MEDIA DIGITAL ART AND CULTURE IN FLANDERS BELGIUM - BAM

C O U R T I S A N E
A Courtisane Festival
p.a. KASK
Campus Bijloke
J. Kluyskensstraat 2
9000 Ghent
T +32 9 267 01 22
E info@courtisane.be
W courtisane.be
In the aftermath of its one hundredth birthday, the
traditional film model seems to be expanding more
and more as it splits up into countless media and
modalities, comprising a wide range of motives and
technologies. As a result, cinema has been drifting
away from the closed mechanisms and formats of
the film and television industry, resulting in a far
more diverse practice and in the highest number of
audiovisual productions ever. What does ‘cinema’
mean today? Cinema has become an open and dynamic field, at the same time
looking back at traditions in film and visual arts, and looking forward with
new approaches to image and sound and to the acts of registering and telling,
listening and seeing. Within this context, Courtisane is a curatorial collective
and a platform showcasing and supporting the work of film, video and media
artists that go in search of their own idiom instead of following the call for
spectacle. Courtisane organises a yearly festival and a number of other events
in Belgium and abroad. Together these constitute a kaleidoscopic mosaic of
styles, media, gestures, languages and emotions, a patchwork of both recent
and historical works that share an insatiable hunger for adventure, a personal
signature, and a sense of resistance.
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Surface Tension - Light Music (2010)
Lis Rhodes (c) Courtisane Festival