Courtisane Festival 2012 - Call for entries
21-25 March 2012, Ghent, Belgium
Deadline December 31, 2011
As a festival and platform to showcase artists' moving image, Courtisane makes a resolute choice for adventure and reflection. Courtisane’s programmation constitutes a kaleidoscopic mosaic of styles, media, gestures and emotions that share an insatiable hunger for experimentation, a personal signature, and a sense of resistance. Courtisane has been organizing a yearly festival since 2002.
Among the artists whose films and videos have been featured in past festivals: Duncan Campbell, David Gatten, Deborah Stratman, Ben Rivers, Luke Fowler, Anna Abrahams, Luther Price, Manon de Boer, Phil Solomon, Sophie Nys, Thomas Köner, Rachel Reupke, Christopher Harris, Neil Beloufa, Manuel Saiz, Semiconductor, Isabelle Tollenaere, Michael Robinson, Sofie Benoot, Peter Tscherkassky, Pere Portabella, Ken Jacobs, Lewis Klahr, Martha Colburn, Bruce McClure, Makino Takashi, John Smith, Vincent Meessen, Kathrin Resetarits, Miranda Pennell, Sarah Vanagt, Ben Russell, Guido Van Der Werve, Herman Asselberghs, Imogen Stidworthy, Pieter Geenen, James Benning, The Otolith Group, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Mary Helena Clark...
Courtisane intends to stimulate the public exhibition of films and videos that are neither distributed nor exhibited within Belgium's traditional circuits.