<nettime-ann> Courtisane Festival 2009 // 23

Hi all,

Courtisane Festival 2009 is coming up.

Gent, Belgium. 23 - 26 April 2009. www.courtisane.be

- recent film and video work by Ben Rivers, Joost Rekveld, Jani Ruscica, Duncan Campbell, Philipp Lachenmann, Beatrice Gibson, Pavel Medvedev, Mary Helena Clark, Fred Worden, Ben Russell, Janie Geiser, Rosa Barba, John Price, Dariusz Kowalski, Rebecca Baron & Doug Goodwin, Deborah Stratman, Martha Colburn, Marie Losier and many, many others

- "Sculpting the Land : An evening on… Landscapes" with performances and screenings by Luke Fowler & Lee Patterson, Guy Sherwin, Emily Richardson, Chris Watson & Benedict Drew, Chris Welsby & William Raban, James Benning, Mungo Thomson

- "Past Imperfect : An evening on… Memory" with performances and screenings by Aki Onda, Gill Arnò, Associazione Home Movies - La camera ottica with Andrea Belfi, Stefano Pilia, Benjamin Francart & Xavier Garcia Bardon, Jasper Rigole, Alvin Lucier pieces performed by Thomas Smetryns, Heleen Van Haeghenborgh, Kristof Roseeuw & Michael Weilacher

- "Somewhere in Time : Explorations in Memory and History" with film and video work by Rebecca Baron, James Benning, Black Audio Film Collective, Matthew Buckingham, Kevin Jerome Everson, Hollis Frampton, Philip Hoffman, Nora Martirosyan, Julia Meltzer & David Thorne, The Otolith Group, Walid Ra’ad & The Atlas Group, Rea Tajiri, Leslie Thornton, Vision Machine, Soon-Mi Yoo.

- "A Simple Truth", an exhibition with work by Ivan Grubanov, Phil Collins, Kevin Jerome Everson, Mark Raidpere

- "Artist in Focus" is Guy Sherwin

- and oh, yes, we have a special "Baby Matinee", with work by Robert Breer, Oskar Fischinger, Jean Painlevé and others

Courtisane offers free accreditations to professionnals from the audiovisual sector (curators, festival programmers, distributors, producers, journalists, teachers, students ...) who wish to attend. You just need to write to [email protected] and mention :

* contact details (email, postal address, telephone number)

* function / organization

* passport photo

Welcome!

Looking forward,

Stoffel

Stoffel Debuysere

[email protected]