Shhh takes the power and poetry of silent film as a starting point for screenings and performances. For its fifth 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 … And of course, as always: the sea, on screen and on site!
JASPER RIGOLE (IICADOM), Seven types of Sea
Duur 60’
CACHELOT – JASPER RIGOLE (EDIT) – BE, 2023 – 8MM TO DIGITAL – 6’
LA MER – DHD – 8MM TO DIGITAL – 6’
A DAY AT THE SEASIDE – ANONIEM – 9.5MM TO DIGITAL – 7’
AMFIBIGUÏTEIT – JASPER RIGOLE (EDIT) – BE, 2023 – SUPER8 & 8MM TO DIGITAL – 11’
LOOKING FOR ANNA – ANONIEM – SUPER8 TO DIGITAL – 16’
LA MER GELÉE – ANONIEM – 8MM TO DIGITAL – BE, 1963 – 5’
SPRINGTIJ – ANONIEM – 8MM TO DIGITAL – 5’
SEA GAZE – JASPER RIGOLE (EDIT) – BE, 2023 – 8MM TO DIGITAL – 6’
EEN IMPRESSIE VAN DE ZEE – ANONIEM – 16MM TO DIGITAL – 5’
ISABELLE CORNARO, I
Duur 44’
FLOUES ET COLOURÉES – ISABELLE CORNARO – FR, 2010 – 16mm to digital – 3’13”
FIGURES – ISABELLE CORNARO – FR, 2011 – 16mm to digital – 2’27”
LEMON – HOLLIS FRAMPTON – USA, 1969 – 16mm – 7’
COLOR SEQUENCE – DWINELL GRANT – USA, 1943 – 16mm – 2’30”
AMPLIFICATIONS – ISABELLE CORNARO – FR, 2014 – 16mm to digital – 2’09”
CINQ MINUTES DE CINÉMA PUR – HENRI CHOMETTE – FR, 1927 – 16mm – 5’
SONG OF OPPOSITES – ISABELLE CORNARO – FR, 2008 – 16mm to digital – 4’40”
UTAH SEQUENCES – NANCY HOLT – USA, 1970 – 16mm to digital – 9’25”
ESCAPE SCENES – KASPER FEYRER – CAN, 2014 – 16mm – 4’
TRANSIENT – ISABELLE CORNARO – FR, 2020 – 16mm to digital- 1’18”
CHOSES – ISABELLE CORNARO – FR, 2014 – 16mm to digital – 2’06”
ISABELLE CORNARO, II
Duur 43’
PREMIER RÊVE D’OSKAR FISCHINGER – ISABELLE CORNARO – FR, 2008 – 16mm to digital – 3’18”
CELEBRATION – ISABELLE CORNARO – FR, 2013 – 16mm to digital – 5’45”
THEMIS – DWINELL GRANT – USA, 1940 – 3’30”
DE L’ARGENT FILMÉ DE PROFIL ET DE TROIS QUARTS – ISABELLE CORNARO – FR, 2010 – 16mm to digital – 1’56”
RADIO DYNAMICS – OSKAR FISCHINGER – USA, 1942 – 4’
PROJECTIONS – ISABELLE CORNARO – FR, 2009 – 16mm to digital – 1’54”
PILLAGES – ISABELLE CORNARO – FR, 2019 – 16mm to digital – 1’30”
KRISTALLEN IN KLEUR – JAN CORNELIS MOL – NL, 1927 – 9’30
FLOWERS – ISABELLE CORNARO – FR, 2022 – 1’16”
UNTITLES (CRUTCHES) – PETER WÄCHTLER – DE, 2013 – 8’26”
EYESORE – ISABELLE CORNARO – FR, 2020 – 2’29”
HELGA FANDERL, Am Meer I + II
Duur 50’
I (1993 – 1996)
GROSSER PLATZ UND MEER
SITZENDE
MAUER UND MÖWEN
SPAZIERGANG IM HAFEN
MUSCHELFÄNGER
VOR DEM FISCHFANG
NETZAUFZIEHEN
SARDINENKÖRBE
II (1990 – 2023)
VON EINEM SPAZIERGANG
SENTIER LITTORAL
MUSCHELN UND MEER
WOLKEN IN ÉTRETAT
AN EINEM BODDEN
FISCHERBOOTE
KONVERSATION AM STRAND
MENSCHEN AM MEER
AROUND BEAUTIFUL EYES
Duur 57’
VOOR JE MOOIE OGEN – HENRI STORCK – 1929-30 – 6’40”
KUNSTENAARSONTMOETING – HENRI STORCK – 1945 – 7’
VISITE À FELIX LABISSE – ALAIN RESNAIS – 1947 – 8’
EMAK-BAKIA – MAN RAY – 1926 – 16’
FILMSTUDIE – HANS RICHTER – 1926 – 3’50”
LIGHT RHYTHMS – FRANCIS BRUGIĖRE & OSWELL BLAKESTON – 1930 – 5’19”
ON EYE RAPE – TAKAHIKO IMURA – 1962 – 9’
PUSSY’S GLASSES – BRITISH PATHÉ – 1930 – 46”
SEANEMAXIMILIAAN
Duur 86’
SUPERBODY 861 – AGATA JASTRZABEK – BE, 2023 – 12’
MOVING MOMENTS – GWENDOLYN LOOTENS – BE, 2023 – 3’
HER RIGHT – SAODAT ISMAILOVA – UZ, 2020 – 15’
A DECLARATION OF THE RIGHT OF HUMAN BEINGS – NICOLAS KAZAKIS & RAOUL VANEIGEM – BE, 2020 – 5’
OCEAN TREE – ANGELA AL SOULIMAN – BE, 2023 – 11’
LAST SHOT – JACQUELINE MESMAEKER – BE, 2006-2010, 3’
UNTIL IT FITTED – JACQUELINE MESMAEKER – BE, 2007 – 6’
ENKEL ZICHT NAAR ZEE – JACQUELINE MESMAEKER – BE, 1978 – 6’
BALLADE AUX SOURCES – MED HONDO – MR 1965 – 25’
| 15/09 | TICKETS | |
| 20:00 | JASPER RIGOLE, Seven types of Sea Live Music: THOMAS SMETREYNS, MARIEKE BERENDSEN, JACOB VANNESTE |
in KAAP |
| 22:00 | ISABELLE CORNARO, I | in KAAP |
| 16/09 | TICKETS | |
| 14:00 | HELGA FANDERL, Am Meer I + II | in De Grote Post |
| 15:30 | Around Beautiful Eyes with HENRI STORCK, ALAIN RESNAIS, MAN RAY, HANS RICHTER, FRANCIS BRUGIÈRE & OSWELL BLAKESTON, TAKAHIKO IMURA, BRITISH PATHÉ Live music: CASPER JACOBS |
in De Grote Post |
| 17:00 | ISABELLE CORNARO, II | in De Grote Post |
| 16/09 | TICKETS | |
| 20:00 | Seanemaximiliaan with AGATA JASTRZABEK, GWENDOLYN LOOTENS, SAODAT ISMAILOVA, NICOLAS KOZAKIS & RAOUL VANEIGEM, ANGELA AL SOULIMAN, JACQUELINE MESMAEKER, MED HONDO Live Music: CARTE NOIRE |
in KAAP |
This fifth edition of SHHH is slightly smaller, more intimate and therefore extra cozy. Last year we went big and loud, with 35mm and techno – this year we’re going for the living room feeling by focusing on 8mm, intimate musical accompaniment and good food.
Artist Jasper Rigole will show a selection of home movies from the IICADOM archive (The International Institute for the Conservation, Archiving and Distribution of Other people’s Memories), which he founded and of which he is the sole archivist. The images selected by Rigole are provided with a soundtrack by Thomas Smetryns in collaboration with Marieke Berendsen and Jacob Vanneste.
Besides being a medium used to make countless holiday films, 8mm is an artistic medium. Artist Helga Fanderl shot more than a thousand films on 8mm since the 1980s, which she uses for screenings and exhibitions. For SHHH, she selects work that has a link to the sea. Silently, her images will be shown in De Klas of De Grote Post.
Besides Fanderl, artist Isabelle Cornaro is this edition’s artist in focus. Cornaro shows a selection of her work and brings it together with films from the historical avant-garde and experimental film, alongside work by contemporary makers.
With Steven Jacobs, we dive into Ostend’s art and film history. Filmmaker Henri Storck was friends with French surrealist and autodidact Felix Labisse. Labisse had settled in Ostend because of his fascination with Ensor. Together, Labisse and Storck made For your beautiful eyes, a surrealist film centered on eyes. Starting from this work, Jacobs takes us through a film lesson on eyes and Labisse. Jacobs’ lesson will be backed musically by Casper Jacobs.
For the first time, Seanemaximiliaan will be organized by the founders of Cinemaximiliaan, who swapped Brussels for Ostend a few years ago and decided to focus on their own artistic work. They invite the many friends they made over these years to a warm family day by the sea, a joint dinner and a program of silent films and videos. Curated by Gawan Fagard with works by Agata Jastrzabek, Gwendolyn Lootens, Saodat Ismailova, Nicolas Kozakis & Raoul Vaneigem, Angela Al-Souliman and Jacqueline Mesmaeker.
The festival ends with Ballade aux sources, Med Hondo’s first film that was only recently recovered. Unlike all the other films we are showing this year, this one was not originally silent, but only lost its voice many years later. Brussels-based slam poetry collective Carte Noire takes up the gauntlet and gives Ballade aux sources its voice back.
Finally, we would like to say a word of thanks to the City of Ostend, its inhabitants – who welcome us with open arms every year – in the first place, but also to the city council, without whose support this edition could not exist.
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With the support of the Flemish Audiovisual Fund, the French embassy and the city of Ostend.
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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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