As always, the Courtisane festival organises a competition for recent short films and videos. A professional jury will evaluate all Belgian and international productions made after 2006. On Sunday April 26, at 21:30, the jury will announce what special productions win an award (1 Belgian / 1 international). Directly after, the winning films will be shown again. Welcome!

AWARD CEREMONY
SUN 26 APRIL, 21:30 - SPHINX, FREE

JURY

Robrecht Vanderbeeken (BE)
Dr. Robrecht Vanderbeeken wrote a thesis on a subject in Social Sciences and Philosophy of Science (Ghent University). He is also a former researcher of the Jan van Eyck Academy (Maastricht). He has published What are you doing? Essays on Video Art. Besides, his publications concern a variety of topics (metaphysics, philosophy of technology and aesthetics). Since 2007 he teaches at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University College Ghent (KASK) and at the Art Department (Ghent University). His current research concerns video art, theatre, media art and the philosophical implications of technological innovations in art and culture.

Luke Fowler (UK)
Fowler’s work is a testament to film’s ability to transcend its own limits as both art form and document. He is a key catalyst and collaborator within Glasgow’s vital scene of artists, musicians and film makers and has produced a body of important films profiling vanguard thinkers and counterculture figures such as Cornelius Cardew and RD Laing. Using archival footage, photographs, interviews and music he constructs impressionistic portraits of his subjects. Fowler’s approach offers sparkling, open and compelling moments to rethink their relationship to history and to the radical possibilities offered by film as a non-industrial, artistic practice.

Bryony McIntyre (UK)
Bryony McIntyre is co-director of Arika that curates, produces and delivers festivals and events that explore experimental arts. Install (Glasgow) is a once a year collection of events that looks at different ideas about sound and music. Kill Your Timid Notion (Dundee) is all about exploring the many different ways we navigate the borders, disparities and similarities between what we hear and what we see. Previously Bryony distributed and promoted the work of Scottish filmmakers and worked at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. She likes films that tickle her fancy.

PARTNERS
Courtisane awards the main prize to… its loyal partners for the competition! Thanks to Avid and the renewed software package Media Composer, the international competition laureate will achieve even more in digital image processing. Eye-Lite enlightens Courtisane’s best Belgian production’s path with a gift voucher for lighting and camera rental.