A new film by Image&Word researcher Peter Snowdon will have its avant-premiere at the Théâtre Océan Nord in Brussels at 5.30pm on Saturday 12 November. The screening is part of a journée-rencontre devoted to the work of the young French playwright and actress Aurélie Namur.

Dieu est dans les racines (God is in the roots) brings together fragments of the story of a hazardous journey through the Ecuadorian Amazon which Namur made several years ago, with Super 8 footage of her rehearsing the play which she subsequently wrote about her experience. The film explores the encounter with the anthropological Other as a metaphor for the creative processes of the theatre itself, and for the antagonistic relationship between actor and audience. This collision of words and closely connected yet apparently unrelated images is complemented and complicated by an original soundtrack by French sound artist Olivier Touche.

This film is the third of four parts that together make up the larger project Lost Persons Area.

Admission to the event, which includes a reading from Namur’s play Le Voyage égaré, and a book launch for the text, is free, but space is limited and seats should be reserved in advance. For more information:

http://www.oceannord.org/spip.php?article63

Luc Derycke (1963) trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, and since 1988 has worked as a publisher, editor and designer of books. His focus since 1993 has been on graphic design and the production of art books, including eight years as in-house designer for The Drawing Center in New York. A number of his books have been nominated for and won prizes both in the Netherlands and abroad. According to Derycke, his work is about bringing together ‘all aspects of the development of a book, which includes not only the content and form, but also the institutional context, historicity, relationship with the canon(s), market, budget, technology and materials’. Form, therefore, goes much further than just graphic design. In 2005, the artist founded Studio Luc Derycke and was joined by Thomas Desmet, then later Jeroen Wille, Ellen Debucqoy and Bart Hebben as well. Also in 2005, Derycke clustered his publishing activities in Paper Kunsthalle, a non-profit organisation aiming to investigate the book as a sort of mental exhibition space. Studio Luc Derycke has worked on projects for Walter KoÅNnig Verlag (Cologne), The Henry Moore Institute (Leeds), Gagosion Gallery (New York), the publishers Lannoo and Mercatorfonds, and more.

www.studiolucderycke.be

A-Z lectures take place on Tuesday at Zebrazaal at Z33.
Entrance is free, but registration is required.
Save your seat and fill out the registration form for the A-Z lecture by Luc derycke here.

Imaging History: Photography after the fact

A book edited by Bruno Vandermeulen and Danny Veys

In archaeology, photography is mainly used as a technique for gathering data and evidence. Within the framework of the research project ‘(in)site, site-specific photography revised’ the relationship between photography and archaeology, or broader, history is explored. How do photographers visualize history? What is the importance of place, particularly the place that remains after the event took place? How do photographers or artists use photography to depict the past, when time has become ‘past time’? These articles and portfolios explore, both on practical and theoretical level, how history can be captured.

IAMHIST master class on Media and History

Date: Friday January 13^th, 2012 – 09.30 am

Location: University of Southern California (Los Angeles)

Are you a graduate or doctoral student, post-doc, or young professional currently working on a project in which you engage issues concerning historical film, radio or television or issues in media history? Are you interested in presenting your project to a small group of experts and peers? Then this master-class of the International Association for Media and History may be just what you are looking for. Participants are expected to give a short introduction to their project and to prepare some central questions for discussion. Senior members of IAMHIST will engage with your paper and discuss sources and strategies for developing the project.

In de Cinémathèque française ging vorige week een internationaal colloquium door over digitale cinema. Op het programma stonden sprekers uit de archiefwereld (Cinémathèque française, Cineteca di Bologna, Deutsche Kinemathek), de industrie (Eclair, Kodak, Academy of Motion Picture Awards ofte ‘de oscars’), de Europese Commissie, de (Franse) overheid (Centre National de la Cinématographie – CNC), de academische wereld…