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.
An initiative of CINEMATEK and Courtisane, in collaboration with Le Service de Culture cinématographique (SCC).
On the occasion of this program, Courtisane, Sabzian and Cinematek have collected a series of writings and interviews in a small-edition publication (French/English).
Two women and two men meet, converse with one another and ask questions, even about the use of words, but especially about fundamental matters concerning happiness and love. Is the harmony of love reconcilable with wisdom and intelligence, with fear and fatigue? With humour, seriousness and pleasure, these men and women, who know the price of existence, seek their road together. "The reconciliation mentioned is not the one you first think of. It is not about people who argue and then make up. It’s rather reconciled with the fact that everything appears and then disappears. It’s the world itself, and there is no other, which the four characters begin to accept. "(AMM)
French spoken, English subtitles