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COURTisane

  • Ghent, Belgium April 2009, TBA
  • Call for Entry Deadline: December 15, 2008
  • Festival Data:
    • Competitive
  • Festival Website:
    http:/ / www.courtisane.be/
  • Festival Description:

    Courtisane is a collective of wayward programmers and organizers that started with a yearly festival of short film, video and new media in 2002.

    While the Courtisane festival remains the organizer's main engine for the discovery of fascinating works, while being a curator/filter/quality label for small scale events and short film and video programmings on other events in Belgium and abroad.

    Courtisane explores the national and international field of audiovisual creation with a focus on short film, video and new media projects from artists/creators who challenge boundaries, are innovative, and give new meaning to existing concepts. Crossmediality (the common grounds with music, performance and graphic arts) further fills in the Courtisane repertoire. To this end, Courtisane work together with likeminded partners such as (K-RAA-K)³, a platform for adventurous pop music, and Fricties, a platform for media art within arts centre Vooruit (Ghent).

  • Film Submissions:
  • Email:info(at)courtisane.be
    Phone:(32) 09 219 9143
    Fax:(32) 09 219 9143
    Mailing Address: Scheldestraat 169,
    Ghent B-9040
    Belgium

                                                                                                                                                       

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  • APR 28 05:43PM FFW Festival Editor writes:
    Award Winners Announced for 2008 COURTisane
    National and international competition: the winners!

    International Competition
    Neil Beloufa for "Kempinski," 2007, FR/ML, 15’
    Neil Beloufa (Algerian/French, born in Paris in 1985) studied at Ecole des Beaux Arts and Arts Decoratifs in Paris. As an exchange student he studied at Cooper Union in New York and the California institute of Arts. Beloufa mainly works with video and sculpture.

    The Jury:
    An unusual and fresh documentary experiment. You have to see the film twice, to really get it. Beloufa made portraits of several Malinese people. He gave them these guidelines: Imagine how your future looks, but talk about it in the present tense. As soon as you know this you want to see the film again, to look for more details. Visions of the future, that to us are hopeful and spiritual. The futuristic feel of the film clashes with our western ideas about that part of the world. With some very simple elements Beloufa succeeds in building an effective scenography. The fluorescent light adds a futuristic feel to the filmed environment. The sounddesign is build on a simple element effectively: a humming noise strange to the context. Light and sound support a coherent scenario.

    International Competition
    Isabelle Tollenaere for "Stil Leven / Still Life," 2007, BE, 17’
    Isabelle Tollenaere just graduated from the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussels.

    The jury:
    A film that starts with a dead cat being hoovered, an image that I wouldn’t have expected to see. The mise-en-scene is happy and colourful. But something about the image is unsettling. It seeks a balance between cute and morbid.

    The Prizes:

    The international competition: Avid - the new Media Composer

    The national competition: Eye-Lite - light and camera rental, Noise Reduction - sound, set and studio
    report
  • JUN 11, 2007 02:15PM FFW Films Editor writes:
    Award Winners for COURTisane 2007
    First Award: “First Elections”
    Directed by: Sarah Vanagt

    Second Award: “_imovie_ [3]_ silver lips / for me”
    Directed by: Els Opsomer

    Third Award: “y,x”
    Directed by: Shelbatra Jashari
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