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.
Opening Night
reservation required for this screening
julie@courtisane.be
The screening is followed by a talk with Avi Mograbi.
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SELECTION 2016
A dialogue between new audiovisual works, older or rediscovered films and videos by artists and filmmakers who work in the expanded field of moving image practice.
Filmmaker Avi Mograbi and theatre practitioner Chen Alon go to meet African asylum-seekers in the Holot detention center in the middle of the Negev desert where they are confined by the state of Israel. Together they question the status of the refugees in Israel using ‘Theater of the Oppressed’ techniques. What leads men and women to leave everything and everyone behind and hurtle towards the unknown? Why does Israel, land of refugees, refuse to take into consideration the situation of the exiled, displaced and expelled by war, misery and abuse? Can the Israelis working with the asylum seekers put themselves in the refugee’s shoes? Can their collective unconscious be conjured up?