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MEDIA DIGITAL ART AND CULTURE IN FLANDERS BELGIUM - BAM

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S A R A H V A N A G T<br />

º 1 9 76 , B R U G G E<br />

A leperlaan 60<br />

1000 Brussels<br />

T +32 (02) 217 66 06<br />

M +32 (0)486 222 696<br />

E sarah@vanagt.com<br />

W balthasar.be<br />

Sarah Vanagt studied history and film. She<br />

graduated with a film After years of Walking (2003)<br />

a documentary film that deals with the rewriting of<br />

Rwandan history after the genocide of 1994. Recent<br />

work reflects Vanagt’s interest in the way children<br />

deal with history. The documentary film Begin Began<br />

Begun and the video installation Les Mouchoirs de<br />

Kabila (both 2005) show the play-world of children<br />

growing up in the border zone between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of<br />

the Congo and who have to deal with death, war and elections. In 2007, Vanagt<br />

presented Power Cut at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. This installation<br />

brings together short videos and photographs made by three boys who were<br />

already involved in Les Mouchoirs de Kabila and voice-recordings made by two<br />

young soldiers who took part in the recent wars in Congo and Rwanda. Hoofd<br />

(2007), combines super 8 footage of the ancient city of Pompeii with the images of<br />

new-born babies. The 2007 video installation Ash Tree is based on the childhood of<br />

Mary Shelly. It shows the image of a 5-year old girl wandering around at a London<br />

graveyard while spelling out the letters on the graves. Her latest work Solar Cemetry<br />

(2009) is a photo installation with light boxes which are powered by solar energy.<br />

Boulevard d’Ypres / Ieperlaan (2010) is an experimental documentary in which<br />

she turns an empty store house into a film studio, and invited her neighbours –<br />

a mix of refugees, shopkeepers, newcomers – to come and tell a fairy tale. For The<br />

Corridor (2010), Vanagt followed a donkey on it’s regular visits to elderly people in<br />

English nursing homes. Currently Vanagt is working on a film in the International<br />

Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague.<br />

7 3<br />

Solar Cemetery (2009)<br />

Camera Obscura © Sarah Vanagt

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