Selection 4: A Play
Recent film and video by artists and filmmakers who open up new directions in the expanded field of contemporary moving image practice.
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.
Recent film and video by artists and filmmakers who open up new directions in the expanded field of contemporary moving image practice.
A couple is incapable of processing the death of a son in Afghanistan. The same scene repeats in various iterations. What begins as an emotional story of homecoming grows strange with each repetition and ends as a nightmare. As the son struggles to make sense of his increasingly surreal and alien home, it's getting obvious he never returned ...
A poetic feature film evolves into a dazzling montage in which staged dialogues, close-up shots of paintings and exotic objects and gems come together. A staccato voice-over becomes a leading element. Her name is Gonda, after the actress in Ayn Rand’s play Ideal, and she is in a discussion with a group of young transgender characters ...