Brussels Metropolitan Area
Jan De Coster graduated as a director at the filmschool Rits. He wrote and (co-)directed the short films "Los Hervideros" and "The Thread". As an editor he works mainly on documentary films, experimental films and video-installations, but also on short and longer fiction films. He edited among other films the documentary "Enjoy Poverty" by Renzo Martens, the fiction film "Bodkin Ras" by Kaweh Modiri, the video-installation "Angel of Death" by Jan Fabre. Since a few years he supervises the projects of KASK film students.
Alejandro, victim of an illegal adoption, embarks on an investigation in Europe and Chile, which becomes a personal quest leading him to his roots, the Mapuche people.
SoundImageCulture - SIC is a workspace where artists, filmmakers, anthropologists can find support to realise their personal projects. SIC offers a 12-month program in Brussels that involves artistic coaching through collective seminars, individual mentoring, group critiques, and inter-artist dialogue. SIC believes in the richness that arises from breaking the boundaries between genres: art/cinema, fiction/documentary, poetry/essay. SIC promotes the idea of thinking by doing, rather than writing in order to do. Discussions start on audio-visual materials and focus on formal and ethical questions during the creative process, with the purpose to develop an original and personal point of view.
I watch as the performer swings from the roof. I am worried they might fall. Juggling is just as bad. It is common to drop a catch, but the true thrill is saved for when a group of performers pulls off a set without a single lost catch. I sit on the edge of my seat, wishing for that thrill every time. The Circus is always and only ever about liveness. The liveness of one body in front of another. I am a child side of stage watching, and the Circus is at the heart of my relationship to filming.
A motorcycle accident. Severe head trauma. My dad didn’t die; it’s a miracle. But he’s not the same, he’s completely out of it, it’s a disaster. To compensate for the poor medical follow-up, I take care of this new, fragile father, I help him regain his autonomy. Filming helps me not to get lost with him. He has big plans, he wants to ride again, straight to his boat, and « get the hell out of this mess ». But he doesn’t know what day it is, and the sea is 800 kilometers away. Let’s see tomorrow. Tomorrow, maybe, everything will be as before.
Tutor for the students of 3BA
The Ebro reservoir, in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, lies in a border region, a geographical line that separates the Atlantic from the Mediterranean climate. The meeting of these two worlds creates a constant tension, resulting in an unstable place that is in a state of constant transformation. It is said in the area that when the dam was built, as the water filled the valley and villages and cemeteries disappeared beneath the surface, bones began to float and mist covered the region. This latest film by Edurne Rubio is a portrait of an ecosystem, an attempt to hear the voices of its inhabitants: water, willows, fish and spirits.
At the KVS theatre, young people — together with specially cast adults — create their own interpretation of Plato’s Symposium. Together, they explore what love means today and what role classical texts and cultural institutions can still play in our modern society.