Shhh takes the power and poetry of silent film as a starting point for screenings, performances and an exhibition.
Shhh loves film in the broadest sense of the word.
GARY BEYDLER, YAMAZAKI HIROSHI, SOIT
Duur 46’
VISION TAKE 1 – YAMAZAKI HIROSHI – JP, 1973 – 8mm to digital – 3’46’’
HAND HELD DAY – GARY BEYDLER – USA, 1974 – 16mm – 6’
PASADENA FREEWAY STILLS – GARY BEYDLER – USA, 1974 – 16mm – 6’
SOIT – JOYCE LAINÉ – FR, 2022 – live 2 × 16mm projection – 30’
LIVE SOUNDTRACK: PAVEL VIRY
JOSÉ LEITÃO DE BARROS + CESAR DE SUTTER-PINOY
Duur 94’
MARIA DO MAR – PT, 1930 – 35mm to digital – 94’
LIVE SOUNDTRACK: CESAR DE SUTTER-PINOY (PEENOISE)
EVA CLAUS
Duur 43’
IVOM – EVA CLAUS – BE, 2018 – 16mm – 2’
RADSPIRALE – EVA CLAUS – BE, 2017 – 16mm – 3’
A STUDY IN CHOREOGRAPHY FOR CAMERA – MAYA DEREN – USA, 1945 – 16mm – 3’
TIRANA – EVA CLAUS – BE, 2019 – 16mm – 3’
APPLAUSE – EVA CLAUS – BE, 2017 – 16mm – 13’’
GO! GO! GO! – MARIE MENKEN – USA, 1962 – 1964 – 16mm – 12’
2HHEIM – EVA CLAUS – BE, 2018 – 16mm – 2’
ALL THINGS RUN – MIERIËN COPPENS – BE, 2018 – 16mm – 2’
REPORTING THE WEATHER – EVA CLAUS – BE, 2016 – Super 8 & 16mm blowup – 2’
FIRST WEEKS – ROBERT BEAVERS – DE/USA, 2014 – 16mm – 4’
POLLUX – EVA CLAUS – BE, 2015 – 8mm – 3’
UNTITLED – EWELINA ROSINSKA & NUNO BARROSO – DE, 2022 – 16mm – 3’
RUSSELL – EVA CLAUS – BE, 2018 – 16mm – 3’
DORE O.
Duur 78’
ALASKA – DE, 1968 – 16mm to digital – 18’
KASKARA – DE, 1974 – 16mm to digital – 21’
FROZEN FLASHES – DE, 1977 – 16mm to digital – 29’
STERN DES MELIÉS – DE, 1982 – 16mm – 11’
Frédéric Pardo + TG GONDARD
Duur 40’
HOME MOVIE AUTOUR DU LIT DE LA VIERGE DE PHILIPPE GARREL – FR, 1968 – 40’
LIVE SOUNDTRACK: TG GONDARD
LEGOWELT
Duur 70’
AMBIENT TRIP COMMANDER – DANNY WOLVERS – NL, 2022 – digital – 70’
LIVE SOUNDTRACK: LEGOWELT
HENRI STORCK
Duur 46’
OP DE BOORDEN VAN DE CAMERA – HENRI STORCK – BE, 1930 – 35mm – 12’
GESCHIEDENIS VAN DE ONBEKENDE SOLDAAT – HENRI STORCK – BE, 1932 – 35mm – 12’
IM SCHATTEN DER MASCHINE – ALBRECHT VIKTOR BLUM & LEO LANIA – DE, 1928 – 35mm – 22’
ESFIR SHUB + SEITAN SARDINE
Duur 101’
THE FALL OF THE ROMANOV DYNASTY – USSR, 1927 – 35mm – 101’
LIVE SOUNDTRACK: SEITAN SARDINE
Exhibition
| 09/09 — 17:00-20:00 | |
| 10/09 — 10:00-18:00 | |
| 11/09 — 10:00-17:00 | |
| 09/09 – 19:00, 11/09 – 12:00 PERFORMANCE ERIC KINNY | |
| DOMINIQUE GOBLET ERIC DE KUYPER ERIC KINNY EVA CLAUS KATJA MATER LILI DUJOURIE VINCENT LEROI |
in OHK |
Film + Performance + Music
| 09/09 | ||
| 20:00 | GARY BEYDLER, YAMAZAKI HIROSHI SOIT: JOYCE LAINÉ & PAVEL VIRY |
in KleinVerhaal |
| 21:30 | JOSÉ LEITÂO DE BARROS, Maria do Mar Live music: CESAR DE SUTTER-PINOY (PEENOISE) |
in KleinVerhaal |
| 10/09 | ||
| 14:00 | EVA CLAUS | |
| 16:00 | DORE O. | in De Grote Post |
| 20:00 | KATJA MATER TG GONDARD LEGOWELT UNI SON & JASPER VANHAUWAERT CLUB MAYZ |
in Elysee |
| 11/09 | ||
| 13:00 | HENRI STORCK ALBRECHT VIKTOR BLUM & LEO LANIA, Im Schatten der Maschine |
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| 14:30 | ESFIR SHUB, The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty Live music: SEITAN SARDINE |
in KleinVerhaal |
The idea to start Monokino was born in 2017 from the urgent need felt by a few film lovers to compensate the striking lack of movie theatres in the city of Ostend. Such was the context in which Monokino’s first screening took place a few months later, in March 2018: a town where all independent cinemas had disappeared since 2012, and where one single multiplex cinema represented contemporary film culture – in Ostend but also on the whole Belgian coast. In 2022, the situation seems pretty much unchanged, superficially at least.
Yet, if we look back in time, 100 years ago, the city of Ostend was one of the hottest spots of cinephilia in the whole country. A dozen cinemas were in activity when, in 1928, filmmaker Henri Storck founded the Club du Cinéma d’Ostende in order to give everyone in town the chance to see the avant-garde films from German expressionists, French surrealists, Russian Sergei M. Eisenstein, and the American documentarist Robert J. Flaherty. Supported by painters James Ensor, Constant Permeke and Léon Spilliaert, their screenings attracted numerous viewers. What would they think of today’s situation?
Monokino was created in order to give a voice – and a screen – to multiple points of view. It was born out of the need for multiplicity, diversity, complexity, inclusivity. With the support of the Flemish Audiovisual Fund (VAF) and the Flemish Authorities (VG) and soon, we hope, with the support of the city of Ostend, Monokino aims at being a site for the works of yesterday, today and tomorrow shared and discussed by multiple audiences, a welcoming place where the new and the old, the here and the there can coexist and engage in conversation.
Yet, Monokino has no fixed venue. As a nomadic film platform, we explore and try to rediscover the city, spot beautiful and/or neglected places and partner with several structures in order to share the multiple forms of the moving image: long and short films, classics, auteur cinema, video art, experimental films, animation…
This edition of SHHH will bring together the works of Dore O, Robert Beavers, Gary Beydler, Eva Claus, Maya Deren, Lili Dujourie, Dominique Goblet, TG Gondard, Yamazaki Hiroshi, Eric Kinny, Vincent Leroi, Katja Mater, Mieriën Coppens, Marie Menken, Ewelina Rosinska, Frédéric Pardo, Esfir Shub, Henri Storck, Joyce Lainé and Pavel Viry, among others. With them, and with you, we wish to foster together a fresh and dynamic view on film.
Today, more than ever, we think that the city of Ostend needs such places, such moments, such opportunities. We believe in the transformative power of cinema – as an art form and as a moment shared together by a community gathered in a physical space. Let’s watch films together, discover, experiment, exchange, discuss. Welcome to SHHH.
For its fourth edition, the festival will explore the past, present and future of silent moving images with a special attention for the interfaces between film, visual arts and music, homemade animation, political found footage works from the 1930s, para-cinematic speculations… And of course, as always: the sea, on screen and on site!
This year Shhh is organised by Monokino in collaboration with CINEA, OHK, KleinVerhaal, Pleasure Island and Universiteit Antwerpen.
With the support of Vlaamse Gemeenschap and Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds.
Communication: Emma Poorters. With thanks to all the the artists, the volunteers and all the people who collaborated on this edition.
SUPPORT — We currently work without subsidies, so your support is more than welcome and literally brings light to the screen:
BE80 7340 4532 5277 BIC: KREDBEBB
Payment reference: ‘Gift’.
Gifts above the sum of € 40 are tax deductible.
A gift of € 100 will only cost you € 55.
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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