Looking for Langston
13 August, 2021 - 19:15
CINEMATEK, BRUSSELS
Courtisane is een platform voor film en audiovisuele kunsten. In de vorm van een jaarlijks festival, filmvertoningen, gesprekken en publicaties onderzoeken we de relaties tussen beeld en wereld, esthetiek en politiek, experiment en engagement.
Courtisane is a platform for film and audiovisual arts. Through a yearly festival, film screenings, talks and publications, we research the relations between image and world, aesthetics and politics, experiment and engagement.
A lyrical exploration—and recreation—of the private world of poet and writer Langston Hughes (1902 –1967) and his contemporaries of the Harlem Renaissance movement, inspired by the work of photographers such as James Van Der Zee and George Platt Lynes.