ScreeningTalk
Renaud Barret
System K
17/11/2022
18/11/2022
System K, a film by Renaud Barret from 2018, portrays the artistic scene of Kinshasa. It depicts the social, political, and cultural context of Kinshasa, and shows the ways in which a vibrant performance scene emerges despite harassment from the authorities and the artists' personal difficulties..
There will be a Q&A with director Renaud Barret moderated by Ayoko Mensah (Artistic Programmer at BOZAR) after the screening (17.11).
TalkScreening
Day of Encounters: Constructed Histories, Conflicted Memories
03/09/2022
A day of encounters, presentations and screenings on the historic & contemporary entanglements b/w architecture urban history & colonialism
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Cinematek
The Act of Breathing
23/06/2022 — 31/07/2022
Until 31 July, CINEMATEK presents a selection of 26 films as part of The Act of Breathing. The programme has been put together by the Belgian-Congolese filmmaker Monique Mbeka Phoba.
Screening
Nam June Paik
Zen For Film
15/10/2020 — 18/10/2020
Zen for Film, a creation of absolute simplicity, is a major work created by Nam June Paik in between his participation in Fluxus and his work with TV, which marked the birth of art video. Somewhere between an event and a Zen garden this film is made up of unexposed film runs through a projector on an endless loop, gradually accumulating dust and scratches. John Cage’s Silence, the theory of information or the theatre of shades are all paths that enable one to approach Zen for Film and to follow the repercussions thereof in a wide range of contemporary works.
Screening
Nam June Paik
A Tribute to John Cage
15/10/2020 — 18/10/2020
A Tribute to John Cage is Paik's homage to avant-garde composer John Cage. A major figure in contemporary art and music, Cage was one of the primary influences on Paik's work, as well as his friend and frequent collaborator. In this multifaceted portrait, Paik creates a pastiche of Cage's performances and anecdotes, interviews with friends and colleagues, and examples of Paik's participatory music and television works that parallel Cage's strategies and concerns.
Screening
A tribute to anthology
Fluxfilm
04/02/2021 — 28/02/2021
The Fluxus group of artists, poets, composers and film makers are the self-proclaimed heirs of the anti-art streams of thought first introduced by Dada at the start of the 20th century. Using film as their medium of choice (“art by the metre”), they seek to fully dissolve the borders between art and life.
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Carolee Schneemann
Fuses
04/03/2021 — 29/03/2021
Fuses (1964-1967) by Carolee Schneemann, a cross between home movie and art film, combines artistic practices with erotic activities. The film forms a cinematographic manifestation of the American artist’s feminist viewpoints and her reflections on female sexuality.
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Isabelle Cornaro
24/09/2020 — 27/12/2020
In her films, Isabelle Cornaro recycles the issues of the ornamental and readymade, revealing the potential of found objects to create symbolic and ideological narratives.
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RENÉ HEYVAERT
26/06/2019 — 27/06/2019
Heyvaert remained unknown for most of his life. Nevertheless, after his death in 1984, his work had a posthumous recognition by a fringe of the art world, and the sharp but marginal critics. Since then, the confidential heritage of the artist and architect is cherished by a small circle of initiates. Recently, a new form of notoriety was finally granted - among others, by an ambitious retrospective at the M Museum of Leuven and by several publications that interrogate a singular facet of the character and its work that intertwines with his personal history.