Michel Houssiau

Three no-budget semi-professional filmmakers finally get their due in this witty but respectful documentary. Director Frederic Sojcher visits three fellow Belgian auteurs whose ambitions outstrip their budgets, or their recognition. Max Naveaux is a projectionist who decided to take a stab at making movies himself, putting together small-scale war films whose realism was heightened by the fact that the Belgian Ministry of Defense gave him permission to use real bullets for one of his movies. Schoolteacher Jacques Hardy has dabbled in creating film noir, costume horror, and comic-book adventures, most starring his friend Christian Vranken, who makes his living as a church caretaker and insists on casting approval for his female co-stars. And Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a self-styled surrealist whose commitment to obscurity is great enough that he insists on being interviewed while wearing a ski mask.

A young woman tries to ease herself out of the closet without terrifying her parents in the process in this comedy-drama. The year is 1969, and Sacha (Marie Bunel) is a young Belgian woman living in Canada. Sacha's family sent her to Canada to attend medical school, but she hasn't had the heart to tell them that she's dropped out of college to devote herself to her new interest in photography. Sacha also hasn't told her parents that she's a lesbian -- and that she has a new girlfriend, Odile (Macha Grenon). Odile is tired of being kept a secret, and insists that Sacha tell her parents the truth before American astronauts land on the moon in a few months -- or else. Sacha flies home to Belgium for a visit, planning to come clean to her folks, but she discovers they've arranged a huge welcome home party for the entire neighborhood. With everyone so excited that the soon-to-be-doctor is paying them a visit, Sacha wonders when the time will be right to give her family the news.

An ode to musicals past. Handsome men spend their time in a beautiful manor.

뮤지컬'80년대 갤러리'를 준비하던 아커만은 재정상의 문제로 3년을 기다려서야 완성을 볼 수 있었다. '80년대'는 그 지난한 3년 동안을 기록한'80년대 갤러리'의 제작 과정에 관한 다큐멘터리이다. 오디션을 준비하고, 동선 연습을 시키고,'80년대 갤러리'〉의 미장센을 고민하는 연출자 아커만을 이 영화에선 자연스럽게 지켜 볼 수 있다. 그러나〈80년대〉는 메이킹 다큐에만 머물지 않고, 독창적인 편집 리듬과 실험적인 사실 재현으로 새로운 픽션의 영역을 창출해낸다.

A celebration of the male form. A series of observations of men, filmed in beautiful black and white, with an almost total absence of the spoken word.

Samy Szlingerbaum made his film Dakh-Brisel (Brussels-Transit) in 1980, thirty years after any Yiddish feature film had been produced. Szlingerbaum felt that the only way he could relate the story of his family’s search for refuge after World War II was in Yiddish. This Belgian-based filmmaker, deeply impacted by New York experimental cinema, gives us a masterful blend of powerful drama and stark documentary to tell the story of postwar European Jewry. Home, as it had been, no longer exists, and all that Samy’s family wants is a place in which to sink new roots.

Several young men and women arrive one after the other at Hôtel des Acacias, full of hope, desire and vitality. In the bustle of this hotel, everyone is looking for love. Hôtel des Acacias was an exercise guided in 1982 by Chantal Akerman at Belgium’s INSAS audio-visual college.

옆 통로에서 시작한다. 창문 앞에 서면 벽 밖에 보이지 않고 줄을 서도 임금을 받지 못한다. 이 영화는 또한 이름과 나이가 적힌 신분 증명서를 교환하면서 시작한다. 총파업은 이렇게 해제되고 모든 것이 작동을 멈췄다. 자동차는 물론 노동자들까지도. 마침내 거리에서도 사람들이 수군댄다. 뭐라 부를 말도 없고 할 말을 찾을 길도 없다. 새로운 사상은 그렇게 다가오고 있었다.

"It's a very simple story, shot in a quiet street in Brussels. People waiting for the bus that is late, talking to each other, trusting each other, talking about the weather and giving each other practical tips. It is life as it is, in its troubling banality, that Van Antwerpen shows us. " (Luc Honorez, Le Soir, 1974).