Impakt Event: Kurt d'Haeseleer
'Archaic Smile.' This video explores the world of archaeological theme parks and re-enactments of historic battles. Why do people, by way of hobby or family outing, want to relive the past? Are fear and loathing of daily modernity involved? Or is it the 'disneyfication' of the past causing history to be turned into a controlled re-enactment of epidemics like the plague, or wars and battles by way of pleasure or entertainment?
The premiere of 'Archaic Smile' will form part of a sensorial anti-lecture in which Kurt d' Haeseleer will provide us with an insight into his oeuvre by means of a video montage. Next to showing his own work and his latest video 'Archaic Smile', the anti-lecture will integrate fragments from the work of Antonioni, Todd Haynes, Jürgen Reble and Derek Jarman topped off with audio fragment comments and Godardian text inserts. Following this presentation, Kurt d' Haeseleer will be interviewed by Bart Rutten (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam) and get on stage for a live-visual performance with TUK (Guillaume Graux).
Date: 25 November 2008, 19.00 hours
Location: Film Theater 't Hoogt, Hoogt 4, Utrecht
Tickets: 7.50 euro (CJP/U-pas: 6,50 euro)
Reservations: at info@hoogt.nl and by telephone at +31 (0) 30-2328388
Program:
- 'Archaic Smile' (d' Haeseleer 2008)
- 'Videodrome' (Cronenberg 1983)
- 'Slow' (d' Haeseleer 2008) with audio fragments of Werner Herzog and Zizek
- 'Le Mépris' (Godard 1963)
- 'End' (S*CKMYP) with audio fragments of Werner Herzog
- 'L' Eclisse' (Antonioni 1962) with audio fragments of Francis Bacon
- 'Radiant Face' (S*CKMYP) with fragments of Octavia Butler
- 'Zillertal' (Reble 1991)
- 'Safe' (Haynes 1995)
- 'Garden' (S*CKMYP) with audio fragments of JG Ballard
- 'Waded' (S*CKMYP) with audio fragments of JG Ballard
- 'L' Eclisse' (Antonioni 1962)
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'Archaic Smile' is produced within the framework of an Impakt Works/EMARE residency with the support of the City of Utrecht. This project will be funded with support from the European Commission, Culture Programme (2007-2013). This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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