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22 June
Thursday 22-06-2023
time 17:30
Teatro Sperimentale - Sala Grande

Il mio film

Hannes Verhoustraete

BROKEN VIEW

Belgio 2023 , 75'

 

With the presence of the selectors Paola Cassano, Cecilia Ermini and Raffaele Meale

Post-colonial studies meet the history of visuality. This could be a summary of this essay film that, with considerable visual flair, but a serious anthropological approach, investigates the nature and modes of the gaze and of constructing the Other. Namely, it departs from the invention of the magic lantern and howlantern projections were to be employed to ‘sell’ the colonial project not only to the Belgian public, but also to the colonized themselves. However fragile images made of glass may be, many thousands survived. Often lavishly hand-coloured, these tainted, horribly beautiful artefacts are the main raw material of the film, along with slides, photographs, and footage of the time that illustrate the tension between aesthetic experience and the reverberation of colonial ideology. The film attempts to map the colonial gaze from a broken view, how it persists across time and shapes the way we view, think of, and speak about the past.

   

MILENA GIERKE crediti Martin Schoeller

 

A filmmaker, teacher, and researcher at KASK / School of Arts Ghent, Hannes Verhoustraete after studying journalism and cinema graduated in 2013 with the short film 28 Rue Brichaut. In the same year he joined Sabzian.be, a cinephile website, as writer, editor, and translator. Hannes was one of the winners of the 2016 Vocatio Award. Both his first feature film Un pays plus beau qu’avant (2019) and Broken View are part of a re- search project on the essay form as a historiographic mode.

 

cinematography Hannes Verhoustraete
editing Hannes Verhoustraete
sound Nina de Vroome
production Accattone Films
cast Ditmar Bollaert


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