The Place of Documentary - Program

Leuven, 22 - 24 March 2022

LUCA School of Arts, in collaboration with DocNomads, Docville and Beursschouwburg

Tuesday 22 March

Opening night: Poetics of Exchange

19:30: welcome

20:00: screening Un film dramatique, Eric Baudelaire (2019, 2u)

22.00: reception

Wednesday 23 March

10:00 - 12:00    panel Ambiguity & Other Phenomenon

  • Pascal Vandelanoitte – Futuristic archive 
  • Philip Cartelli - In search of ambiguity
  • Nikolaj Lübecker - Watching Documentary Images with Niels Bohr: Barbet Schröder and Kazuo Hara   

moderator: Dara Waldron

13:00 – 14:30    artist talk Eric Baudelaire with Christina Stuhlberger

15:00 – 16:30    keynote by Dara Waldron           

‘I stare into a deep blue ocean and see only Light:' Making Sense of Personal Documentary as an Art of Nonfiction 

Optional:

20:00      screening festival Docville Cow (Andrea Arnold) or other film in the program of Docville

Thursday 24 March

10:00 – 12:00    panel Place of Documentary – Site: Contestation and Speculation

  • Stefanie Baumann - (De)Framing North Korea. On the critical potential of documentary forms     
  • Des O’Rawe - Moving Images: Documentary and Post-Conflict Northern Ireland
  • Eneos Çarka - Speculative Worlds: Anthropocentric Realities and World-Building in Speculative Documentaries
  • Maria Luna - Documentary Film Festival as site of displacement            

moderator: Roel Vande Winkel

13:00 – 16:00    introduction to the work of Wael Shawky – location Museum M Leuven

                              + visit expo Wael Shawky

16:00 – 17:00    keynote by Fiona Tan

20:00                  screening Ascent by Fiona Tan (80’)

Extra:

Please note that, even if the symposium takes place in Leuven, there is a short film by Fiona Tan screening in Brussels during the symposium as well:

Screening of the short film Depot (Fiona Tan, 2015, 22’) – on loop – 23 - 26 March 2022

Where?

Beursschouwburg, black box (accessible for free through the café)

Auguste Ortsstraat 20-28

1000 Brussels

https://www.beursschouwburg.be/nl/events/fiona-tan/