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Film and media
We cannot get round the fact that film and image culture are constantly making deep inroads
on our culture, and are increasingly playing a decisive role in shaping it. BRUGGE 2002 did
not remain indifferent to the obstinate dreams of a number of filmmakers, and saw to it that
a number of new projects were given the seed needed for them to grow and develop. Various
projects were accorded a place within the programme in various ways from the point of view
of content.
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Creation
Q-tag, the Bruges organisation for young people and film, offered five young people
between sixteen and eighteen the chance to make their own short film. A year full of
brainstorming sessions and workshops on script writing, direction, camera, lighting,
photography and sound resulted in El Fish d’Or, a colourful, poetic and abstract short
film.
BRUGGE 2002
The tragedy of forty-eight Chinese refugees dying of suffocation in a freight container
in 2000 inspired Jan Lauwers, theatre maker and plastic artist, to make his first
feature-length film, Goldfish Game - a film about jealousy, power and lost ideals.
In the short film Het oog van de Zee (The Eye of the Sea), director Dany Deprez and
writer/philosopher Frank Van De Veire tell a love story, with a camera style evoking a
thriller and using nature as a third character. As regards the production, a deliberate
choice was made to work with the Sint-Lucas
College in Ghent and the Narafi College in
Brussels, and the actors were not professionals.
This meant an additional commitment for the project.
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Production
The Cinema Novo film festival has been setting
itself up for years as a driving force behind the distribution
of films from Asia, Africa and Latin
America. BRUGGE 2002 decided to award two
prizes for post-production, in conjunction with
Cinema Novo. Both films were screened during the
Cinema Novo festival. Rachida even did well in the
Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival and
was subsequently shown again during the BRUGGE
2002 film month in the autumn.
Benoît
Dany Deprez and Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem
brought a cast-iron screenplay to BRUGGE 2002,
and we immediately jumped at the chance of giving
them an initial helping hand. Thereupon the necessary
funds for the family film Science Fiction were
found quite quickly. It was a splendid film, which
was shot almost entirely in and around Bruges.
Inherent link as regards content
The following film projects came to fruition
because they had an inherent connection, as
regards their content, with other parts of the
BRUGGE 2002 programme.
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