focusing on the blind spots of history and the difficulty of speaking about the troubled past, the film charts the line starting with the museum dioramas in Tervuren through photography to film and, like the bullet from the FN Herstal 1910 pistol that became emblematic of the WWI, connects Bosnia, Serbia, Austria and Belgium in their seemingly disparate fates and historical amnesias.
Thursday June 20, at 19h at WIELS:
THE BURROW & SAINTS' GAME by Amelie Derlon Cordina.
followed by a conversation between Amélie Derlon Cordina and Jorge Léon
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© Amelie Derlon Cordina: The Burrow
Belgian Premier: The Burrow is Kafka's last text, a vertiginous monologue in the form of an address, left unfinished. The challenge here will be to have the experience. Mismatched planks and plant palettes planted indoors on the ground, Strike the body. Intricacy of words and places Strike, reader, performer and protagonist blend, indistinguishable. A labyrinthine movement in the image of the text itself, back and forth between inside and outside, from the terrier-place to the terrier-text: its actualization. (Text by Nicolas Feodoroff, FID Marseille)
The Burrow will be screened in loop: 21.06 - 07.07.2019, 14:00-18:00 (Tuesday > Sunday), at WIELS Auditorium. Free admission.
Congratulations !
Sabine Groenewegen’s ODYSSEY Wins Doc Alliance Selection Award 2019 at Cannes !
Two undefined intelligences are intercepting earthly footage of humans living in an area known as the Low Lands. The researchers exchange their findings through a visual feed, in an attempt to understand the occurrence of extraordinary apparitions. The onlookers’ efforts to understand an enchanted human world are interrupted by another signal which imposes itself on the unfolding investigation, resulting in a play with the logic of the production of meaning. Through a combination of found footage, sci-fi and poetry, Odyssey interrogates the visual rhetoric of whiteness in the specific Dutch colonial project and evokes questions about the stories we’re told and our possibilities to disrupt them. > teaser
Congratulations !
BEAUTIFUL LIFE by Faustine Cros, developed in the framework of SIC 2018/ 2019, was among the 7 films selected at Focus CoPro du Short Film Corner at the Cannes Film Festival!
THE YELLOW MAZDA AND HIS HOLINESS by Sandra Heremans in competition at VIS Vienna Shorts Festival.
FAMASI MOBIL KONGOLÈ by Lafleur & Bogaert awarded first prize at BWAC by juror Ylinka Barotto, curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in NYC!
Monday APRIL 25th at 20:00, MITRA by Jorge Leon at CENTRE JACQUES FRANCK with Le P'tit Ciné.
Jorge Leon will present the film. Discussion on the writing and form of his film.
Friday 26 April 2019, 10 am – 12 pm, Workshop at ARGOS, Brussels
On & For: Distribution for Dummies is a workshop on the basics of distribution for students, graduates, and first-time artists’ moving image-makers.
Distribution for Dummies will map out a general overview of the local, national and international distribution landscape. It will share knowledge on festival submissions, including information on festival specificities (doc/animation/shorts, etc.), submission fees, and the communications packet needed. Further, it will discuss how films are selected for distribution catalogues/collections, what distribution contracts entail, and screening fees.
Distribution for Dummies invites you to come prepared with questions to ask our experts!
The workshop aims to answer your queries and equip distribution beginners with the knowledge necessary to devise their own first distribution strategy and circulate their films.
Distribution for Dummies is presented by Laurence Alary (Head of Distribution at ARGOS) and Kim Vanvolsom (Head of Distribution at Atelier Graphoui), and moderated by Maria Palacios Cruz (Deputy Director of LUX).
Distribution for Dummies – Practical Info
Date & time: Friday 26 April 2019, 10 am – 12 pm
Location: ARGOS, Werfstraat/Rue de Chantier 13, 1000 Brussels
Entrance: Free! Please reserve your seat by emailing info@onandfor.eu before 05/04/19. Limited places available.
Reservation: State your name, your relation to artists’ moving image (student, graduate, or other), and send 2 questions about moving image distribution that you’d like us to answer.
Language: English
SIC 2018 / 2019 : Fourth Collective Session: We are very happy that Alia Syed is joining us !
Tuesday April 2 & Wednesday April 3, 10-17h at ISELP:
Presentation and discussion of the ongoing SIC-projects.
Thursday April 4, 10-17h at ISELP:
10-14:30h : Screening and discussion of filmed exercises and an ongoing project by Alia Syed
15-17h : Screening "Enjoy Poverty" by Renzo Martens & discussion with the editor Jan De Coster
Friday April 5, 10-13h at ISELP:
Introduction to the editing program 'Da Vinci' with Mary Jimeฬnez
*Welcome to join us! Please register via email to soundimageculture@gmail.com
© Alia Syed: Eating Grass
Alia Syed is artist in focus at the courtisane - festival in Ghent:
Friday April 5 & Saturday April 6, 15:00 - 22:30h at Gouvernement:
Wallpaper, an installation by Alia Syed
Friday April 5, 16:30h at Sphinx Cinema:
Screening with Alia Syed: Watershed, Swan, Unfolding, Light reading, Fatima’s Letter
Saturday, April 6, at Paddenhoek:
20h: Screening with Alia Syed: Delilah, Dreaming Rivers, Priya, Eating Grass
22h: Screening with Alia Syed: On a Wing and a Prayer, Meta Incognita: Missive II
Sunday, April 7, 18h at Paddenhoek:
Alia Syed : Three Paces, Redshift
© Alia Syed: Meta Incognita: Missive II
Alia Syed made her early 16mm films at the London Film-makers Co-operative in the mid-1980s, using the Co-op’s optical printer as a means to explore issues of identity and representation. Her work proposes an ongoing investigation of the nature and role of language in intercultural communication, with a focus on borders and boundaries, translation and the trans-cultured self. Her films draw from personal and historical realities in order to address the subjective relationship to gender, location, diaspora and colonialism. Alia Syed’s recent works combine her interest in storytelling with a compelling presentation of history as visual narrative.
Alia Syed lives between London and Glasgow. Syed’s films have been shown at numerous institutions around the world including the Whitechapel Gallery (2017), Antwerp Art Weekend (2017); Tate Britain (2016), Tate Modern (2016); BBC Arts Online (2015), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2012-13), 5th Moscow Biennale (2013); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010); Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2009); XV Sydney Biennale (2006); Hayward Gallery, London (2005); Tate Britain, London (2003); Glasgow Museum of Modern Art, Scotland (2002); Iniva, London (2002); The New Art Gallery in Walsall (2002); and Tate Modern, London (2000). Syed’s films have also been the subject of several solo exhibitions at Talwar Gallery in New York and New Delhi. Syed was nominated for the Jarman Award in 2015. Her most recent show was at LUX in London from January 10th - until 10th February 2018 https://lux.org.uk/event/bl-ck-b-x-alia-sye
© Messaline Raverdy
MESSALINE RAVERDY - DERRIÈRE LES VOLETS
SCREENING - BLACK BOX - ARGOS _ BRUSSELS
jeu. 28.3.2019 - dim. 07.4.2019
11:00 - 18:00
Screened every hour.
An empty factory, a family’s name, a pregnant girl, and some archives in a big house, and a women’s world… Trough feminine figures, a poetic dreaming about the invisible, the materiality of memory and transformation.
Messaline Raverdy - Derrière les volets
2018, 49'57", colour, French spoken, English subtitles.
Opening-Night at courtisane - festival : April 3, 20h at MINARD, Ghent:
Avant-Première of Divinations by Sarah Vanagt, edited by SIC-coach Effi Weiss.
The screening is free, but reservation required at: daphne@courtisane.be
Screening Saturday March 31 screening :
"The Yellow Mazda and His Holiness" by Sandra Heremans is selected at Ann Arbor Film Festival !
(26/03/19 - 31/03/19) Ann Arbor / USA
© Julia Clever
Two SIC films at Festival Millenium 2019, March 26 !
Tuesday March 26 at 7PM, Derrière Les Volets by Messaline Raverdy (2018 /50'/SIC/CBA)
Cinéma Vendôme, Brussels (english subtitles)
Tuesday March 26 at 7PM, A la Poursuite du Vent by Julia Clever (2018 /62'/SIC/Derrives/CBA),
Cinéma Gallerie, Brussels. (english subtitles)
Derrère les Volets de Messaline Raverdy will also be screened at Bergamo Film Meeting, Italie !
Lázara Rosell Albear will be presenting her new video "Secuestrando a Barbi/Mono No Monogatari" (2019 - 24' - HD - B&W - loop) + Photo series "Finding the Right Blackness" (2014 - ongoing)
And performing "Unsurrounded XV" at the finissage (March 17th at 15PM)
during the Group Exhibition, "noli me tangere" (February 13th - March 17th ) curated by Tania Nasielski at Abbatoir De Bomel, at Namur, Belgium.
Lázara Rosell Albear will show a new video installation :
Sunday April 7th, Group Exhibition, Feast of Fools. Bruegel Rediscovered
curated by Luk Lambrecht and Lieze Eneman.
at Kasteel van Gaasbeek
Kasteelstraat 40, 1750 Gaasbeek, Brabant, Belgium
© Sonia Pastecchia
We heartily welcome you on Thursday February 7th, 10-18h at Beursschouwburg, Brussels.
Participants' Choices / Screenings
SIC Participants will present previous films and films that inspire their work :
10:00 >> "Flaneurs" (‘Street Rambles’) by Matthew Lancit (2016/80') http://www.flaneurs-film.com/about/
11:30 >>"Campo Santo" by Sonia Pastecchia (2007/60') https://www.iotaproduction.be/en/film/campo-santo-holly-field/
12:45 >>"Cilaos" by Camilo Restrepo (2016/13') proposed by Maxime Jean-Baptiste https://vimeo.com/173580232
14:15 >> "Ready-mades with Interest" by Rebecca Jane Arthur (2017/27') https://vimeo.com/139473605
15:00 >> "Distant Sons" by Andres Rump (2016/88') https://german-documentaries.de/en_EN/films/distant-sons.9917
16:30 >> "Enjoy Poverty" by Renzo Martens, 90 min - proposed by Arkadi Zaides http://www.enjoypoverty.com
Entrance is free.
Address : Beursschouwburg, Rue Auguste Orts 20-28, 1000 Brussels
© Louis Henderson
Wednesday February 6 : 10AM-5PM - Masterclass Louis Henderson - Unfolding of life in a spiral, at Beursschouwburg, Brussels.
Louis Henderson will present an ongoing project titled "Ouvertures", authored by the artist group "The Living and the Dead Ensemble" (Atchasou, Léonard Jean Baptiste, Mackenson Bijou, Rossi Jacques Casimir, Dieuvela Cherestal, James Desiris, James Fleurissaint, Louis Henderson, Cynthia Maignan, Olivier Marboeuf and Zakh Turin). "Ouvertures" questions the contemporary relevance of the Haitian revolution through a series of translation workshops, a play by Édouard Glissant and a feature film improvised by "The Living and the Dead Ensemble". The project engages questions of representation and the telling of history through orality and body gesture. Made between France and Haiti, and developed through collective processes of writing and improvisation, the work attempts ways of filmmaking as anti-colonial method.
"The Living and the Dead Ensemble" first gathered in July 2017 for the Monsieur Toussaint Sessions workshop at the Centre d’art in Port-au-Prince, where they were working together on translating Monsieur Toussaint (a play by Édouard Glissant) from French to Haitian Creole. Focusing on theatre, cinema, poetry, song, slam and rap, they performed the Kreyòl version of the play in the cemetery of Port-au-Prince as part of the Ghetto Biennale 2017.
(presentation and excerpts from the work)
https://frieze.com/article/masters-voice
http://spectre-productions.com/en/artistes/louis-henderson
Louis Henderson is a filmmaker whose works investigate connections between colonialism, technology, capitalism and history. His research seeks to formulate an archaeological method within film practice reflecting on animistic materialism. Henderson has shown his work at places such as; Rotterdam International Film Festival, Doc Lisboa, CPH:DOX, New York Film Festival, Centre Pompidou, Louisiana museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern and Tate Britain, In 2015 he was the recipient of the Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award for Emerging Video Artist at the 53rd Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA, and a European Short Film Award - New Horizons International Film Festival, Wroclaw, Poland. His work is distributed by Lux (UK) and Video Data Bank (USA).
After several short films, he is currently at work on his first feature-length film, "Ouvertures", based on a re-reading of the Haitian Revolution, its great heroes and the persistence of their heritage in the bodies and minds of the country's youth today.
Born in Norwich, 1983 and currently living in Paris. In 2007 Henderson received a First Class BA Honours in Film and Video from London College of Communication, and in 2013 graduated with ‘felicitations du jury’ from Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains.
Entrance is free, but please make a reservation via email : soundimageculture@gmail.com
Address : Beursschouwburg, Rue Auguste Orts 20-28, 1000 Brussels
Wednesday January 23, at the CARMaH (Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage) at Berlin. Debbie Onuoha will talk about ethnographic film projects she works on.
"What might it look like to film ghosts, silences and hidden things in museums, archives and heritage spaces? In this presentation, I introduce three early-stage film projects I am developing as visual anthropologists at CARMAH. (1) "Homecoming," (working title) is an experimental documentary that explores the recent return of ancestral remains from institutions in Germany to the national museum of Namibia last August. (2) "Bobby," (working title) is an essayistic portrait of the Bobby the Gorilla—held in the Berlin Zoo (1928-1935), then taxidermied at the Museum für Naturkunde (to date)—which meditates on shifting human-animal dynamics in 1930s Berlin. Lastly, (3) "Memorial" (working title) is an observational film examining how visitors engage with the space of Berlin's Holocaust Memorial." (Debbie Onuoha )
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Wednesday, January 16, at MuntPunt, Afropean Short Film Evening: #2nd edition, Brussels, 2019
Screening :
โถ La Mazda Jaune et sa Sainteté
Directed by: Sandra Heremans
Language: FR (ENG subs)
Thusday, December 20, at Cinéma Aventure, Short Screens - LeJourLePlusCourt - films d'ateliers, Brussels, 2018
and
Friday December 21, Afropean Short Film Evening FOMU Photo Museum, Anwerp, 2018
FOMU becomes the playground of young Afro-European film talent. Expect an evening filled with fiction, great talks and an after party with DJ Sahra.
The Afropean Short Film Evening is part of the FOMU exhibition Claude Samuel Zanele. The evening will feature five short films of young Afropean filmmakers from Belgium. This evening is curated by RECOGNITION, in partnership with Afrika FilmFestival - Leuven (AFF) and FOMU.
Films include:
โถ La Mazda Jaune et sa Sainteté
Directed by: Sandra Heremans
Language: FR (ENG subs)
© Sonia Pastecchia
Tuesday, December 11, an evening at ICEBERG / BOZAR :
19:30h: SIC-participant 2018/2019 Sonia Pastecchia proposes you a SCREENING of excerpts of 'CUBA SI!' by Chris Marker, SALUT LES CUBAINS by Agnes Varda and her film 'ISLA'.
Free Entrance.
© Julia Clever
Tuesday, December 4 at BOZAR: SoundImageCulture presents: Two Avant-premières in Brussels.
In presence of the directors.
19 h: 'TRYING TO CATCH THE WIND' by Julia Clever (co-produced with Dérives and Centre de l'Audiovisuel à Bruxelles - CBA)
21 h: 'BEHIND THE SHUTTERS' by Messaline Raverdy (co-produced with Centre de l'Audiovisuel à Bruxelles - CBA)
Films developed in the framework of Sound Image Culture
'TRYING TO CATCH THE WIND' by Julia Clever (2018 / 60 min / German, French, English, French subtitles):
I have been filming my grandfather Wilhem since my adolescence. He was a former Wehrmacht soldier. Which questions had I asked him about his past? I can’t remember… After his death, I open a box with memories from WWII he had never shown anyone. What remains of that past in our stories today?
(Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur, Belgium, 2018)
© Messaline Raverdy
'BEHIND THE CURTAINS' by Messaline Raverdy (2017 / 50 min / French with English subtitles): Starting with an empty factory, a family name and a trunk of archives, the poetic stroll of an apprentice film-maker who moves in her grandmother's house. - This was me five years ago. - A reverie about oblivion and the invisible, woven of scattered materials, archival documents and language games, for a film-book wondering about the transformation of the female body, the question of an impossible transmission and the fabric of time.
(Best Film Award, Olhar de Cinema - Curitiba Int'l Film Festival, Brazil, 2018. Best Film Award, Festival de L'Acharnière, Lille, France, 2018, Best Film Award, Festival Aux Ecrans du réel, Mans, France 2018, International Film Festival Rotterdam - IFFR, 2019)
Reserve your free place by email before 03/12/18 within the limit of the available seats: soundimageculture@gmail.com
© Sandra Heremans © Amélie Derlon Cordina
Tuesday 27 / 11 at 19h00 : "La Mazda jaune et sa sainteté" by Sandra Heremans and "Saint'sGame" by Amélie Derlon Cordina, at Cinema Palace, Brussels, films developed in the framework of Sound Image Culture.
First screening of the CINÉ-CLUB Cinéma en Atelier of the FWB, with a Carte Blanche by SIC Sound Image Culture. Presentation of the book "Cinéma en Atelier" by Muriel Andrin. and presentation of the SIC by Jorge León. Screenings in the presence of the directors and discussion led by Bénédicte Liénard.
"La Mazda jaune et sa sainteté" by Sandra Heremans
(2018 / 10min) VO ST FR ENG
Synopsis:
A conceptual experiment on what it means to start a film with a black image, develops into a subtle personal essay about the filmmaker. The story of a missionary falling in love with a Rwandese girl, blends with what images and colonial history mean to their daughter.
(Firka - Film Festival, Kinshasa (RDC), 2018, Amiens Festival International du film d'Amiens, France, 2018 , Dok Leipzig Festival, Germany, 2018, IFFR International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Holland, 2018)
"Saint's Game" by Amélié Derlon Cordina
(2018 / 50min) VO ST FR ENG
Synopsis:
There are periods of strong awareness of sacred, and periods of desecration. The film begins with the image - and began in its process - by my own obsession with iconic representations, especially those of the Christian saints. At the turn of this work, while the actors replay scenes symbolizing saints, I question them about their attempts and willingness to break with their own cultural and religious heritage.
(Festival Cinéma du Réel, Paris, 2018, Award Video Art, Coté Court, Pantin, France, 2018, Award by Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP), FID Marseille 2017, French Competition 2017)
Wednesday 14 / 11 at 19:30 : "Ojo Guareña" by Edurne Rubio at Cinema Le Palace, Brussels
+ Conversation with Edurne Rubio and Charo Calvo
Co-organisation by SIC & Le p'tit ciné - Regards sur les Docs.
www.edurnerubio.org
Synopsis :
In the film OJO GUAREÑA we join a group of speleologists that enter the gigantic cave of the same name in Burgos, Spain. We barely notice the prehistoric traces and the contours of the spaces, but we can hear all the better: drops of water that, for ages, have been recreating the shape of the cave and continue to do so to date, as well as echoes of human footsteps. Edurne Rubio punctuates this soundscape with memories of the speleologists and revolutionary songs that denounce Franco's dictatorship. A journey through space and time.
(2018 / 56min)
Language: Spanish / Sub: English
Price: 6 € / Adresse: Cinéma Le Palace, 85, Boulevard Anspach, 1000 Brussels
Wednesday 14 / 11 at 10 h - 16 h : SOUND MASTERCLASS by CHARO CALVO at Pianofabriek, Brussels
The role of the sound in the dramaturgy of film documentary, fiction, experimental videos. Temporal relations between sound and image and its creative possibilities. Manipulation of natural sounds. Internal movement of sound and its spatial screening. Sound images, mental images induced by a particular sound. The use of soundscape as a form of music, free from first level source meaning. Sound design from the personal point of view of a electroacoustic composer.
Sound Design describes the idea that the sound heard when we experience a film, installation or performance, is not simply 'gathered', recorded, cut and put together; so there must be a person responsible for the overall design of the soundtrack, the sound designer. That person or team, is constructing the different layers of sound, from the foley till the use or music, or the ambiences causing physical sensations, in an aesthetically and stylistically appropriated manner. And in the best of cases, in collaboration with the director.
Free.
info and reservation: soundimageculture@gmail.com
An invitation by SIC in partnership with Le p'tit ciné - Regards sur les Docs / Le Mois du Doc.
Place: Pianofabriek
Rue du Fortstraat 35, 1060 St Gilles, Brussels
Biography
Charo Calvo is a Composer / Sound designer.
She worked for film soundtrack and sound design with Jan Fabre and Wim Vandekeybus, one of her last works being Antwerp Central (29th FIFA, Montréal Winner Grand Prix), directed by Peter Kruger and Monkey Sandwich from W. Vandekeybus presented at Venice Festival 2011.
She is a Professor Assistant in Composition for the Media at Mons Conservatory. Guest Professor at Rits Hogeschool on Sound Creation. She is also responsable for the coaching on Sound Design for DocNomads (Joint Master Degree Documentary Film Directing, Erasmus Mundus).
Her radio work has been selected on several festivals and contests.
charocalvo.org
26 octobre 2018 at Cinescope, at Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgiem.
A conference about the film "Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait" (Eau argentée, Syrie Autoportrait)
In relationship with the filmaker Bénédicte Liénard residency at UCL, the discussion will be about the work of the two Syrian artsits and filmakers : NOMA OMRAN and OSSAMA MOHAMED.
Synopsis :
Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (Arabic: ู ุงุก ุงููุถุฉ, French: Eau argentée, Syrie autoportrait) is a Syrian documentary film about the Syrian Civil War.
Shot by a reported “1,001 Syrians,” according to the filmmakers, Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait impressionistically documents the destruction and atrocities of the civil war through a combination of eye-witness accounts shot on mobile phones and posted to the internet, and footage shot by Bedirxan during the siege of Homs. Bedirxan, an elementary school teacher in Homs, had contacted Mohammed online to ask him what he would film, if he was there. Mohammed, working in forced exile in Paris, is tormented by feelings of cowardice as he witnesses the horrors from afar, and the self-reflexive film also chronicles how he is haunted in this dreams by a Syrian boy once shot to death for snatching his camera on the street.
The documentary includes some scenes of atrocities that Mohammed believes could only have been filmed by members of the Syrian government security forces. Mohammed and Bedirxan only met in person for the first time when she was able to escape Homs and attend the world premiere in France.
« EAU ARGENTEE , Syrie Autoportrait »
10h Accueil par Bénédicte Liénard et Sylvie Sarolea
10h15 Projection du film "Eau argentée"
12h15 Pause
13h30 Table ronde et mise en perspective du film
En présence de :
Ossama Mohamed, cinéaste
Noma Omran, cantatrice et compositrice
Mary Jimenez, cinéaste
Sébastien Févry, professeur en communication, COMU, UCL
Brigitte Van Wymeersch, professeur en musicologie, FIAL- INCA, UCL
Bénédicte Liénard, cinéaste et artiste en résidence à l’UCL
Jonathan Châtel, metteur en scène et professeur en études théâtrales, FIAL, UCL
Sylvie Saroléa, professeur en droit, EDEM, UCL
Charles Burquel, psychiatre, directeur du Service de santé mentale Le Méridien
15h00 Échanges avec la salle
15h30 Conclusions
16h00 Fin
Evènement gratuit sur inscription
© Julia Clever
"Trying to catch the wind" by Julia Clever (57'/2018/SIC/Dérives/CBA) is selected at Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur, Belgium !
Screening : Monday, 1st of October, at Grignoux (Cinéma Caméo et Caféo) 49, rue des Carmes, 5000, Namur, Belgium.
Synopsis :
My grandfather Wilhem was a former Wehrmacht soldier. I have been filming him since my adolescence. After his death, I opened a box with memories from WWII he never showed anyone. Did I ever question him on his past? I can’t remember...
© Amélie Derlon Cordina
"SAINTS'GAME" (SIC/2017) by Amélie derlon Cordina
will be screened at :
La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
the 18/09/2018 - 19:00
WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
15-30/10/2018
Les treize vents, Centre Dramatique National, Montpellier, France
13/11/2018 - 20:00
La Semaine Asymétrique, Polygone Etoilé, Marseille, France
24/11 to 02/12 - 2018
© Jorge León
Mitra by Jorge León (SIC - coach) is selected at the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur 2018 !
Saturday 29 / 9 & Sunday 30 / 9 at Namur, Belgium.
Production : Films de Force Majeure & Thank You & Good Night productions
Caméo 3
the 30/09 at 13:00
Caméo 4
The 29/09 at 18:15
FIRST COLLECTIVE SESSION SIC 2018 / 2019
Tuesday 11 / 9 & Wednesday 12 / 9 : 10 - 17 h at Pianofabriek :
We are looking forward to discover the projects of the participants.
Thursday 13 / 9 : 10 - 16 h at INSAS :
The coaches will present their work : Mary jiménez, Jorge Léon, Effi & Amir, Didier Volckaert, Eric Pauwels.
If you would like to participate at one or all of the events : Please send an email to : soundimageculture@gmail.com
Thursday 20 / 9 / 2018 at 18:30h a screening of "Sous la Douche le Ciel " by Effi & Amir at Mundo-b, Brussels.
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© Effi & Amir
"Sous la Douche le Ciel" by Effi & Amir
2018 / 85’/ CVB
Synopsis :
Five years in the making, the start-up of DoucheFLUX unfolds as a real nail-biter.
For five years, a group of Brussels citizens tries to find, finance and renovate a building to accommodate sanitary facilities that will allow the most vulnerable members of the city to “get freshened up and hold their heads high again”. Their administrative and financial assault course gives the film the aspect of a thriller. In Shower Power we see an idea become reality, demonstrating that imagination can be the engine of citizen action when the political horizon is blocked.
Ca s'débat !? - Sous la douche le ciel.
at 18:30.
Mundo-b
Rue d'Edimbourg, 26, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Congratulations !
"My home, in Libya" (66'/2018/Stefilm) by Martina Muso Melilli, is selected in Locarno Film Festival, Italy, August 2018.
and Visioni dal Mondo, Immagini dalla Realtà / Milano,Triennale Teatro dell'Arte , La Triennale di Milano, Italy, September 2018
© Martina Muso Melilli
My Home in Libya / 2018 / 66'
Synopsis :
Filming in her grandparents’ home near Padova in Italy, the director identifies a map of places belonging to their past. Antonio was born in Libya when it was an Italian colony, and he lived in Tripoli where he married Narcisa. They were suddenly forced to leave the country in 1970 just after Gaddafi’s coup. With the help of a young Libyan contacted on social media, Martina collects images of her grandparents’ “hometown” today. As they exchange pictures and chats, their relationship grows, the web allowing them to slowly overcome the physical and cultural boundaries that separate their lives, bringing the audience into a world the media has no access to.
Congratulations !
FUROR by Salomé Laloux-Bard will be screened at Festival de cinéma de Douarnenez "Peuples des Congo(s)" from the 17th until the 25th of August, 2018, France.
© Salomé Laloux-Bard
Furor / 2012 / 17'
Synopsis :
Serge is an actor with a past as child soldier in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Reality and fiction switch when he re-enacts his childhood in a theatrical rage.
MITRA by Jorge Leon received the Award "Marseille espérance" at the FID Marseille 2018 !
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© Jorge Léon
photo © Martina Melilli : The Fourth Day of School
A new cycle of SIC is starting in Brussels !
Good News!
Several grants are available to finance or co-finance your participation (fees) of the SIC cycle. Contact us for more information.
CALL FOR PROJECTS SIC 2018 / 2019
SoundImageCulture / SIC can make you break up the solitude of developing your audiovisual project on your own. It will open you to new possibilities and a collective that can assist you at different levels.
A 16-month-program in Brussels for a maximum of 10 participants :
Filmmakers, artists and anthropologists brainstorming collectively on your project, personal mentoring, encounters with international guests opening you to new points of view on your project, assistance in sound design and editing.
SoundImageCulture / SIC 2018 / 2019 starts in September 2018 and runs till December 2019.
SoundImageCulture / SIC is especially interested in films/videos project proposals in which artistic development goes together with an anthropological approach. The selection is based on an audiovisual project proposal submitted by the candidate which contains the following paragraphs:
> What is the subject of your project and why do you want to make it?
> What’s the relation between the author and his or her subject/ the 'other'?
> What is your formal approach?
> What is the relation between your subject and the form you choose?
Send us your project proposals :
A short description of your project (1- 3 pages), photos, web links, CV etc...
Deadline : June 30th 2018.
The interviews with selected persons will be held on July 9 and 10th, 2018.
Coaches 2018/2019
Effi & Amir, Mary Jiménez, Jorge Léon, Eric Pauwels, Didier Volckaert. Charo Calvo is the mentor for sound and Sabine Groenewegen the mentor for editing.
Former Guests :
Alexis Destoop, Angela Olga Anderson, Anja Dornieden & Juan David Gonzales Monroy, Ant Hampton, Ben Russell, Britt Hatzius, Dr. Chris Wright, David Toop, Eleonore de Montesquieu, Els Dietvorst, Ergin Cavusoglu, Federico Rossin, Geoffroy De Volder, Genevieve Yue, Itsushi Kawase, Jeff Silva, Kaveh Nabatian, Kristian Petersen, Leora Farber, Lonnie Van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, Louis Henderson, Meggy Rustamova, Mekhitar Garabedian, Mira Sanders, Pieter Geenen, Ursula Biemann, Wapke Feenstra...
Fee : 1200 €
Do not hesitate to contact us for any question !
> email : soundimageculture@gmail.com
Congratulations!
We're happy to announce that "SAINTS'GAME" (2017) by Amélie Derlon Cordina won the price Grand Prix Art Vidéo du Festival Côté Court, France, 2018 !
"DERRIERE LES VOLETS" (50'/2018/SIC - Behind the Shutters, coproduction CBA (Belgique)
Wins Le Grand Prix du Jury at the Festival de L'Acharnière, Lille, France, May 2018
and
Wins the Best Film award at Festival OLHAR DE CINEMA, Brasil, Novos Olhares section, June, 2018.
Synopsis :
Starting with an empty factory, a family name and a trunk of archives, the poetic stroll of an apprentice film-maker who moves in her grandmother's house when expecting her first child.
This was me five years ago.
A reverie about oblivion and the invisible, woven of scattered materials, archival documents and language games, for a film-book wondering about the transformation of the female body, the question of an impossible transmission and the fabric of time.
photo © Messaline Raverdy : Behind the Shutters
Tuesday 8 / 5 / 2018 at 9pm at the The Participatory Video Festival.
"Film is the celebration of a relationship" a quote by Jean Rouch and also the title of a program with Effi Weiss, Amir Borenstein, Christina Stuhlberger and An van. Dienderen (initiator of SIC). Screenings of the first scene of An van. Dienderen new film : 'Prism' (10') and Effi & Amir film 'Housewarming' (2016, 33'- made during SIC).
At De Koer in Ghent organized by The Participatory Video Festival.
Congratulations!
Ariane Loze (SIC 2015) and Lazara Rosell Albear (SIC 2014) both have their work that will be part of the Kanal - Pompidou collection.
Exhibition the 5th of May, 2018 at Kanal, Brussels.
Sunday 13 / 5 / 2018 at 18:30 at BOZAR, Next Generation, Please! Festival : Reflections on the Failure of the Letter H(eitch)
Lecture-Performance by Samah Hijawi (SIC 2016)
© Samah Hijawi
From her on-going work on the performativity and aesthetics of the political in art, Samah Hijawi presents parts of her new project which brings monumental artworks in Belgium, together with seminal artworks from Palestine. Through a narrative that travels across time, the performance explores the signs and symbols of history, of power and of loss in art, while reflecting on how these resonate in our urban spaces and our contemporary lives today.
Produced by PianoFabriek, Support: Moussem, State of the Art Flanders
Congratulations!
The Yellow Mazda and His Holiness (2018 - co produced by Atelier Graphoui) by Sandra Heremans (SIC 2015)
selected at :
Afrika Filmfestival, Leuven, Belgium APRIL 2018
Festival de Cine Africano – FCAT 20 - 30 MARCH 2018
Festival Millenium, Brussels, 20 MARCH
Screening at Beursschouwburg, Brussels 14 MARCH 2018
IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam, JANV - FEB 2018
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© Sandra Heremans
Wednesday 23 / 05 / 2018 at 18h at Mosaicrooms, London : CHICKEN SCRIBBLES AND THE DOVE THAT LOOKS LIKE A FROG, Lecture performance by Samah Hijawi (SIC 2016)
© Samah Hijawi
Chicken Scribbles and the Dove that Looks like a Frog is a lecture performance by artist Samah Hijawi, on art and political histories cantered around Palestine in the 1970’s. The narrative weaves fictive realities to question representation, nostalgia as well as hegemonic discourses surrounding Arab and Western art of this era. Inspired by a conversation with artist Mhanna Durra, who offhandedly critiques the symbols of ‘politically engaged art’ by describing them as pigeons that look like frogs; the performance subjectively confronts this romanticised era with its failures.
The work was supported by Moussem and AM Qattan Foundation
Congratulations !
SAINT’S GAME by Amélie Derlon Cordina (SIC 2016)
selected at :
Festival COTE COURT, Pantin - Art/Video Competition, 6 - 16 JUNE 2018
Festival CINEMA DU REEL, Paris, 23 - 31 MARCH 2018
Institut Français d'Alger, Carte blanche by FID Marseille, 20 JANUARY 2018
Festival FILMER A TOUT PRIX, Brussels, 23 NOV - 2 DEC 2017
Festival Actoral, Marseille, 26 SEPT-14 OCT 2017
09 - 11 / 05 / 2018 : MITRA , a music-theatre by SIC-coach Jorge Léon at KFDA / Halles de Schaerbeek :
© Jorge Léon
Unfolding at the point where opera, documentary film, and installation meet, Mitra is an emotional tale of taboos, oppression, resistance, and solidarity based on theexperience of Iranian psychoanalyst Mitra Kadivar. In Teheran, Kadivar dedicatedly helped people with mental health issues, leading to her detainment in 2012, as a punishment for her professional practice. Filmmaker Jorge León loudly resounds Kadivar’s isolated cry of resistance, togetherwith Ictus Ensemble and Muziektheater Transparant. Her veracity is evidencedthrough the eye of the camera, the intonation of the voice, the timbre of the music. Mitra is a daring performance that portrays a tragic archetype of female heroismand illustrates both the resilience and the fragility of humankind.
Samedi 27 / 01 / 18 : Mathieu Corman, Traces. A platform for phantoms of the past by Greet Brauwers (SIC 2016)
screening at Chambre d'O, Huiskamer Festival at Ostend.
Friday 08 / 11 / 2017 at 19h at 50 ans du cinema Belge at CINEMATHEK : DU VERBE AIMER by SIC-coach Mary Jiménez:
Mary Jiménez goes back to Peru after her mother has been dead for a few years. This is the point of departure for a research and an impossible as much as necessary encounter with the memory of her mother. The film is the multi-faceted trace of this research through fragments and places, casting a simultaneously visionary and very lucid gaze onto her homeland, her own places, and her beloved ones. Du verbe aimer is an autobiographical film and a poetical essay on memory becoming story. A film about madness as well as a journey in self-awareness and the discovery of oneself by way of images.
1- 17 / 09 / 2017 : ACTUAL SIZE REAL TIME #1 PARTIAL VIEWS by Julie Pfleiderer (SIC 2012) and Miriam Rohde at DESIGN MUSEUM GENT / 019 MUSEUM FOR MOVING PRACTICE.
Friday 1 / 09 from 19 -23 h : Opening
© Julie Pfleiderer, Miriam Rohde
Sunday 10 / 09 / 2017 at 17:30 h at WIELS : YOKO OSHA by Lazara Resell Albear (SIC 2014)
The screening is followed by the solo performance "unsurrounded XI".
Lazara's new film "Yoko Osha: Volume II", drawings on paper and textiles, Lithographies, Silkscreens,installations, performances and the unexpected "somewhere, somehow, somebody" will be part of the group show "Something Stronger Than Me" at WIELS curated by Rita Mcbride, Willem Oorebeek, Devrim Bayar. September 15th - January 7th, 2018.
COM ∩∪ TIES . seuils/drempels/thresholds - a duo show at ISELP & ARGOS features works by Els Opsomer, Effi Weiss & Amir Borenstein (SIC 2014) and Miguel Peres dos Santos (SIC 2014).
On view from 23 September - 17 December 2017. Opening ISELP 22.09.2017 18:00-21:00, Opening ARGOS 23.09.2017 18:00 - 21:00
Wednesday 27 / 09 at 18:00h at ISELP : A conversation about HOUSEWARMING by Effi Weiss & Amir Borenstein (SIC 2014) and other works with Florence Cheval and the audience.
HOUSEWARMING is also programmed at the Apricot Tree Documentary Film Festival (Ethnography and Anthropology), Yerevan and Ujan, Armenia
and - together with a work by Virgile Fraisse- at Saison Video, an online curated platform.
23 / 09 - 17 / 12 / 2017 : Ariane Loze (SIC 2015) & Justine Pluvinage show at the Biennale Watch This Space 9 at ISELP, curated by Catherine Henkinet).
Friday 22 / 09 . 18h30 -21h : Opening / Activation
Saturday 30 / 09 . 8-20 h : Artconnexion, Lille - CRP/ Douchy-les-Mines et l’ISELP + meet the artistes
Sunday 17 /12 . 15 - 18 h : Finissage with performance by Ariane Loze
ITALIAN-AFRICAN RHYZOME. A choreography for camera (+voice) by Martina Melilli (SIC 2015) at Lago Film Festival in Revine Lago 2017.
The first version of the film was made while working on 'My Home in Lybia' (working title) at SIC in 2015.
'My Home in Lybia' is currently produced by Stefilm in co-production with ZDF-ARTE and Rai Cinema, with the support of the Italian Film Institute, which also recognized it as being of cultural interest.
Congratulations !
SAINT’S GAME by Amélie Derlon Cordina (SIC 2016), co-produced by GSARA, le CBA et l'AJC! received 'Le prix du Centre National des Arts Plastiques' at FID Marseille 2017 !
The film is in distribution at ARGOS.
© Amélie Derlon Cordina
Gyuto by Filipa Cardoso (SIC 2016) is produced by Koan Production. Film website : www.gyuto-movie.com
Demeure (working title) by Lucie Martin (SIC 2015) is co-produced by Gsara, Brussels
LES ENFANTS DE LA POULE by Florence Aigner (SIC 2013) is out on CD now !
Les enfants de la poule is produced by Polymorfilms and l'Atelier Graphoui, with the help of the Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles.
> Listen to the radio-documentary here.
HOUSEWARMING by Effi Weiss & Amir Borenstein (SIC 2014) is selected to the international competition section of the ARKIPEL Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival !
The film is supported by CFWB (Center for Cinema and Audiovisual of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation) and The Flemish Film Fund (VAF).
For oralsite.be Effi & Amir created a digital publication on the project. HOUSEWARMING is also programmed to feature on the online curated platform Saison Video (in October 2017)
© Effi Weiss & Amir Borenstein
SIC PRESENTATIONS !
Thursday 23 / 2 from 15 - 01 h & Friday 24 / 2 from 10 - 15:30 h at Beursschouwburg :
© Samah Hijawi
Program
Thursday 23 / 2 :
15 - 18 h Installations in Grand Hall & Studio
Bruno Vandenberghe : Mumbo Jumbo & Janine Prins : Erfenis van stilte – Legacy of Silence
17 - 24 h Presentations in Golden Hall
17 h Radio - Documentary : Florence Aigner : Les enfants de la poule, in French - no subtitles
18 h Films : Julia Clever : Nihil Mortui
Sandra Heremans : Projection
Greet Brauwers : Mathieu Corman, Traces
20 h - 20:30 h Break
20:30 h Lecture Performance : Samah Hijawi : Chicken Scribbles and the Dove that Looks like a Frog
Film : Amélie Derlon Cordina : Un film pauvre - A Vow of Poverty
22 : 15 h - 22: 45 h Break
22 : 45 h Animated Documentary : Amir Yatziv : Another Planet
Presentations : Janine Prins : Prologue : Erfenis van stilte – Legacy of Silence & Bruno Vandenberghe : Mumbo Jumbo
24 h Performance in Grand Hall
Bruno Vandenberghe : Mumbo Jumbo Live-Mix
Afterparty at L'Archipel, Kiekenmarkt / Marché aux poulets 12-14!
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Friday 24 / 2 :
10 - 15:30 h Installations in Grand Hall & Studio
Bruno Vandenberghe : Mumbo Jumbo & Janine Prins : Erfenis van stilte – Legacy of Silence
12 - 14 h Brainstorm-session in Conference Room : The Future of SIC
Before summer SIC got the news that the organisation will not get structural funding for the period 2017 - 2022. This summer SIC worked hard on an application to fund a project for 2017-2018 called Fragile Fragments. In January we got the news that we will not get that funding either. Both times SIC got a positive advice from the commission that was not honoured by the Ministry. Therefore SIC is looking for alternative ways to continue its activities. In order to organise strategies for a possible future, SIC invites former and recent participants to join for a group discussion on the following questions: What is the place of SIC in the Brussels audiovisual landscape? What does SIC stand for today? How do we see the future of SIC with or without funding? All ideas, feedback, opinions are welcome!
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Janine Prins : Erfenis van stilte – Legacy of silence
Mixed media installation
© Janine Prins
Looking in the mirror, I notice pigmented skin due to a partially Indo-European background. What else is lurking everywhere as a result of this heritage? As an anthropologist-filmmaker I like working closely with familiar ‘others’ such as friends and relatives to unravel general topics subjectively. This time my aunt provided me with things, documents and worldviews from the Dutch East Indies. The installation brings it all together in a pop-up workspace.
Projectsupport: stichting docuprins, Equipment: Leiden University, Alex Pitstra, JP, Lodging: Jan Karremans, Carolina Diaz.
Bruno Vandenberghe : Mumbo Jumbo
Multimedia Installation & Performance
© Bruno Vandenberghe
Bruno Vandenberghe is a graphic artist and DJ. In this installation he uses both skills to demonstrate 'the cartographical failure of the ethnographical DJ-mix'. The installation is made of 5 different films, dealing with language, patterns, travel pictures, dots, record sleeves & other Mumbo Jumbo. The immersive sensorial space that he creates can only be completely different from the amalgam of found footage/sounds that's buried in the mix.
This will be combined with mind-maps in which he enjoyed the drift that happens inside the 'technology' of language, turntables, audio and video-editing, paper and ink.
Florence Aigner : Les enfants de la poule
Radio-Documentary
© Florence Aigner
This radio documentary is a testimony of the last generation of Algerian Jews, born in the country itself. 'les enfants de la poule' starts with a personal quest of the author and her mother and is constructed of different voices. Voices that were collected with persons remembering this Jewish-Arab-Berber existence.'ouled del djej', 'les enfants de la poule' : mother's womb, filiation, protagonists of different horizons and experiences, born one day in Algeria.
by Florence Aigner, assisted by Anne Penders and Cyril Mossé, Music by Fatoum, produced by Polymorfilms and l'atelier Graphoui, with the help of the Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles > Listen to the radio-documentary here.
Julia Clever : Nihil mortui - work in progress
© Julia Clever
When my family moved house last year, war-testimonies of my deceased grandfather fell out of the closet:
A photoalbum he had never shown us, a story he’d never told us, and a note: “nihil mortui nisi bene”.
In this personal project, I trace transformations of our memories by linking his narrations to footage from my video archive and my research on war-re-enactment.
Sandra Heremans : Projection
© Sandra Heremans
The filmmaker questions her father’s archive from her own position in society. The pictures, letters and footage that he left her, are the witnesses of his past life and attest his changed way of seeing the world. Her Belgian father arrived in the 60’s for the first time in Rwanda as a missionary (Witte Pater) and decided later to end his religious life to marry her Rwandan mother.
Greet Brauwers : Mathieu Corman, Traces
A platform for phantoms of the past - work in progress
© Greet Brauwers
Mathieu Corman was a key witness of crucial 20th-century events. The first reporter to wire testimonies of Hitler's destruction of Guernica, he joined the Belgian resistance only a few years later. As an immersion writer he crossed the Balkans, travelled behind the 'Iron curtain' in his campervan in the '50s and discovered Asian to collect personal narratives. At his bookshops (a.o. opposite 'Bozar' in Brussels), he led the anti-censorship guerrilla in the '60 and '70s.
Traveling to places where the deficiency of memory meets the inadequacy of documentation, the film creates a fragmented image of Corman and summons this phantom of the past by giving him a platform to present himself. Valuable truths can be found within the forgotten waste-yard of history. As if it's all over.
Samah Hijawi : Chicken Scribbles and the Dove that Looks like a Frog
Lecture Performance
© Samah Hijawi
In an interview with Mhanna Durra, a painter based in Jordan, he described the effects that political events in Palestine had on the practice of painting as, “People would paint a dove, and the dove would look like a frog… and they would call it my homeland”. This lecture performance takes the duality embedded within the collapse of two creatures, two symbols -the dove and the frog- as an entry point to explore representation and symbols in politically engaged art. This piece will navigate through the absurdities that lie between utopia and reality, art and activism, and the transformation of image making into the production of symbols.
Support by AM Qattan Foundation in Palestine, and Moussem and the Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium.
Amélie Derlon Cordina : Un film pauvre - A Vow of Poverty - work in progress
© Amélie Derlon Cordina
There are periods of strong awareness of sacred, and periods of desecration.
The film begins with the image - and began in its process - by my own obsession with iconic representations, especially those of the Christian saints. At the turn of this work, while the actors replay (mimic) scenes symbolizing saints, I question them about their attempts and willingness to break with their own cultural and religious heritage.
a film by Amélie Derlon Cordina, with Rimah Jabr, Oskar Petzet, Timur Magomedgadzhiev & Amélie Derlon Cordina, assisted by Julien Englebert, collection / distribution: Argos vzw
Amir Yatziv : Another Planet
Animated Documentary
A journey to the depths of imagination and reconstructed memory, in one of the most emotionally charged site of the 20th century.
A state prosecutor, gamers, a graphic designer, a historian and an architect are using the tools of the future to investigate the past. They wander inside the virtual worlds of their own creation. Created as a mosaic of encounters inside the virtual models of Auschwitz, the film reveals the obsession with memory and with the "Other Planet”.
an animated documentary by Amir Yatziv, editing by Didier Volckaert, sound design by Nati Zeidenstadt, costume design by Irie Yatziv, script advise by Elad Weingrod, produced by Amir Yatziv & Jonathan Doweck. > see the trailer here
Looking forward to meet you !
DOCUMENTATION NOW ONLINE :
See here the public conversation of Els Opsomer with Sammy Baloji at SIC : Collective Practices 22 / 09 at Beursschouwburg.
MORE NEWS :
Saturday 28 / 01 at 16:30 h & Sunday at 11:45 h at IFFR, International Film Festival Rotterdam 2017 :
ANOTHER PLANET, the SIC project of Amir Yatziv ( SIC 2016 )
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© Amir Yatziv
A journey to the depths of imagination and reconstructed memory, in one of the most emotionally charged site of the 20th century. A state prosecutor, gamers, a graphic designer, a historian and an architect are using the tools of the future to investigate the past; They wander inside the virtual worlds of their own creation. Created as a mosaic of encounters inside the virtual models of Auschwitz, the film reveals the obsession with memory and with the "Other Planet".
watch the TRAILER.
Friday 13 / 01 & Saturday 14 / 01 at 20 h at La Raffinerie, Brussels :
Uni*Form by SIC - coach Jorge León and Simone Aughterlony
© Jorge León and Simone Aughterlony
Uni * Form, piece for 7 performers.
Between desire and submission, when power is no longer child’s play. In a world in which surveillance is omnipresent, giving an illusion of safety, Jorge León and Simone Aughterlony overturn the rules and clichés. Seven performers dressed as police officers question their appearance, their function, this power scrutinising us, our submission to it, the games of desire and domination that replace children's games, widespread standardisation and the possibilities of resistance… See the trailer here.
Wednesday 07 / 12 - Sunday 11 / 12 from 11 - 18 h at ARGOS :
WE CAME TO DANCE by SIC-coach Didier Volckaert
Daily screened every hour from 11am to 6pm.
© Didier Volckaert
World Exhibitions are twilight zones in which actual knowledge about the world and exoticism go together with sexual projection and frustration. Till deep into the 20th century, the then superpowers used "Human Zoos" to spread the worldview that “we” are part of civilization, whereas there are others who are not. Departing from the parallels with amusement park the documentary establishes links with our present infotainment society and the position of media (incl. the documentary itself) as an intermediary and identity determining factor for the audience. Is the motto “To see is to know”, which once adorned an anthropological pavilion, still valid?
until Sunday 18 / 12 from 11 - 18 h, also at ARGOS :
VIOLIN FASE by SIC-coach Eric Pauwels
in the exhibition 'STEP UP! - Chapter 1. Belgian Dance and Performance on Camera 1970-2000'.
© Eric Pauwels
A solo in two movements; dance and camera. Eric Pauwels twirls the camera around the body of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. What we see is not the geometrical and minimalist choreographic structure, but a possessed woman, bathing in sweat, exploring the boundaries of physical exhaustion. A solo in two movements: the dance and the camera. Four uninterrupted takes. Pauwels is constantly looking for the essence, the soul of cinema. In its explicit presence the camera is also driven to its extreme, perspiration, hardship. Pauwels is not concerned with beautiful shots, but with the investigation.
Monday 5 / 12 & Tuesday 6 / 12 from 10 - 17 h at Pianofabriek :
Collective Session with Kaveh Nabatian
SIC Participants 2016 will present and discuss their projects in development in the collective : Amélie Derlon Cordina, Amir Yatziv, Annelein Pompe, Bruno Vandenberghe, Caszimir Cleutjens, Filipa Cardoso, Greet Brauwers, Janine Prins, Julia Clever, Samah Hijawi and Sophie Sherman.
Wednesday 7 / 12 from 10 - 17 h at Pianofabriek :
Masterclass with Kaveh Nabatian : Strategies of Hallucinatory Documentary : Ritual, Fever Dreams, and Unreality
This seminar will explore ways of seeing, hearing, and immersing ourselves in the realities that surround us so that, as documentary filmmakers, we can evoke the emotional and sensorial truths that often bear little relation to “objective” truths. Through music, film screenings, discussions, and practical exercises we will seek to question our perception of reality in order to inform the ways in which we express it.
© Kaveh Nabatian
Wednesday 7 / 12 at 19:30 h at Cinema Aventure :
SIC invites Kaveh Nabatian. An evening with films & debate on Hallucinatory Documentary
© Kaveh Nabatian
"I aspire to make films that have the immediacy of music, and to make music that has the evocative energy of film." Kaveh Nabatian has spent the last decade directing and shooting fiction films, music videos, television series, and feature-length documentaries all over the world: from Nunavut, Haiti, and South Africa, to New York and Montreal. Past collaborations include Arcade Fire, The Barr Brothers, Kahlil Joseph, and Socalled. With his Juno award-winning band, Bell Orchestre, he released two records, toured everywhere from the Baltics to the Yukon, and collaborated with the likes of LaLaLa Human Steps and the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra. He also makes music for film, dance, various ensembles, orchestra, and theatre. Committed to exchanges with aspiring filmmakers in communities with limited infrastructure, he has taught filmmaking at the Cine Institute in Haiti, where he continues to work and develop projects with Haitian filmmakers and writers, as well as in the Algonquin community of Kitigan Zibi.
The evening will feature colourful films & debates :
NAN LAKOU KANAVAL by Kaveh Nabatian : A journey through the Haitian carnival as experienced by a young woman, this film straddles the lines between documentary, visual poem, and hallucination. Filmed in hyper-saturated 16mm, angels of death and groups of men covered in black syrup battle a giant “Master of Midnight” with fire blazing in his eyes to the beat of Haitian rara and raboday music. Created in collaboration with the director’s students from the Cine Institute in Jacmel, Haiti, and based on a poem by young Haitian poet Gabriel Wood Jerry.
HOLIKA by Kaveh Nabatian : On one day during Holi celebrations every year, veiled women in the northern Indian towns of Nandgaon and Barsana strike men with large staffs, re-enacting an ancient Hindu legend. A fever dream of light, colour, and violence.
VOLE VOLE TRISTESSE by Myriam Charles : Following a nuclear explosion that transforms the voice of all the inhabitants of an island, a Finnish journalist goes there in order to find a hermit with mysterious powers.
ACCLERE CHAPULTEPEC by Kaveh Nabatian : A hallucinatory 16mm dance, between sleep and wakefulness, starring the enthusiastic traffic cops of Mexico City. Set to music by the filmmaker’s band Bell Orchestre.
VAPOR by Kaveh Nabatian: Set in Mexico City over the course of a single day, this is the true story of an older man’s decision to accept his homosexuality. Told without any dialogue, this is a cinematic exploration of shame, catharsis, and ultimately, transcendence.
DIVE by Kaveh Nabatian : An urban fairy tale about an emotionless young man who lives in a dystopian Montreal where humans coexist with hypersensitive white-eyed beings. One day, he sees a mysterious girl who changes his life.
MYNARSKI DEATH PLUMMET by Matthew Rankin : A completely hand-made historical micro-epic about the final minutes in the life of Winnipeg’s doomed Second World War hero, Andrew Mynarski. Combining wartime aviation agitprop with classical and avant-garde animation techniques, Mynarski Death Plummet is a psychedelic photo-chemical war picture on the theme of self-sacrifice, immortality and jellyfish.
ATLANTIS by Ben Russell : Loosely framed by Plato's invocation of the lost continent of Atlantis in 360 BC and its re-re-resurrection via a 1970s science fiction pulp novel, Atlantis is a documentary portrait of Utopia - an island that has never / forever existed beneath our too-mortal feet. Herein is folk song and pagan rite, religious march and reflected temple, the sea that surrounds us all. Even as we are slowly sinking, we are all happy and content.
Tickets for 9,5 / 8 € at : Cinema Aventure : Rue des Fripiers 15 Kleerkopersstraat : Galerie du Centre 57 Bloc II - Centrumgalerij Blok II : Bruxelles 1000 Brussel : Tel : +32 (0)2 219 92 02 : Fax : +32 (0)2 201 44 02 : info@cinema-aventure.be
Thursday 8 / 12 from 10 - 17 h at Pianofabriek :
Individual Feedback with Kaveh Nabatian
Thursday 8 /12 at 19 h at ARGOS :
SIC : Artist Talk & Debate with Mira Sanders : 'Inland Voyages in an Inland Voyage'
In the context of her current exhibition at ARGOS Mira Sanders will give insights in her working methods and explores ideas of navigation and narration. The event is in English and moderated by SIC-coach Els Opsomer. Free entrance.
© Mira Sanders
Navigating. We rarely think about it, and yet for most of us it is an everyday activity. Internet, Google Maps, GPS, etcetera: who can do without them?
Mira Sanders was deeply touched by Robert Louis Stevenson’s travel story An Inland Voyage (1878). She translates Stevenson’s writings into ‘a subjective map’: 22 panels that have been created for the upper floor at Argos, with its distinctive features. Step by step, Sanders’s monumental work depicts concepts Stevenson writes about in his travelogue, but also things he does not mention, namely references to the present or personal reflections. Furthermore, Sanders invited Guðný Rósa Ingimarsdóttir, Filip Berte, Jan Kopp, Erwan Mahéo and Cédric Noël to participate in the project and draw fragments of this imaginary landscape. A film screening presents a new version to the public. The historical and contemporary way of dealing with territory and navigation interweaves with a reflection on the language of cinema.
Mira Sanders’ (BE, 1973) work evolves around the history and evolution of tourism, increased mobility and the democratization of travel. ‘Journal pour un usager de l’espace’ is the generic title she has so far given to her overall artistic practice. In a way, Mira Sanders could be seen as some sort of discreet, but efficient and critical, explorer investigating the world around her in an attempt to re-observe, re-look at, re-discover and re-hear not only the things, but also the beings as well as the structures that interconnect them and within which they actually or supposedly function. She does so from a personal point of view, but simultaneously tries, when making a work or doing a research, to also adopt the viewpoint of the object or subject she observes and analyses.
Thursday 24 / 11 at 21:30 h at IDFA , International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam :
VOICES by Miguel Peres Dos Santos ( SIC 2014 )
© Miguel Peres dos Santos
That one is able to speak does not mean that one has a voice. In Voices, Miguel Peres do Santos constructs a comparison between the collective consciousness and a censored archive.
Just like in our own lives, we “choose” to keep what we do not want to remember as far from our consciousness as we unconsciously can; the same method we apply on public archival material that we would rather not be confronted with as a societal whole. At the television archive of Beeld and Geluid, Miguel Peres dos Santos and Sharelly Emanuelson found a significant amount of footage relating to migration from the public television memory of the Netherlands. In it, the essence of the Dutch relation to the alleged “other” can be viewed. In Voices Peres dos Santos uses this material to try to find out if the perceived voiceless were really silent, and if those who do not have a voice today are only mute to the ones who refuse to listen.
Wednesday 23 / 11 at 20h at GC Ten Weyngaert :
BUREAU DE CHOMAGE by Charlotte Grégoire (SIC 2009) & Anne Schiltz.
followed by a discussion with Rudy Janssens, Khadija Khourcha and Stephane Roberti, moderated by Magali Plovie, Coprésidente d’Ecolo Forest.
© Charlotte Grégoire & Anne Schiltz
BUREAU DE CHOMAGE (Employment Office) - In an office, a row of desks, with people facing each other. This is where unemployed people come to meet with their advisors. At stake: their benefit payments. Here everyone has to abide by the same rigid procedure and bureaucracy but each has their own life, their own story. This film shows what it means today to have a job, when work is more and more precarious, employed and unemployed alike less and less secure, and the welfare state is shrinking away and under attack.
Tuesday 22 / 11 at 21 h at CINEMATEK :
VOUS ÊTES ICI by SIC-coach Jorge Léon
© Jorge Léon
Vous êtes ici / You are here : A documentary by Jorge Léon, 2006 : During an operation, the filmmaker took a camera along with him. He plunged into unconscious. We are here in the worlds he discovers, on the edge of words, on the boundaries of the body. This is were borders create painful separations, borders of a prison, the street, war, the mind. In this shattered mirror of reality, others look at us, others who could be us.
Sunday 20 / 11 at 17 h CINEMATEK Brussels:
BAFF, Brussels Art Film Festival : pepsi, cola, water ? by Tom Bogaert (SIC 2014)
© Tom Bogaert
Jazz pioneer and philosopher Sun Ra had a deep fascination with outer space and ancient Egypt. Computer animation, archival footage, and music from Sun Ra are interwoven to create a recreation/celebration of his legendary visit to Egypt in 1971. The result is a film as far out as Sun Ra himself.
Thursday 17 / 11 at 18:30 h at ARGOS :
Le Week-end du Doc : LA DEUXIÈME NUIT by Eric Pauwels
© Eric Pauwels
On the death of his mother, a filmmaker makes a film to see how much her disappearance has changed his vision of the world. It is an opportunity for him to look back over his relationship with her: a relationship that made him a free individual, as a man and as a filmmaker. La deuxième nuit (The second night, 2016) is the final part of a trilogy that began with Lettre d'un cinéaste à sa fille (Letter from a filmmaker to his daughter, 2000), which was followed by Les films rêvés (Dreaming films, 2009). The making of this Cabin Trilogy is the fruit of fifteen years of work and reflection.
La deuxième nuit. 2016, video, 60', French spoken, English subtitles.
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until Sunday 18 / 12 from 11 - 18 h at ARGOS :
'Violin Fase' by SIC-coach Eric Pauwels is presented in the exhibition 'STEP UP! - Chapter 1. Belgian Dance and Performance on Camera 1970-2000'.
Wednesday 02 / 11 - Sunday 06 / 11 from 11 - 18 h at ARGOS :
Films by Miguel Peres dos Santos ( SIC 2014 ) : There are no images & Voices
The program is daily screened in loop from 11 - 18 h.
© Miguel Peres dos Santos
'There are no images' is a proposal on a reflection upon a possible link between image and memory; between image and moment; and between image and death. A father, a son and a dead child engage in a dialogue constructed departing from a moment. “does an image die?”; “and if an image dies”… “what will happen to memory?”.
In 'Voices', Miguel Peres dos Santos constructs a comparison between the collective consciousness and a censored archive. Just like in our own lives, we “choose” to keep what we do not want to remember as far from our consciousness as we unconsciously can; the same method we apply on public archival material that we would rather not be confronted with as a societal whole. At the television archive of Beeld and Geluid, Miguel Peres dos Santos and Sharelly Emanuelson found a significant amount of footage relating to migration from the public television memory of the Netherlands. In it, the essence of the Dutch relation to the alleged “other” can be viewed. In 'Voices' Peres dos Santos uses this material to try to find out if the perceived voiceless were really silent, and if those who do not have a voice today are only mute to the ones who refuse to listen.
Monday 24 / 10 & Tuesday 25 / 10 from 10 - 17 h at Beursschouwburg :
Collective Session with David Toop
SIC Participants 2016 will present and discuss their projects in development in the collective : Amélie Derlon Cordina, Amir Yatziv, Annelein Pompe, Bruno Vandenberghe, Caszimir Cleutjens, Filipa Cardoso, Greet Brauwers, Janine Prins, Julia Clever, Samah Hijawi, Sophie Sherman and Zimu Zhang.
Wednesday 26 / 10 from 10 - 17 h at Beursschouwburg :
Seminar with David Toop
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© David Toop
“In a society organized round objective psychological measurement, the power to listen is a potentially iconoclastic one,” writes William Davies in The Happiness Industry. “There is something radical about privileging the sensory power of the ear in a political system designed around that of the eye.” Listening to others, to the world, is a start but how to organise, be active, collaborate, from the point of listening? Art gobbled up by hypercapitalism, academia quantised, music colonised by digital entrepreneurs - this is the context of necessity in which to develop new formats of exchange based on listening. Is listening necessarily an act of hearing audio information or is it more productive to think of it as receptivity, attention, a channel through which to break down the rigid authoritarian formats through which events are structured?
Working in a space between performance, conversation and seminar David Toop will speak about interrelationships of theory and practice, writing and action, describe performance tactics based on available materials, autonomous objects and listening practice, explore the ways in which drawing, writing, oral history, reading and auto-ethnography have become enfolded into his approach to improvisation, auscultate the undercurrents of four of his most recent publications: the LP, Entities Inertias Faint Beings (2016); the book, Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom (2016); the CD/LP, Lost Shadows: In Defence of the Soul – Yanomami Shamanism, Songs, Ritual, 1978 (2015); the book, Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener (2010).
Tuesday 18 / 10 at 12h live on radio Panik: fm 105.4 or www.radiopanik.org :
'les enfants de la poule' , a radiodocumentary by Florence Aigner (SIC 2013).
The broadcast is followed by an interview with the author and her co-creator Anne Penders.
© Florence Aigner
This radio documentary is a testimony of the last generation of Algerian Jews, born in the country itself.
'les enfants de la poule' starts with a personal quest of the author and her mother and is constructed of different voices. Voices that were collected with persons remembering this Jewish-Arab-Berber existence.
'ouled del djej', 'les enfants de la poule' : mother's womb, filiation, protagonists of different horizons and experiences, born one day in Algeria.
by Florence Aigner, assisted by Anne Penders and Cyril Mossé, Music by Fatoum, produced by Polymorfilms and l'atelier Graphoui, with the help of the Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles; SIC 2013.
Wednesday 21 / 09 & Thursday 22 / 09 at Beursschouwburg :
SoundImageCulture (SIC) : Collective Practices
© Julie Pfleiderer
For two full days, SoundImageCulture (SIC) – a workspace for artists, filmmakers and anthologists – is opening a window into its working processes. The focus of this two-day workshop is collectivity. Working collectively is central to the practices of SIC, as it allows artists and anthologists to reflect together about (the aesthetic and formal conventions of) documentary working methods. SIC helps coach artists with collective seminaries, personal advice, group discussions and dialogue. For that indispensable eye of the outsider, SIC regularly invites external artists and critics to participate.
There are different ways to discover how SIC works, from collective observation and listening sessions concerning new works in progress to projects that have been realized in recent years within the workplace. On Thursday, SIC will be hosting Sammy Baloji. In addition to revealing his proposal for a new video work, to be created 'in dialogue' with SIC Films, he will share his perspective of how SIC operates.
While you are here, do not forget to browse through the SIC Media Library and have a look at the films that SIC has completed down through the years!
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© Effi Weiss & Amir Borenstein
PROGRAM
Wednesday 21 / 09 from 17- 23 h
> 17 h (ongoing) SIC-Medialibrary : On the monitors in the Red Hall, discover a wide selection of SIC films from 2007 to today.
> 18 h Collective Viewing Mirador by Pieter Geenen with introduction & fingerfood : Brussels artist Pieter Geenen was previously hosted at SIC, where he presents his latest film, shot in the Straits of Gibraltar, on looking at Africa and Europe.
> 19 h Screenings of ongoing SIC projects and several SIC films illustrating the collective practice, followed by discussions with the filmmakers :
Martina Melilli (SIC 2015): Il quarto giorno di scuola / The fourth day of school (5’) . Martina Melilli makes a film with her father. He reminisces about his childhood in Tripoli, while she adds archive material and takes it beyond the individual experience. Il quarto giorno di scuola is a project Melilli took on at one of the workshops at SIC. Meanwhile, she continues to work on her film about the Tripolitalians in which she combines the colonial history of her (grand)parents with the current situation in Libya and Italy.
Effi Weiss and Amir Borenstein (SIC 2014): Housewarming (33’). Effi Weiss & Amir Borenstein assume the role of Goldilocks and emigrate to Albania, where they occupy the empty and unfinished houses. They fill the desolate emptiness and work together with local actors and an Albanian iso-polyphonic choir which responds to their invasion with words and songs.
Miguel Peres dos Santos (SIC 2014): There are no Images (14’). An invitation to reflect on the possible link between image and memory, between image and moment, between image and death. A father, a son and a dead child in a dialogue that arises in the moment. “Does an image die?” “and if an image dies” … “what happens to the memory?”
Margaux Schwarz (SIC 2014): Chacun Sa technique (31’). A common struggle is what connects the characters in this story. Through Pierre-Charles, man of the street in Brussels, a network of contacts, a network of ‘others’ develops.
Julie Pfleiderer (SIC 2012): Infinite Jetz (18’). Three people together bring one story. All three are, like the filmmaker, akin to immigrants in the same city. By sharing that one story about (at least) three people, a fragmented memory, a fragmented identity comes about.
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© Salomé Laloux-Bard
Thursday 22 / 09 from 14 - 23 h
> 14 h (ongoing) SIC-Medialibrary : On the monitors in the Red Hall, discover a wide selection of SIC films from 2007 to today.
> 14 - 17 h Collective Session : Presentation & discussion of the ongoing collective project : A last piece of common land, an ongoing collective project initiated by the SIC participants of 2016. The painting Cornard Wood by Thomas Gainsborough: a forest scene in 1748, a period when the English common ground, where everyone could gather wood and food, was abolished by capitalist landowners. Participants work on the themes of Brussels, Europe and cinema (or image in the broadest sense of the word). Where are we in this Europe and its common ground? Where are we with the cinema as a shared heritage of signs, gestures and images?
> 18 h Autopia : presentation of a collective book, initiated by Eva La Cour (SIC 2012). 'Autopia' is the catalogue for XX’s show of the same name, as well as a speculative statement about current conditions for visual production and exhibition-making. The catalogue is part of the Museum’s Common Grounds series, meaning it uses an editorial process characterised by conversations involving different partners.
> 19 h SIC invites Sammy Baloji : The Brussels-Congolese photographer and filmmaker Sammy Baloji combines some videos realised within the Picha! collective in Lubumbashi with some works from the SIC archives. Or: how narratives direct the imagination.
The idea for the Picha! videos was mooted in 2008 during a meeting between Libr’écrire, a collective of young writers from Lubumbashi, and a group of international video makers. In 2009, a workshop with the same video makers and writers followed. A total of six videos were made, of which we select three this evening.
Caméléon by Douglas Masamuna (10’). Like Sammy Baloji, Douglas Masamuna comes from Lubumbashi and has made comic strips before. He evokes the Congolese history with the texts of Ladislas Maliza, a loincloth and the movements of a dancer.
Sacredieu by Heeten Bhagat (10’). Heeten Bhagat works in Harare around his Indian-Zimbabwean identity and socio-political tensions in his country. With a text by Fiston Mwanza, he makes a video in which he translates destruction into an expressive force.
Suite et fin by Dorothee Kreutzfeldt (8’). South African Dorothee Kreutzfeldt draws on a text by Maëline Le Lay, and other texts of the Libr’écrire about the city. Filming in Lubumbashi, where permits to film are hard to come by and the camera is not always well received, she is constantly forced to adapt to the situation.
The three films of the Picha! collective enter into dialogue with three films of SIC participants. Each of the films have a different interpretation on 'working with narratives’:
Furor by Salomé Laloux-Bard (SIC 2012) (17’). Serge is an actor. Child of the Democratic Republic of Congo, he was a soldier in the war between 1997 and 2001. The evocation of his childhood is mixed with the fury of a theatrical game where reality becomes fiction.
pepsi, cola, water? by Tom Bogaert (SIC 2014) (9’). Jazz pioneer and philosopher Sun Ra had a deep fascination for anything extra-terrestrial and ancient Egypt. Computer animation, archival footage and music of Sun Ra are intertwined in a commemoration of his legendary visit to Egypt in 1971. The result is as outrageous as Sun Ra himself.
Yoko Osha by Lazara Rosell Albaer (SIC 2014) (41’) A dip in the heart of the Santeria or Regla de Osha, a syncretic religion from the Caribbean. Using her own story as a starting point, where the origin of her name is closely linked to the cult, Lazara Rosell Albaer searches for her identity which is at the very heart of her artistic practice.
#1 Partial Views by Julie Pfleiderer (SIC 2012) and Miriam Rohde on show at STUDIO VENEZIA :
01 / 09 – 24 / 09 : 5 buildings 4 teams of architects 2 spaces 1 film at Project Space 994/996, Venice
open : Tuesday to Saturday 14:30 - 19:30h.
For their first film, Rohde and Pfleiderer teamed up with with four young Belgian architecture practices. Partial Views features five different buildings which are similar in some regards; they are residential projects in various degrees of completion which are located somewhere in Flanders. However, the aim of the film is not to render a distinct impression of each building. Partial Views is mainly about looking at and from these houses. This looking is not neutral, linear steady or ideal. It is affected by the circumstances: interrupted, repetitive, forgetful, curious, concentrated or distracted and last but not least, mediated by a technical device, the camera.
BRAK, the first fiction of SIC-coach Laurent Van Lancker wins three prices at AVANCA Filmfestival in Portugal ( Special Mention of the Jury, Best Actor, Best Photography ) and is selected for Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (FNC) in Montréal !
From September 14th on BRAK will be screened in Cinéma Aventure.
Fortress Europe has collapsed. North-Europeans are forced to migrate. Lucas, a middle-class man gets stranded in a coastal village in search of a passage to a brighter elsewhere. Through the difficulties and dilemmas he faces, BRAK explores how far the end justifies the means and how the price we are prepared to pay, can turn a sacrifice into betrayal.
This debut fiction film by documentary filmmaker Laurent Van Lancker mixes contemporary realities with predictions of a possible nearby future. BRAK is based on a novel by Elvis Peeters and filmed on location in real settings (refugee camps and the abandoned city of Doel, Belgium).
The river has two banks releases "A Script for a Beautiful Landscape", a video work by Samah Hijawi (SIC 2016)
In “A Script for a Beautiful Landscape” Hijawi questions the gaze of nostalgia and beauty that is projected onto the landscape of the Jordan Valley. Caught between the desire to retain a memory of the past, and a reality that does not collapse into a paralysing notion of failure, the piece poetically plays with the idea of resistance found within the very act of repetition.
Caroline Daish (SIC 2012) and Stewart Daish are one of four artists selected as participants of WORD!
They will screen their documentary “Gormless Wonderland” in public space in the City of Adelaide.
IL QUARTO GIORNO DI SCUOLA by Martina Melilli (SIC 2015) was selected for the 23 Premio Libero Bizzarri, San Benedetto del Tronto, ItaliaCortoDoc Competition and won the Award Andrea Pazienza for the creative use of graphic design and images. The film is also selected for the Lago Film Fest XII, for the Faito Doc Festival and for the Milano Film Festival, Shorts Competition.
On Wednesday 21 / 09 IL QUARTO GIORNO DI SCUOLA will be screened with SoundImageCulture (SIC) : Collective Practices at Beursschouwburg !
IL QUARTO GIORNO DI SCUOLA (The Forth Day of School) - Martina Melilli’s father made the crossing from Tripoli to Italy as a child. His story aligns seamlessly with that of current migrants and their experiences. Historical and contemporary footage merge subtly while the place that her father landed is recorded in water colour.
Monday 05 / 09 & Tuesday 06 / 09 from 10 - 17 h at Beursschouwburg :
Collective Session with Daniele Dottorini and An van. Dienderen
SIC Participants 2016 will present and discuss their projects in development in the collective : Amélie Derlon Cordina, Amir Yatziv, Annelein Pompe, Bruno Vandenberghe, Greet Brauwers, Julia Clever, Samah Hijawi and of SIC 2015 : Sandra Heremans.
Wednesday 07 / 09 from 10 - 17 h at Beursschouwburg :
Masterclass with Daniele Dottorini : Archive, recycled images, found footage. Practices of re-editing in film
The workshop will focus on a contemporary trend of the editing practices, namely the re-editing of archival materials and will take place through a process aimed at highlighting, using selected examples throughout history of cinema, the possibilities of the “reuse the images”, from the editing as a compilation, as a collage or as appropriation (according to the definitions created by William A. Wees) up to several paradigms that are the basis of a Archive-based films (historical, aesthetic, anthropological and political), or the difference between Repetition and Umwertung (Revaluation), according the theories of Christa Bluminger.
Saturday 03 / 09 & Sunday 04 / 09 from 12 - 24 h at Palais de Tokyo :
Sanaz Azari (SIC 2013) and Eleni Kamma (SIC2014) take part in Indiscipline : Brussels, the multifaceted and interdisciplinary capital, comes to Palais de Tokyo.
Over the weekend of the 3rd and 4th September 2016, more than 30 artists, comprising visual artists, performers, choreographers and video makers based in Brussels, will be invited to the Palais de Tokyo by Indiscipline, selected by a curatorial team of WIELS (Brussels' contemporary art centre), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Performing Arts Festival) and the Wallonie-Bruxelles Théâtre/Danse agency. Coming from around 15 different countries, these artists will present works from diverse crossover disciplines, pushing a number of our symbolic, physical, cultural and linguistic boundaries.
VISITE : FILMPROGRAM IN AUGUST :
Friday 12 / 08 at 20:30h in Het Bos :
YOKO OSHA (SIC-project 2014) by Lazara Rosell Albear & BARE FACED by Sammy Baloji and Lazara Rosell Albear
Yoko Osha - Lazara Rosell Albear returns to the magical–realistic world of Santeria of Regla de Osha: the mysterious religion practiced in secret by more than 70% of the Cuban population in the director's home country Cuba. The film interweaves an intimate portrayal of this tradition with his rules and ritualistic initiations, with personal experiences and audio-visual recreations, performance and poetry. By merging different documentary styles the film becomes a subjective self-portrait of the director. Nine years of research have passed, allowing the project as well to portray the evolution of the documenting media's as to reflect on the connection between social unrest and noise in digital media. The result is a multi-layered film where the place of beliefs in the universal human quest for survival, is researched/questioned through levels of trance and heterotopias.
Bare Faced - The starting point for both artists was the search for their common personal history. They followed the central-African Kongo-culture from Congo to Cuba, guided by the inherited religious practices in which 'trance' plays an important role. By bringing the past in connection with the present, this project is an artistic reinterpretation of our memories in transgression and by so doing reveals the necessity of the transmission. The film interweaves in an experimental way autoetnographic research, brought to light in multilayers of knowledge, mixing documentary styles, performative re-stagings and poetry.
Saturday 20 / 08 at 20:30 in Het Bos :
THERE ARE NO IMAGES (SIC-project 2014) by Miguel Peres dos Santos & 'Cavalo Dinheiro' by Pedro Costa
There are no images - A proposal on a reflection upon a possible link between image and memory; between image and moment; and between image and death. A father, a son and a dead child engage in a dialogue constructed departing from the a moment. “does an image die?”; “and if an image dies”… “what will happen to memory?”
Housewarming (SIC project 2014) by Effi Weiss & Amir Borenstein
& Lili by SIC-founder An van. Dienderen selected for FID Marseille !
HOUSEWARMING - In a two-dimensional dystopian landscape of deserted, half-built houses in ex-communist Albania, an allegorical version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears unfolds. Like so many Albanians, the owners of the unfinished homes emigrated to the West after the end of the totalitarian regime (1991). Effi Weiss & Amir Borenstein invade the liminal space of the houses and occupy their emptiness, while the voice of an Albanian iso-polyphonic choir* sings poems based on interviews with locals responding to the artists’ invasion. This act of reverse immigration, from a place regarded as representative of Western affluence to a place considered destitute and deficient, critically inquires into the status of artists as privileged foreigners, short-term migrants who come to work with a local community. It’s a movement from the full to the empty, from excess to lack. *a traditional form from southern Albania
An van. Dienderen's LILI is about the phenomenon of the China Girl. In a TV studio a girl named Lili (played by Belgian actress Maaike Neuville) is asked to serve as a so-called China Girl. China Girls, used in cinema history since the 1920’s, are women with Caucasian skin who are filmed alongside a colour-chart in order to adjust the colours of the film. They have no dialogues to memorize or characters to impersonate. All they have to do, is have an impeccable white complexion. Their skin – white as porcelain – is used as a reference for the colour grading of camera and printing, ultimately excluding people of colour who do not conform to this implicit norm. Lili tells the story of one of these China Girls through archival material, found footage and documentary recordings, and questions the tradition of China Girls contextualized in a society, which, according to anthropologist Michael Taussig exemplifies chromophobic uneasiness with color.
On June 30th the Flemish Government announced the upcoming structural art funds for 2017-2021. The arts sector as a whole suffers a setback and about 41 Arts Organizations lose all of their grants. We regret that the consequences will be felt most of all by the smaller organisations; those who are particularly supporting the development of young art talents.
As many others, Sound Image Culture (SIC) loses its structural funding and will have to continue without a secured subsidy for the coming years.
We stay firmly convinced of the importance of our task and we are fully committed to constructing a new future for SIC.
IL QUARTO GIORNO DI SCUOLA (The Forth Day of School) a film by Martina Melilli (SIC 2015)
won the Premio Quotidiana at Quotidiana16, Padova and will be presented in the official selection of TIFF - Tirana International Film Festival June 1 - 8 !
IL QUARTO GIORNO DI SCUOLA (The Forth Day of School) - Martina Melilli’s father made the crossing from Tripoli to Italy as a child. His story aligns seamlessly with that of current migrants and their experiences. Historical and contemporary footage merge subtly while the place that her father landed is recorded in water colour.
IL QUARTO GIORNO DI SCUOLA was also screened at Rotterdam Film Festival.
Tuesday 21 / 06 at 20:15 and Thursday 23 / 06 at 22:00 at FESTIVAL CÔTÉ COURT, Ciné 104
Compétition ART VIDÉO #3 : RESTES by Julien Englebert in collaboration with Amélie Derlon Cordina (SIC 2016)
"Comment fait-on pour ... pour vivre avec ses morts ? Comment fait-on pour ... comment on fait ?". Portrait of a young mother and filmmaker, who tries to read the signs of her new film : "SAINTS’GAME".
Congratulations !
'pepsi, cola, water?' by Tom Bogaert (SIC 2014) won the first price at videoEx ex aequo with 'The Meadow' by Jela Hasler.
“pepsi, cola, water?” is a short experimental documentary about Sun Ra’s legendary visit to Egypt in 1971.
Lately with SIC :
Monday 30 / 05 at 19:20 h at Cinema Aventure :
Avant Premiere LINEFORK by Jeff Silva (SIC guest 2016) & Vic Rawlings, followed by a Q & A with Jeff Silva
LINEFORK, 2016 : Deep in Kentucky coal country, Lee & Opal Sexton continue to farm their land along Linefork Creek. Well into his eighties, Lee is a retired coal miner and revered banjo legend, a living link to the deep past of American music. Though hampered by hearing loss, Lee continues to perform at square dances and teach his distinctive style to a new generation eager to preserve a vanishing cultural tradition. Filmed over three years, Linefork offers an immersive view of Lee and Opal’s daily rituals and their inherent resiliency, while documenting the raw yet delicate music of a singular musician, linked to the past yet immediately present.
Tickets for 7 € online or directly at :
Cinema Aventure : Rue des Fripiers 15 Kleerkopersstraat : Galerie du Centre 57 Bloc II - Centrumgalerij Blok II : Bruxelles 1000 Brussel : Tel : +32 (0)2 219 92 02 : Fax : +32 (0)2 201 44 02 : info@cinema-aventure.be
Friday 03 / 06 at 20:00 h at Cinema Nova :
YOKO OSHA (SIC Project 2014) by Lazara Rosell Albear, followed by a live performance
Lazara Rosell Albear returns to the magical–realistic world of Santeria of Regla de Osha: the mysterious religion practiced in secret by more than 70% of the Cuban population in the director's home country Cuba. The film interweaves an intimate portrayal of this tradition with his rules and ritualistic initiations, with personal experiences and audio-visual recreations, performance and poetry. By merging different documentary styles the film becomes a subjective self-portrait of the director. Nine years of research have passed, allowing the project as well to portray the evolution of the documenting media's as to reflect on the connection between social unrest and noise in digital media. The result is a multi-layered film where the place of beliefs in the universal human quest for survival, is researched/questioned through levels of trance and heterotopias. "Yoko Osha" is the first part of the Cuban Trilogy project.
The film was most recently presented at AFRO-CUBAN ARTISTS: A RENAISSANCE at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Albear is an Artist in Residence for the year 2016 at Wiels Contemporary Art Center in Brussels.
Wednesday 01 / 06 at 19:45 h at Cinemathek Flagey :
Première of "LA DEUXIEME NUIT" by SIC-coach Eric Pauwels
The Second Night, the third instalment of documentary maker Eric Pauwels’ self-examination, depicts the special relationship between the filmmaker and his mother. The film is a tale of intertwined lives and of a near mythical strength of bond which allowed both to see their own story, shot in Pauwels’ usual hushed tone.
More screenings : 04.06. at 18:15 h, 09.06. at 17:30 h, 11.06. at 15:30 h, 15.06. at 22:00 h, 25.06. at 15:30 h, 16.07. at 20:00 h, 21.07. at 21:30 h and 02.08. at 21:30 h.
Eric Pauwel's novel "Quand j'étais petit les cosmonautes vivaient aussi longtemps que les chênes" is in the libraries now !
Tuesday 10 / 05 - Thursday 12 / 05 from 10 - 17 h at Pianofabriek :
Observation and Cityscapes_around the heart with Els Opsomer
Els Opsomer starts from her attitude as photographer and wants to offer different readings of the same issues.
In the workshop 'Observation and Cityscapes_around the heart' we focus on possibilities of participating and reading an urban landscape in relation to different moods. One introduction walk is organized. We reflect upon the personal projects and a range of films are shown. Some intervention of the participant is asked. At last she invites a friend as special guest : Geoffroy De Volder. It is all about connecting to your surrounding.
On Thursday 12 / 05 Geoffroy De Volder will interrogate the cruelty of gestures and the caressing gaze that is confronting them. Crossing intensities and passion with emotions and forms, he's going to try to hurt within a whisper. From far away to deep within, sound and images will devour tormented souls half asleep before dying. Yes, life can still be caught amazingly in acts, sensuality and intelligence, meaning and poetry. By us!
Geoffroy De Volder (1964) explores through art the remains of a life unexpected but true. Paintings, documents and more than 60 films are the waters in which he tries not to sink. His last installation (four synchronised videos) questions the arising voice of Ian Curtis. He also teaches sculpture, video and pluridisciplinary arts in Molenbeek and at La Cambre.
Tuesday 10 / 05 at 19:30h at ARGOS :
Screening : Building Stories # 001 [This Distant Piece Of Mine] by Els Opsomer
Building Stories # 001 [This Distant Piece Of Mine] is a 16mm film recorded in Senegal; reportedly the most accessible West African country, a tourist destination with a renowned hospitality. Far from the 'clichés' this film shows a poetic stroll through a topical Senegal. From the amazement about the grace with which the population strides over the ground, the absurdity of architecture that often is plumped down as a UFO in the landscape or orphaned infrastructure that plays a role in the whole of the scene, you find yourself in a unique African world. The tension of the film is in the interaction between what is familiar and strange, between what is constructed or in continuous deconstruction, between the stories you invent as a viewer and the stories that these scenes tell you, between what moves and what is still. Building Stories # 001 [This Distant Piece Of Mine] is an infinite portrait radiating a lonely quietness in an African frenetic world.
Friday 13 / 05 from 10 - 17 h at Pianofabriek :
Text and Context with Pieter Van Bogaert
This seminar reflects upon the relation between form and content through the analysis of critical texts and artistic contexts. Topics include spectatorship, representation, resistance, exotism, voyeurism and more.
On 13 / 05 we will discuss Sven Augustijnen's film 'Spectres' and TJ Demos: Return to the postcolony. Specters of Colonialism in Contemporary Art. Chapter 1: ‘Sven Augustijnen’s Spectropoetics’ . We will also talk about Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri : Commonwaelth. De Singularitate 1 : Of Love Possessed.
Monday 09 / 05 at 21 h at DOXA - Documentary Film Festival Vancouver :
pepsi, cola, water? by Tom Bogaert (SIC 2014)
Jazz pioneer and philosopher Sun Ra had a deep fascination with outer space and ancient Egypt. Computer animation, archival footage, and music from Sun Ra are interwoven to create a recreation/celebration of his legendary visit to Egypt in 1971. The result is a film as far out as Sun Ra himself.
Saturday 07 / 05 at 18:00h : Opening at Croxhapox, Ghent :
Bruno Vandenberghe (SIC 2016) presents crox 522.
The exhibition is running until 05 / 06 and open Thursday - Sunday 14:00 - 18:00h.
An van. Dienderen's film LETTER HOME will be presented at the Forum Image Festival Tokyo 29 / 04 - 06 / 05 / 2016 !
LETTER HOME is a video letter without words. There is talk, but not by the author. And the language sounds Asian, incomprehensible to most Western ears. After An van. Dienderen achieved several critical documentaries in which the encounter with another culture was always quite concrete, there is now this film with a quasi abstract image flow. However, this is not distant, autonomous data art, such as the purely computer-generated pixel patterns for example by Casey Reas. Like an envelope full of dried and crumbled petals her short film evokes a chaotic mosaic of colors and impressionistic pixels, which by patches of concrete sounds can still be interpreted.
Monday 25 / 04 - Wednesday 27 / 04 : 10 - 17 h in Pianofabriek :
Pre-Cinema / Databased Future Seminar with Didier Volckaert
The seminar of Didier Volckaert brings us back to the basics of Cinema and the use of AudioVisual Media today. It reflects on the fact that the difference between Anthropology and Visual Anthropology (or Documentary in the broadest sense) is the use of a machine, a technological construction, as means of direct communication (filmmaker--other) and delayed output (filmmaker--other--public). It opens up this awareness for any use of AudioVisual Media in Art, Science and even entertainment. The seminar is a manifest against the dominant position of language in our Culture and a confrontation with the complexity of images. But it’s also the joy of exploration, experimentation and a renewed sense of freedom in our standardized media society. By re-tracing the origins of our machines in Pre-Cinema and Dead Media we try to understand their parameters and how we can use them to give sense and meaning, to communicate our point of view and to create Art. All of this brought to you in both a sensorial and active way in direct relationship to your own project.
Thursday 28 / 04 : 10 - 17 h in Beursschouwburg :
Text and Context with Pieter Van Bogaert
This seminar reflects upon the relation between form and content through the analysis of critical texts and artistic contexts. Topics include spectatorship, representation, resistance, exotism, voyeurism and more.
On 12 / 04 we will discuss : Giorgio Agamben : Means Without End, Chapter 5: ‘Notes on gesture’
and Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat: Gathering Series : Nude Descending a Staircase & Orientation.
The Gathering Series focus on two different public gathering places where you can find an amalgam of people : The memorial for Walter Benjamin in Portbou and a public sculpture in Tel Aviv commemorating the founder of the city, called White Square - both made by Israeli sculptor Dani Karavan.
Saturday 30 / 04 at 13:30 - 16:00h at AFRO-CUBAN ARTISTS: A RENAISSANCE conference, Columbia, Missouri :
Experimental Autoethnography: YOKO OSHA and BARE-FACED, filmworks by Lázara Rosell Albear (SIC 2014)
Saturday 23 / 04 at 19:30 h at Villa Empain :
Contour Biennale 8 curator, Natasha Ginwala in conversation with filmmakers and artists Louis Henderson ( SIC guest 2016 ), Basir Mahmood and Judy Radul.
Reading the Lens – Evidence Today, Fiction Tomorrow
Contour Biennale 8 takes place between 11 March and 21 May 2017 across several venues in Mechelen. Over twenty artists from different parts of the world are invited to showcase newly commissioned and recent works. During the Artist Talk in the context of the Biennale, working methodologies that dwell between fact and fiction will be highlighted. The conversation will form an inquiry towards the lens as a subject that narrates ubiquitous truths and controls image-making
Thursday 21 / 04 at 19:30 h at the EMAF : European Media Art Festival Osnabrück :
LILI by SIC-founder An van. Dienderen
With the film LILI An van. Dienderen questions the supposedly neutral character of this highly problematic and ideologically charged practice. If the film tonality is adjusted to the white complexion, other skin colors look unnaturally dark. Black actors appearing next to white actors need to wear insanely thick layers of make-up, otherwise they will appear pitch black with only white patches of teeth and eyeballs. For this very reason, Jean-Luc Godard famously refused to use Kodak film stock when working in Mozambique. Can technology itself be racist? An van. Dienderen contends that the medium itself should be examined from its technical aspect, because it matters what we consider a norm, be it in the skin color, the gender relations involved in the film process or an average beauty standard.
Tuesday 19 / 04 at 16:30 and Wednesday 20 / 04 at 11:45 at Visions du Réel, Festival International de cinéma Nyon :
LINEFORK by Jeff Silva ( SIC-guest 2016 ) and Vic Rawlings
LINEFORK is a feature-length documentary about Lee and Opal Sexton. Lee, a legendary Kentucky banjo player, and his wife Opal are subsistence farmers living on Lee’s coal miner pension and the money he earns performing and teaching his distinctive 2-finger banjo style.
Tuesday 19 / 04 at 20:30 h at Standards, Milano :
Davide Tidoni (SIC 2014) : THE SOUND OF NORMALIZATION
THE SOUND OF NORMALIZATION focuses on the evolution of the chanting strategies shared by the (football supporters) ultras group BRESCIA 1911. Chanting has been considered in particular relation to processes of modern football, crowd regulation and police repression within football stadia. The project includes a selection of 30 audio recordings and a booklet. The recordings were taken over a research period of more than 13 years (2002>2015). The field work has been characterized by an high degree of active involvement and participation not only in relation to the chanting but also to the social activities organized by the supporters outside the football stadium.
THE SOUND OF NORMALIZATION has been presented as a talk/performance in a variety of contexts including: Raum/Xing, Bologna, Italy (2009); School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Exeter, UK (2009); Villa Kabilla, Den Haag, The Netherlands (2013); ARGOS centre for art and media, Brussels, Belgium (2015).
Monday 28 / 03 at 20:30h
HEROS SANS VISAGE by Mary Jiménez at Cinemathek Brussels.
Brussels, Béguinage church: migrants organise a hunger strike to obtain their papers. One man dies.
Tunisia, Choucha camp on the Libyan border, refugees tell of the horrors experienced as they crossed the Sahara, heading north.
Liège, in a refugee centre, a man remembers how he crossed the Mediterranean on an inner tube.
Three instances in a war for survival.
Thursday 24 / 03 at 20:00 h
Research Café : The Secret Sense of Objects / Michel Yang / Lecture-performance and video
As dancer and performance artist, my practice is to revise the cartography of the body by means of physical states, and by embodying the immediate surrounding and circumstances. Most recently objects have come into play. Reclaimed from city streets and flea markets, objects are reborn into a second life on the body and in turn altering the sense of the body itself. Regarding their use in my performances, I am frequently asked what do the objects mean?
For Research Café, I propose a lecture performance to share recent works that respond to this question. Partly reflection and partly ritual, I propose to share written and spoken stories, video vignettes, and a live revision of my body’s cartography. Objects are their common link. They are arranged, rearranged, played with, and reassigned function attempting to exhaust the question what do the objects mean?
Cinéma Du Réel presents LA DEUXIÈME NUIT by SIC-coach Eric Pauwels
Samedi 19 Mars 15H20 Cinéma 1,
Dimanche 20 Mars 19H20 Luminor Hôtel de Ville,
Mardi 22 Mars 14H00 Centre Wallonie Bruxelles
LA DEUXIÈME NUIT (The Second Night) - On the death of his mother, a filmmaker makes a film to see how much her disappearance has changed his vision of the world. It is an opportunity for him to look back over his relationship with her: a relationship that made him a free individual, as a man and as a filmmaker. The second night is the final part of a trilogy that began with Letter from a filmmaker to his daughter, which was followed by Dreaming films. The making of this “Cabin Trilogy” is the fruit of fifteen years of work and reflection.
Julia Clever (SIC 2016) : DEVOIR DE MÉMOIRE at the Royal Military Museum Brussels
Opening 5 / 03 from 19h with the "War Party" during "Museum Night Fever" Brussels. On show till 31 / 03.
An investigation of her grandfather's formative years as a German soldier during WWII, brought her to a 5year field-research on "Living History" re-enactments of this war period.
The resulting video-installation "Devoir de memoire" explores a range of personal trajectories that reconstruct war memories through embodiment and reactement, revealing different perspectives on the underlying identity politics of both the participants who perform these reneactments, and the filmmaker, and confronts the audience with questions on our relationship with violent historical events.
18 / 03 at 13:30 & 18:30 h
Screening SUBORDINATION a film by Ariane Looze (SIC 2015) at Traverse Video, Toulouse .
Solo-Show : Tine Guns (SIC 2010) : To Each His Own Mask in Netwerk Aalst until 06 / 03
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In the highly focused work of Tine Guns (°1983), which extends from film work on publications to photographic installations, the volatility of human perception plays a central role. The intangible processes of forming images and meanings do not crystallise in works that are constantly generating new connections.
In Netwerk Tine Guns will exhibit a video installation in anticipation of her upcoming film, To Each His Own Mask, which will see its premiere there later this year. The work views the current protest culture through the perspective of carnival rituals.
Tine Guns shows a layered installation, in which images mask each other and give new identities to the familiar.
Tuesday 01 / 03 at 20:00 h
Screening of SURYA by Laurent Van Lancker (SIC-coach)
at Pianofabriek in Brussels
SURYA - Once upon a journey, ten contemporary storytellers of different cultures create an imaginary epic story. They each draw on their own style and own language to prolong the life of a nameless hero. The aromas of cultures, the taste of words and the perfume of travelling carry us from one storyteller to the next. Like an epic story, this film oscillates between imagination and reality, the inner world and the outside world, documentary and fiction. An ode to orality. This impressionistic film is the outcome of an overland odyssey by public transport from dusk to dawn, through Europe and Asia (Belgium, Slovakia, Turkey, Syria, Kurdistan, Iran, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Tibet, China, Vietnam). An audio-visual performance where imagination and creativity travel across borders.
NOW AT Cinema Galeries :
Prix SACD Audiovisuel 2015 : ‘LE CHANT DES HOMMES’ by SIC-coach Mary Jimenez and Bénédicte Liénard
LE CHANT DES HOMMES (Rising Voices) - Their names are Moktar, Najat, Joseph, Gernaz, Duraid, Hayder, Kader, Esma… They fled Syria, Iraq, Iran, Congo, Morocco and Niger… Together, they occupy a church. They will risk their lives for asylum. Days of countdown begin; a test of strength in itself. Inside, Kader has assumed the role of leader, but, mysteriously, sometimes he is missing. Day by day, devotedly, Esma cares for this community. Exhaustion increases; tensions rise. But bonds are forged and strengthened. Between betrayal and brotherhood, the group will have to put itself to the test, and face up to the challenge.
Congratulations :
A Remarkable Odyssey of Imaginary Beings by Sabine Groenewegen (SIC 2015) receives support from the Dutch Cultural Media Fund. The project was developed in the context of SoundImageCulture in 2015 and is co-produced by Argos Centre for Art and Media.
The Dutch Cultural Media Fund created the LEF funding to support work which breaks with conventions and explores the boundaries of the documentary form. Projects are selected on the quality of experiment, artistic research and level of innovation.
Thursday 25 / 02 at 20:30 h
Screening of HOUSEWARMING by Effi Weiss & Amir Borenstein (SIC-Project 2014)
at Beursschouwburg in Brussels
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HOUSEWARMING - In a two-dimensional dystopian landscape of deserted, half-built houses in ex-communist Albania, an allegorical version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears unfolds. Like so many Albanians, the owners of the unfinished homes emigrated to the West after the end of the totalitarian regime (1991). Effi Weiss & Amir Borenstein invade the liminal space of the houses and occupy their emptiness, while the voice of an Albanian iso-polyphonic choir* sings poems based on interviews with locals responding to the artists’ invasion. This act of reverse immigration, from a place regarded as representative of Western affluence to a place considered destitute and deficient, critically inquires into the status of artists as privileged foreigners, short-term migrants who come to work with a local community. It’s a movement from the full to the empty, from excess to lack. *a traditional form from southern Albania
Nominated for the Best Documentary at the Magritte du Cinéma 2016 : BUREAU DE CHOMAGE (Employment Office) a film by Charlotte Grégoire (SIC-participant 2009) and Anne Schiltz
BUREAU DE CHOMAGE (Employment Office) - In an office, a row of desks, with people facing each other. This is where unemployed people come to meet with their advisors. At stake: their benefit payments. Here everyone has to abide by the same rigid procedure and bureaucracy but each has their own life, their own story. This film shows what it means today to have a job, when work is more and more precarious, employed and unemployed alike less and less secure, and the welfare state is shrinking away and under attack.
Congratulations to Lazara Rosell Albear (SIC participant 2014) ! She will be a WIELS resident in 2016.
