Brussels, Maison des Cultures de Saint-Gilles, 25 & 27 nov 2008, free
in cooperation with Atelier Graphoui

The artists and filmmakers in this program attempt to revitalize perception, offering an alternative or counterweight to the ways in which technological interfaces determine our relation to the world. . At the crossroads between cinematographic codes and genres, these films and videos seek to dismantle the common a priori assumptions on animation film and its limitations. Fragments of collective and individual memories are redrawn, with pencils and pixels, light, movement and (algo)rhythms, in search of new possible relations between world and representation, image and subject, dream and data, the aesthetical and the political. Animation as re-animation.

With Stephen Andrews, Robert Breer, Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, Sky David, Dirk de Bruyn, Kota Ezawa, Paul Glabicki, Stuart Hilton, Jonathan Hodgson, Ken Jacobs, Cathy Joritz, Jonathon Kirk, LEV, Frank & Caroline Mouris, Dietmar Offenhuber, Jenny Perlin, Josh Raskin, Bob Sabiston, Carolee Schneemann, Karl Tebbe

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Pauze Festival, Vooruit, Gent, 14 november 2008

With its fourth edition of PAUZE, the annual off—stream festival for new music, KRAAK presents you a fresh bunch of unconventional, eccentric and exciting artists. This year we cross space with synth psych, noise gems, Korean folk and jazz, French outsiders and German avant-garde. With a film program, a lecture and a website full of background information, PAUZE offers you enough for three days of pure amazement.

Courtisane curated the film programme for 'Soul Shredders of Seoul', a part of Pauze that focuses on Korea. In Gajok Chosangwa, spurred on by the loss of hair, the director begins a journey of discovery into more than just his genetic make up. And Wyspa is the story of girl in a strange community run by a priest who is more concerned by the escape of some black goats or the effectiveness of the symbol of the cross.

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MuHKA_media, Antwerp, 12, 19 and 26 september

From September 11th until January 4th MuHKA presents The Order of Things, an exhibition about the uses of image archives and other manifestations of a classificatory or “encyclopaedic” impulse in contemporary art. Within this context, MuHKA_media will host six screening programs dealing with the recuperation and reconfiguration of “found” images in film and video. The makers of these works use bits and scraps from the media reality surrounding us as a basis for the construction of new meanings, in search of a poetry of movement, a syntax of fragmentation, bringing divergent elements together in a system of construction in which they belong: cinema. Based on a series of codes and axioms, cinema can be subject to multiple forms of ideological appropriation, both cinematographic and meta-cinematographic, as well as on a micro-level – each shot is itself a succession of frames. In these film and video works the meaning and the hierarchy of images become subordinated to a new logic, a subversive, narrative or totalizing order taken out of the ‘infinite cinema’, the world in/as images.

With Thom Andersen & Malcolm Brodwick, Alan Berliner, Abigail Child, Lenka Clayton, Bruce Conner, William Farley, Morgan Fisher, Hollis Frampton, Christoph Girardet, Arthur Lipsett, Frank & Caroline Mouris, Norbert Pfaffenbichler, Simon Pummell, Chick Strand.

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