Two films, two fishermen: one in Ostend and one in the remote Portuguese fishing village of Furadouro. The films are a feast for the eyes and ears, but this time also hungry stomachs will not be forgotten.
We invite the Brussels collective Dagvorm Cinema to accompany the films with a sensational Portuguese meal, appropriate to the season and the films. And then we moor, ready to go into the new year with dry feet.
OOSTEROEVER
QUINTEN WYNS — BE, 2017 – video — 23’
MUDAR DE VIDA
PAULO ROCHA — PT, 1966 – video — 90’
| 13/12 | 20:00 | Vrijstaat O | Oostende |
In Oosteroever, the Ostend film maker Quinten Wyns, through a look at the life of Marnix Verleene, paints a picture of a disappearing fishing community.
The Oosteroever is the neighborhood in Ostend where fishermen weave nets, play cards and kill time. That area is now being demolished: tall, white residential blocks are being built instead. On the shore, the film takes shape in scenes in which Marnix and his companions interpret themselves; at sea we look more indirectly, through shadows and reflections, at how life – even there – continues to happen.
Mudar de Vida by the Portuguese filmmaker Paulo Rocha, tells the story of a lonely and hurt man who returns from Angola to his birthplace, a small fishing village on the Atlantic coast.
While the man struggles with his feelings about his lost love, we get to know a community that fights with the wildness of the ocean. Impressive scenes in and around wooden fishing boats cut through the story of a man who seeks warmth and hopes in a way to break his spiral of poverty.
Tickets for the films with a sensational meal are € 15 or € 10 with a discount.
Single tickets (films only) are € 7 or € 5 with a discount.
Please make a reservation via info@monokino.org.
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Artistic coordination: Anouk De Clercq, Godart Bakkers
General coordination: Ditte Claus
Artistic team: Eric de Kuyper, Xavier Garcia Bardon
Production team: Bob Mees, Jef Declercq, Johan Opstaele, Noah Heylen
Communication: Cynthia Vandenbruaene
Graphic design: Michaël Bussaer. Webdesign: Dominique Callewaert.
With the support of Auguste Orts, CINEMATEK, KAAP, KASK School of Arts Gent, Onderzoeksfonds Universiteit Gent, Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds.
Whoever walks in Ostend today is confronted with a fantastic eclecticism: a brutal grey apartment block exists next to the glorious Thermae Palace. The mighty, almost Stalinist, building of De Grote Post dominates the Hendrik Serruyslaan. A former department store houses a museum for contemporary art. Belle-époque houses are hidden in the quiet but stately streets.
In 2017, one void struck artist Anouk De Clercq: that glorious film culture of Henri Storck, James Ensor or Raoul Servais had disappeared from the streets. With the closure of the Rialto cinema, the last independent cinema from the Ostend cinema circuit also disappeared. Against such an extraordinary backdrop, with the sea as a large projection surface for images, stories and histories, that is such a shame.
And so the idea of Monokino ripens: one room, marked by an equally fantastic eclecticism, where cinema can be itself again. One room where long and short films, film classics, auteur cinema, video art, experimental films, animation, or the work of young makers can find a place. Monokino shows, questions, responds, engages in conversation, invites, welcomes, puts in perspective. Monokino is a place of, by and for people from Ostend, for professionals and enthusiasts, for young and old, for those from here and those from there.
The films that Monokino wants to show don’t only live on the screen. They also spread between residents, spectators, and makers. In that sense, Monokino is also Kopfkino: a mental cinema, where images get the chance to live and multiply.
That’s how Monokino drifts nomadically through those eclectic streets of Ostend and settles in the heads and hearts of the people of Ostend. Soon it’ll moor for good.
Monokino wants to drive cinema into the 21st century and illuminate the adventurous side of film. While we strive for a permanent place as anchorage for cinefiles from Ostend and beyond, Monokino operates as a nomadic film platform.
The sea is Monokino’s favourite projection surface for images, stories and histories. In anticipation of our next screening, we’ve started to collect a list of films in which the sea plays a main or supporting role. Can you think of a film that’s not already on our list? We’d love to hear about it via info@monokino.org.
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