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On March 18 th 1982 Fase, four movements to the music of Steve Reich premièred in the
Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels. This was to mark the beginning of the extremely
successful international career of the dance company Rosas. To mark Rosas’ twentieth
anniversary, Thierry De Mey made a film version of this debut by Anne Teresa De
Keersmaeker. The film version of this minimalistic and repetitive choreography bears
witness to an unexpectedly lasting dynamic in a clear spatial positioning and with
poetic photography.
Les Guerriers de la Beauté is the result of a meeting between the French filmmaker
Pierre Coulibeuf and the Flemish choreographer Jan Fabre. Coulibeuf lets the viewer
lose his way in Fabre’s strange universe. This is a film as a labyrinth, in which the
onlooker is guided one moment and misled the next.
During the spring of 2002 four people with an intellectual handicap and four professional
artists set to work together during a one-week workshop, under the aegis of
the project Kanttekening (Cross over the mind). Gerard Preszow made the documentary
Duo’s in residentie on this. The film goes in search of the essence of the artistic confrontation
in the project, and results in a document that shows the misunderstandings,
clichés, distress and enjoyment of the four duos within the non-demarcated
margins of art.
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CONCISE
Cinematic Bruges
Bruges in images. Photogenic Bruges. Bruges as a backdrop, as a document, as a
reverie.
In co-operation with the Royal Film Archive, a special and cheerfully diverse programme
of carefully restored fragments of documentaries and fiction films, promos
and advertising from yesteryear was brought together. All were shown on a Euroline
ship on the canal between Bruges and Zeebrugge. Old Films on the Water was compiled
by two newly graduated students of the RITS: Filip De Zeure (direction) and
Samuel Vanwalleghem (composition).
© HUGO MAERTENS
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