... http://old.courtisane.be Thu, 17 May 2012 10:06:04 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://old.courtisane.be/latest/volgende-week.html A new (and improved) website, with news, a blog, a media-archive and the first confirmed artists for the upcoming festival! A few days ago we closed the call for entry. The result: 1372 films and videos that our programmers have to browse through ... News - Latest Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:09:48 +0100 http://old.courtisane.be/latest/altered-states.html 20 28 November 2009, Les Brigitinnes, Brusselsin the context of Video Vortex V (http://www.diagonalthoughts.com/?p=862) , hosted by Cimatics Festival (http://www.cimatics.com/festival2009/) .With the digital invading every creative enterprise and form of expression, pencils have become pixels, dreams have turned into data. While cinema’s obsession with the “holy grail” of photorealism has generated a blizzard of visual extravaganzas aimed at a suspension of the distinction between representation and simulation, a generation of DIY bricoleurs use ubiquitious “tools of vizuality” (Kevin Kelly) to explore alternative viewings and readings of the familiar. Through processes of transference, translation and combination, they encode, reveal or impose layers of information and deceive expectations about visibility and availability. Poking the surfaces of various images, sounds and symbols, their renderings create poetic, playful and often melancholic environments that are both alien and familiar, questioning our relation to images and our imagination.with Stephen Gray, Joseph Ernst, Chirstinn Whyte Jake Messenger, Oliver Laric, Max Hattler, David O’Reilly, Michael Robinson, Dave Griffiths, Jonathon Kirk, Dietmar Offenhuber, Rebecca Baron Doug Goodwin, Nicolas Provost, Bernard Gigounon, Stewart Smith, Kurt D’Haeseleer Tuk (Live) News - Latest Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0100 http://old.courtisane.be/latest/the-capital-of-the-ruins.html friday 20 nov 2009, 20:00, Sphinx, Sint Michielshelling 3, 9000 Gentin the context of Time is a Book When everything becomes uncertain, chances appear. The filmmakers in this programme do not accept a status quo but cherish a hope. They re-evaluate the past, look at today and develop utopian and/or dystopian ideas about the future. Time and space disappear bit by bit, a non-linear stream with personal and sociological problems as lead actors. The future always doubts itself! with Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Herman Asselberghs, Lav Diaz, Neil Beloufa, Brad Butler Karen Mirza News - Latest Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:15:48 +0100 http://old.courtisane.be/latest/courtisane-te-gast-op-the-independent-film-show-2009.html The Independent Film Show (http://www.em-arts.org/independent-film-show-2009-edition%20) , 4 5 November 2009, Napels (IT)Stoffel Debuysere and Maria Palacios Cruz, members of the courtisane collective, compiled two programmes for this Italian festival. A special on the straightforward, elegant and playfull 16mm films of Morgan Fisher, and a glance at the possibilities of cinema to generate associations, intentionally or not. Morgan Fisher will introduce 'his' programme ... News - Latest Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0100 http://old.courtisane.be/latest/courtisane-festival-2010-the-dates.html From 18 'till 21 march 2010 ... News - Latest Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0100