Café-brasserie A la Mort Subite. Filmed early March 2019.
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Brussels’ Cinema Nova – Solidarity space contra roundups of undocumented migrants – sans papier. Non-profit Belgian movie theater and space for inter-cultural expression and social critique. Filmed early March 2019.
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Short impression of visiting JR: Chronicles in the Groninger Museum in Groningen, The Netherlands — a major show of the work of the artist JR, organized by the Brooklyn Museum. Here focusing on the video wall of Inside Out projects, screening our short film Béguinage Refugees Into The Wild.
The exhibition is touring the world. First , the Brooklyn Museum in New York from October 4, 2019 – May 3, 2020. Next, the Saatchi Gallery in London from June – Oct 2021. And more recent the Groninger Museum in Holland (The Netherlands) from Nov 2021 untill June 2022 — filmed here June 2022. A promotional film with images of all these places was posted 20220107.
The show highlights JR’s global public participatory art project INSIDE OUT ( @insideoutproject ) .
A video wall is screening the Best of INSIDE OUT videos – including our film ‘Béguinage Refugees Into The Wild’ – a short documentary on the Inside Out project “Justice for Afghan refugees in Belgium”.
Our short film documents the Afghan refugees living in the Brussels Béguinage church , with music by Félix Snyers on the Béguinage church pipe organ, and their portrait’s (posters) by Chiara Ravano for the Inside Out project “Justice for Afghan refugees in Belgium” exhibition at Olivier Bonny’s workshop in Salon Mommen, Brussels, Belgium, March 2014. A Beguinage Project report by Kristen Cattell & Michel van der Burg.
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Blaes street shop window, Marolles quarter of Brussels, Sunday afternoon March 10, 2019. Looks like the first camera I used from the age of 13 years – a Voigtländer Vito B of C.
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100 Ans • 100 Realisateurs • 100 Films , memorial which honours Joseph Plateau – a genius – one of the first people to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image with his phenakistiscope .
Work of art by Patrick Rimoux inaugurated 1996 on the occasion of the first centenary of producing films.
Corner of Rue Joseph Plateau and Rue Mertens near the Church of Saint Catherine in Brussels, Belgium. Filmed early March 2019.
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