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Courtisane Festival 2021 - 20th Edition

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 06/10/2021 - 05:29

The 2021 edition of Courtisane Festival (October 20-24 Ghent. Belgium) will feature as its artists in focus Sandra Lahire, a central member of the feminist and experimental filmmaking community in London in the 1980s and 1990s; and Swedish documentarians C.W. Winter & Anders Edström.
Dates:
Wednesday, October 20, 2021 (All day) to Sunday, October 24, 2021 (All day)
Bozar Cinema: Edward Owens

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 14/10/2019 - 07:06

In the mid 1960s, Edward Owens (1949-2009) was an African-American teenager attending the Art Institute of Chicago when Gregory Markopoulos arrived to found the school’s film program. Owens, who was then studying painting and sculpture, had already been making 8mm movies for a few years; impressed by the maturity of his work, Markopoulos encouraged him to move to New York. Over the next four years, Owens created a cluster of films that display an increasing mastery of form, inspired by Markopoulos’s style but transformed into something purely his own.
Dates:
Thursday, November 7, 2019 - 19:00 to Friday, November 8, 2019 - 18:55
Venue:
Bozar Cinema (Centre For Fine Arts) - Bruxelles, Belgium
Courtisane Festival 2018

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 26/03/2018 - 10:02

The 2018 edition of Courtisane Festival (March 28th-April 1st Ghent. Belgium) will fature two prominent figures such as documentary filmmakers Wang Bing and Annik Leroy as its artists in focus. As in previous editions, Leroy's programme will present her work in play with work by other filmmakers (Barbara Loden & Artavazd Pelechian).
Dates:
Wednesday, March 28, 2018 (All day) to Sunday, April 1, 2018 (All day)
Courtisane Festival 2017

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 07/03/2017 - 07:29

The 2017 edition of Courtisane Festival (March 29-April 2, Ghent, Belgium) will feature as 'Artists in focus' two very different as essential figures of German filmmaking: those of documentarian Peter Nestler and experimental filmmaker Ute Aurand.
Dates:
Wednesday, March 29, 2017 (All day) to Sunday, April 2, 2017 (All day)
X-Ray: Space

By Anonymous on Wed, 30/11/2016 - 03:09

In this third installment of the X-Ray series hosted by the Department of Media Art of Ghent's Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), guest curator Sebastian Buerkner (UK) together with Courtisane personally presents a program featured around spatiality.

Buerkner's computer animated work guides us through an ambiguous universe of abstract interiors, stylized forms and fluid color fields. He situates his films Triband and The Chimera of M within an experimental context that misleads viewers in its spatiality, with work by Ken Jacobs (Capitalism: Slavery), Blake Williams (Red Capriccio), Takashi Ito (Spacy) and Alexandre Larose (Brouillard Passage #14).

Dates:
Thursday, December 1, 2016 - 20:30 to Friday, December 2, 2016 - 21:55
Venue:
KASKcinema - Ghent, Belgium
Courtisane Festival 2016

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 07/03/2016 - 17:01

The fifteenth edition of Courtisane Festival (March 23-27, Ghent, Belgium) focuses on the figures of Palestinian filmmaker Michel Khleifi and the Scottish artist,
Dates:
Wednesday, March 23, 2016 (All day) to Sunday, March 27, 2016 (All day)
OFFoff Cinema: Courtisane Festival preview

By Anonymous on Tue, 09/02/2016 - 02:59

This screening fits into our running programme and the theme of essayism, and it is an announcement to the programme In Between Lines of the forthcoming Courtisane Festival in which Offoff and Courtisane present The Song of the Shirt, a unique and influential film by Sue Clayton and Jonathan Curling (1979). It is a study of the position of working women in the 1840's, the effects of protectionist 'philanthropy' and the resistance to it.
Dates:
Monday, February 15, 2016 - 20:00 to Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - 19:55
Venue:
OFFoff Cinema - Ghent, Belgium
Courtisane Festival 2015

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 30/03/2015 - 10:32

Just two days more until the beginning of the 2015 Courtisane Festival (April 1-5, Ghent, Belgium). Now in its fourteenth year, the festival keeps a solid programme as ever with their 'Artists in focus' section, dedicated to Thom Andersen and Pedro Costa. Each filmmaker will be the protagonist of a series of different events including screenings of their work, masterclasses and carte blanches.

The festival will also present a selection of over 50 films from the L.A. Rebellion movement, including works by Charles Burnett, Haile Gerima, Larry Clark and Billy Woodberry. The Selection strand will feature films and videos by Basma Alsharif, Mary Helena Clark, Beatrice Gibson, Ernie Gehr, Morgan Fisher, Ute Aurand and Luke Fowler, among many others.

Dates:
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 (All day)
Thursday, April 2, 2015 (All day)
Friday, April 3, 2015 (All day)
Saturday, April 4, 2015 (All day)
Sunday, April 5, 2015 (All day)
Courtisane Festival 2014

By Marcos Ortega on Sun, 30/03/2014 - 11:35

In its yearly festival, Courtisane 2014 (April 2-6, Ghent, Belgium) presents a kaleidoscopic mosaic of styles, media, gestures, languages and emotions; a patchwork of recent and historical works that share an insatiable hunger for experimentation, a personal signature, and a sense of resistance. The main core of this year's programme will include recents and classic works from artists such as Leslie Thornton, Peter Emmanuel Goldman, Laure Prouvost, Ben Rivers & Ben Russell, Laida Lertxundi, Gary Beydler, Bruce Baillie, Nathaniel Dorsky, Alexandra Cuesta, Morgan Fisher, Camille Henrot, Gregory Markopoulos, Robert Beavers, Olivier Dekegel, Sarah Vanagt, Black Audio Film Collective and Larry Gottheim among many others.

This edition's "Artist in Focus" is Ken Jacobs, who will be the protagonist of several dedicated screenings and a performance with composer and visual artist Aki Onda. The programme "Across the Margins, Beyond the Pale: Re-imagining the post-colonial" will include films by Kidlat Tahimik, Djibril Diop Mambéty, Med Hondo, Carlos Mayolo & Luis Ospina, Nelson Pereira dos Santos and Glauber Rocha.

The festival will also feature several musical and performatic events with Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda, Julius Eastman (works for 4 pianos), Wanda Group, Christina Vantzou, Angela Melitopoulos & Bettina Knaup and Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri.

Dates:
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 (All day) to Sunday, April 6, 2014 (All day)
Alexandra Cuesta: Films & Influences

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 11/02/2014 - 17:16

At the invitation of art cinema OFFoff, Courtisane is very pleased to present a program composed of films made and chosen by artist and filmmaker Alexandra Cuesta (EC/US). Inspired as much by Walker Evans‘s reticent street photography as by Bruce Baillie’s sensuous film poems, her work manages to strike a delicate balance between the mundane and the poetic, the material and the intelligible. Public places and urban landscapes are observed in their splendor and singularity through the abstract and vernacular figures of everyday life, exploring the constructions of space and structures of time that can be found in the order and disorder of people’s daily movements and environments. These filmic portraits in motion, elegantly composed of textures of light and fragments of bodies, are reminiscent of an approach that Flaubert once referred to as an “absolute way of seeing things”, manifesting the sensible intensities of the most ordinary things, on the point of disentangling the connections that make them into functional objects. It is precisely in this point of tension that the sensibility of Alexandra Cuesta’s work is situated, perpetually oscillating between a fleeting play of correspondences and a surface of percepts and affects that is there for us to engage with.

Dates:
Monday, February 17, 2014 - 20:30
Venue:
OFFoff Cinema - Ghent, Belgium

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