Bart Versteirt

Bart Versteirt

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  • After Manet, After Giorgione – Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe or Fete Champetre

  • Berlin Horse

  • Castle One (The Light Bulb Film)

  • Couples Retreat

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  • Knock at the Cabin

    Knock at the Cabin

    Doesn't lean too hard on its allegory of spectatorship, although it is certainly in there (e.g. in the very frontal close-ups, as if we as spectators are also being looked at—everyone is a spectator, not just us in the audience, but also the characters, both in the narrative and in the mise en scène). More than that, this is a film about empathy (I'm thinking of the last scene and the needle drop—one person turning off the radio because they…

  • Here

    Here

    A film about overcoming (physical) distances:

    between Belgium and Romania;
    between Jette and Vilvoorde;
    between family, friends and strangers;
    between nature and 'civilization';
    between words and things;
    between a researcher and their subject;
    between the microscopic and what is visible to the human eye;
    between figures in the frame;
    between the camera and the world;
    between the perceptible and the imperceptible.