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27.02.11
Gerhard-Jan Claes & Olivia Rochette The Courtisane Festival is this year preparing to celebrate it’s tenth anniversary in style. Courtisane, in search for relevant and alternative cinematographic forms and experiences brings once again this year a number of surprises. Resistant and poignant, experimental and reflexive, complex and sensual : the selection of works in the programme represent a kaleidoscopic mosaic of styles, media, gestures, languages and emotions; ...

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Blurring the boundaries of documentary and fiction by María Palacios Cruz

21.09.10
Blue Meridian, Sofie Benoot María Palacios Cruz considers two very different approaches to dealing with fact through fiction – Sofie Benoot’s Blue Meridian and David Simon’s Treme. Treme – the new TV drama from David Simon, creator of The Wire – is set in post-Katrina New Orleans, and documents the struggles of a city and its people to survive in the wake of natural and political disasters. ...

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30.01.10
Courtisane Festival, Gent Dates: 17-21 March | Location: Gent, Belgium The uniquely brilliantly Belgian Courtisane has launched a new website, announcing some of the programme for its festival in March. This year’s Artists in Focus are animation star David O’Reilly and the great Morgan Fisher, whose engaging and clever films work their way between avant-garde cinema, film industry and contemporary art. Plenty more and it’s all in funky ...

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22.12.09
It’s the last chance to enter the 2010 Courtisane Festival as the deadline of 31 December looms ever closer. The Courtisane Festival is looking for film, video and media art works for the next festival which takes place on 23-26 April 2010, in Ghent, Belgium. They require that the films or projects must have been completed after 2007 and that any Non Dutch, French or ...