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Dossiers
Additional context for film programs, filmmakers, and our own activities.
Additional context for film programs, filmmakers, and our own activities.
Through these dossiers, we want to provide a space on our website to share additional context about our film programs, featured filmmakers, and internal initiatives. The thematic and educational focus may range from providing historical background or film-theoretical insights on genres and techniques, to exploring issues related to gender, racism, and the broader impact of film on representation.
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Expo
Expo Ledoux
28.09 2021
One hundred years ago, Jacques Ledoux was born. This autumn, we pay tribute to the man who shaped CINEMATEK to become both an institution that cannot be ignored at the international level, as well as a place of exchange where, every day, the adventure of the 7th art is carefully exhibited in the widest possible spectrum.
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Restauration
The man who had his hair cut short is one of the first Belgian films with an international career. The screenplay of this debut film by André Delvaux, one of the classics of Flemish magic-realist cinema, is based on the novel of the same name by Johan Daisne. The main character, lawyer Govert Miereveld, teaches at a girls’ school in a provincial town. He harbours a secret platonic love for his pupil Fran, which plunges him into a downward spiral of mental disorientation.
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CINEMATEK
In cooperation with SCC, this summer we offer an educational and scholarly look at the charm and value of ’bad movies’. Jeremi Szaniawski wrote a short text in which he frames this educational film cycle within the context of our current health crisis. On 28.06 Michael Cramer will elaborate (also in French) on the ’demonic’ Italian cinema of Lamberto Bava (but also Mario Bava, Lucio Fulci, Dario Argento, Claudio Fragasso...).
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CINEMATEK, Silent movies
Before the emergence of the sound film, from 1895 to the 1930s, "silent" films shaped the visual grammar of cinema for the first time. CINEMATEK takes a specific and consistent approach to screening ’silent’ films: our talented pianists improvise on the spot to accompany the film images.
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Âge d’Or
L’Âge d’Or was created by Jacques Ledoux, founder of the Film Museum. L’Âge d’Or is the name of the surrealist feature film by Luis Buñuel from 1930. For Ledoux, this was the pre-eminent example of a film in which innovative language makes the subversiveness of the content even more pungent.
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Âge d’Or, Silent movies
Fernand Schirren (1920-2001) is an eccentric musician and composer who chose anything but a traditional historical-oriented approach, he left his avant-garde stamp on the film, dance and music world at home and abroad.
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CINEMATEK
Kevin Jerome Anderson
23.05 2021
CINEMATEK en Courtisane brengen een hommage aan de kunstenaar en cineast Kevin Jerome Everson. Deze onvermoeibare meesterportrettist filmt de Afro-Amerikaanse werkende klasse tijdens het dagelijks leven bij werk en ontspanning, wars van alle narratieve conventies en clichés met betrekking tot de representatie van Afro-Amerikanen op het scherm.
