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.
This program and the following program (selection 11) are curated in dialogue with Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Eitan Efrat and Sonja Simonyi on the occasion of the first screening of Is it a knife because... and the Nurture program that took place in 2021 at Beursschouwburg.
In the presence of Sonja Simonyi, Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat
The Einschlafgeschichten are bed-time stories for children, made in 1976/77, in which Harun Farocki uses simple objects to elucidate cinematographic methods. Einschlafgeschichten doesn’t really speak of bridges, boats, or railroads but rather of two girls filling the space between daytime and dreamtime with a poetic game, an endless game, a game with no end. A game which can fade out without becoming fragmentary. “Are you asleep?”, one of them asks at the end of a clip — and the final shot is of the two, asleep; the game is over. The girls are played by Lara and Anna, Farocki’s daughters. (Hans J. Wulff)
German spoken, English subtitles
Hétpróba (Seven Trials) is a rarely shown film by Hungarian neo-avantgarde artist Dóra Maurer. It is an intimate portrayal of an opera singer/mother and her four children who act out amusing challenges while revealing hidden private tragedies in front of the camera. The film was digitized and translated by the National Hungarian Film Archive for the Nurture program at Beursschouwburg in 2021, curated by Sonja Simonyi, Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat.
Hungarian spoken, English subtitles
