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In addition to highlighting retrospectives and festivals, Sabzian selects and contextualises three to four films or events in Belgium and its surroundings every week.En plus de mettre en lumière des rétrospectives et des festivals, Sabzian sélectionne et contextualise chaque semaine trois à quatre films ou événements en Belgique et dans les environs.Naast het belichten van retrospectieven en festivals, selecteert en contextualiseert Sabzian elke week drie tot vier films of evenementen in België en omstreken.

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This Week’s Agenda

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Sara Schelstraete

The sixteen-year-old Sophie Podolski walked into the Montfaucon Research Center on a spring night in 1969. The house on Rue de L’Aurore, Brussels, was less an actual research center and more a living and working space for a collective of friends who continuously created art together. Joëlle de La Casinière took it upon herself to document the young artists on 16 mm film, which resulted in the film Dans la Maison (du Montfaucon Research Center), released in 2017. On Monday, 18 May, Art Cinema OFFoff is screening the film, which is largely centred on the rediscovered artist Sophie Podolski, preceded by an introduction from Flemish Review de la Poëzie. 

In To Sleep So as to Dream, a Japanese underground movie from 1986, an aging silent film actress hires a private investigator to track down her missing daughter. The vanished world of 1920s silent cinema bleeds into the actress’s present reality as they attempt to unravel the mystery by tracing obscure clues. Despite having no formal training as a filmmaker, Kaizô Hayashi shows a deep knowledge of, and interest in, film history, evident in both the content and the style of the film. KASKcinema is screening the film on Tuesday, 19 May as part of the university film club Filmplateau.

Cinematek is currently honouring author, filmmaker and feminist Marguerite Duras with an extensive program dedicated to her audiovisual work. On Saturday, 23 May, a screening of Les Enfants (1985) will be held, preceded by the short La fadeur sublime... de Marguerite Duras (1983) by artist and admirer Violaine de Villers, and followed by the 7-minute short En rachâchant (1982) by directors Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet. Duras’s film is based on her own publication titled Ah ! Ernesto, a children’s story she published in 1971. In addition to the three screenings, the event will also include a guest lecture.
 

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