Dear Frameworkers, Below you'll find a general overview of this year's Courtisane Festival. The full programme will be online on Monday on our website (www.courtisane.be).
For those interested : we offer free accreditations to professionals in the audiovisual arts sector (programmers, distributors, curators, teachers, journalists....). You can find the application form here : http://courtisane.be/accreditaties-0 (deadline March 15th) Looking forward to seeing you in Ghent ! Maria -- COURTISANE FESTIVAL 21-25 March 2012 Ghent, Belgium www.courtisane.be Courtisane presents its annual selection of cutting-edge cinema, bringing together recent film and video by artists and filmmakers who open up new directions in the expanded field of contemporary moving image practice. This year’s competition includes works by Ute Aurand, Bonnie Begusch, Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat, Mati Diop, Fabian Euresti, Janie Geiser, Beatrice Gibson, Kwon Hayoun, Robert-Jan Lacombe, Laida Lertxundi, Rose Lowder, Gary Mairs, Valérie Massadian, Pavel Medvedev, Nicolás Pereda, Charlotte Pryce, Alina Rudnitskaya, Jani Ruscica and Isabelle Tollenaere. -- PROFILES Gabriel Abrantes, George Kuchar, Naomi Uman, Sung-A Yoon Four filmmaker profiles, from young promises Gabriel Abrantes and Sung-A Yoon who deal playfully with the limits and conventions of traditional fiction and documentary film, to Naomi Uman’s return to the land of her great-grandparents (Kalendar and Videodiary 2-12006 to Present) and the now classic Weather Diaries series by the unique George Kuchar, who sadly left us in 2011. -- REVERBERANCES Robert Gardner - Robert Fenz, Thomas Harlan - José Filipe Costa, Masao Adachi - Philippe Grandrieux & Eric Baudelaire A series of revisitations and reverberations: dialogues between then and now, between different generations and traditions, exploring ways of seeing and thinking cinema, politics, documentary and ethnography. -- ARTISTS IN FOCUS : Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder Live performance ‘ABERRATION OF LIGHT: DARK CHAMBER DISCLOSURE’ (with Olivia Block) WED 21.03, 20:30 at VOORUIT Film installation ‘OPEN SCREENING’ THU 22.03 - SUN 25.03, 14:00-20:00 at VOORUIT Carte Blanche Screening : Re-Projection: “The Multiple Screen” films of Paul Sharits FRI 23.03, 20:00 at CINEMA SPHINX Masterclass FRI 23.03 at KASK KUNSTTOREN -- ARTISTS IN FOCUS : Ben Rivers & Ben Russell BEN AND BEN: BEARD BEAT TRIANGLE WORSHIP Event Night (with Robert A.A. Lowe, Jake Williams, Stellar OM Source) THU 22.03, 20:30 at KASK KUNSTTOREN INSTALLATION "and someday, somehow, before the end" FRI 23.03 - SUN 25.03, 14:00-20:00 at KASK KUNSTTOREN BEN ON BEN: SACK BARROW, or DON'T LET'S FORGET ABOUT THE FACTORY (surprise screening) SUN 25.03, 15:30 at SPHINX BEN ON BEN: RIVER RITES, or IF YOU'RE GOING TO DO IT THIS MIGHT BE THE BEST WAY (surprise screening) SUN 25.03, 17:30 at SPHINX TWO YEARS AT SEA (BEN RIVERS) FRI 23.03, 22:45 at SPHINX Masterclass THU 22.03 at KASK KUNSTTOREN -- ARTIST IN FOCUS : Philippe Grandrieux Film Screenings SAT 24.03 – SUN 25.03 in CINEMA SPHINX -- Guest programme : MEDIA CITY (curated by Jeremy Rigsby and Oona Mosna) THIS IS THEN NOW AND HERE Canadian Films from the Collection of the CFMDC (1967–1979). With works by : Michael Snow, David Rimmer, Vincent Grenier, Barbara Sternberg, Ellie Epp SAT 24.03, 11:00 at KASKCinema _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
