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Speech Act (Spectacle)

Herman Asselberghs | Belgium | 2011 | 29min | color | Original version Dutch, English subtitles

 
 
Box office12 oct. 13:30Session 30

Excentris Fellini

3536 boul. Saint-Laurent Métro Saint-Laurent

 
 
Box office14 oct. 15:00Session 110

Centre PHI Espace B

407, rue Saint-Pierre, coin Saint-Paul, Vieux-Montréal

Synopsis :

Following up on his meticulous dissection of the Apple laptop (in Dear Steve), Herman Asselberghs now turns his attention to another global popular consumer product: Avatar, the most expensive and highest-grossing film ever. By way of an elaborated interior monologue taking on the form of a film studies class, Speech Act covers a complex of themes well beyond cinema concerns. As the acme of mainstream culture, James Cameron's sci-fi epic turns out to provide ample fodder for a critique of triumphant transparency, impressively delivered by the established Brussels actor Willy Thomas. Commissioned within the context of the project In and Out of Brussels: Africa Inside Europe, Asselberghs' newest work eloquently talks about all things black.

Spectacle (3 films)

These three medium-length films, while very different, all take a radical approach to the question of representation: a university lecture based on Avatar, a strange game of cat and mouse between the image and a Malcolm Lowry story and a rehearsal for a Christmas play on the theme of the Annunciation to the virgin Mary... Fascinating.