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The screening of De grote vakantie [The Long Holiday] (2000) yesterday marked the end of the Johan van der Keuken retrospective in Brussels, jointly organized by @sabzian.bsky.social and @cinematek.bsky.social. Thank you to all the audience members who have followed the program since November!

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Nouvelle collection : Work in Progress / Les films de Johan van der Keuken Ce recueil offre une vue d’ensemble des textes disponibles en français sur Sabzian à propos de l’œuvre de JvdK, ainsi qu’une filmographie multilingue complète et annotée.

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C’est cela que le cinéma a par excellence inventé : des corps singuliers porteurs d’émotions nouvelles. La cinéphilie n’est pas l’amour des vieux films. Elle est l’amour de ces inventions singulières qui bouleversent les formes de notre perception et la teneur de nos émotions.»

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New collection: Work in Progress / The Films of Johan van der Keuken This collection gathers all English-language texts on Sabzian on the work of JvdK, along with a complete multilingual annotated filmography (62 films!).

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“Valt er iets te ontwaren in de leegte die volgt na dit onzekere ‘happy end’ zonder verlossing?” Tillo Huygelen over Sean Bakers Anora (2024)

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Eye Filmuseum celebrates the legacy of Feministisch Filmkollektief [Feminist Film Collective] Cinemien (1974–1989), a pioneering film collective that sought to amplify the voices of female filmmakers in the Netherlands.

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Malian director and writer Souleymane Cissé passed away on 19 February in Bamako, Mali, at the age of 84.

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« La musique [chez Johan van der Keuken] ne vient pas seulement des morceaux joués, mais est toujours là, comme un bain qui imprègne tout, une pulsation permanente qui plane chez ce cinéaste qui a le souci constant de la rythmique. » - Thierry Nouel

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« Ma passion pour le cinéma est le fruit d’une amitié : celle du grand cinéaste et photographe hollandais Johan van der Keuken. » – Serge Meurant

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On 19 February, Quatre nuits d’un rêveur (1971) by Robert Bresson will be re-released in French theatres in a 4K restoration by @carlottafilms.bsky.social.

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ESTARÉ ALLÍ

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Happy Valentine’s Day! 💌

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For its 2025 edition, the Spanish Punto de Vista film festival presents The Word as Archipelago, the first international retrospective of Dutch filmmaker Frans van de Staak, featuring 11 of his 25 films and the publication of the first monograph on his cinema.

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“Voor mij komt die materiële kant van de film op de eerste plaats: een lichtstraal op het scherm. En wat er overgedragen wordt in dat bombardement van licht op een scherm is altijd fictie.” – Johan van der Keuken

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“For me that material aspect of film comes first: a beam of light onto the screen. And what is communicated in that bombardment of light onto a screen is always fiction.” – Johan van der Keuken

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sabzian.be/news/new-boo... Such a great list of new books on the cinema - "The Rebirth of Suspense: Slowness and Atmosphere in Cinema" and "When the Eye Trembles: The Cinema of Paolo Gioli" look particularly great.

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"It also includes interviews with Cordeiro and Reis conducted throughout the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s, which map the filmmakers’ conception of art, film, and their own practice." sabzian.be/publication/...

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“Trouble in Paradise is a crook film – and not only because it’s about crooks. It reveals imposture to be the essence of cinema.” – Frieda Grafe

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“I refuse to create mythological characters. That is my obsession. That is my artistic stance. That is where I will, as they say, rise or fall. ” – Kathleen Collins

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“Writing about Ophüls or Ozu on a corner of the kitchen table... surrounded by the smell of everyday life. Cooking, “making food” – thus protecting herself from the torment of writing.” - Eric de Kuyper on the writings of Frieda Grafe

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“A strange thing occurs. The world becomes transposed, intensified, electrified. We see it sharper than before.” - Jonas Mekas on Andy Warhol’s Sleep

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David Lynch’s original hand-drawn map of ‘Twin Peaks’

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Sabzian bringing some well needed Chomón to the blue sky. 💙

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Hello Bluesky!

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“It seems that, while all these others are to be paid for their part in a show that could not have taken place without me, nonetheless, I, the artist, am not to be paid.” – Hollis Frampton

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“Cinema is important to me. It’s like a prism. A good film... is part of my life. With every good film I see, I feel reborn. It feels as if I made it myself, as if it were my creation.” Hossein Sabzian

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“Cinephilia isn’t the love for old films; it’s the love for these singular inventions that wreak havoc in our forms of perceptions and in the tenor of our emotions.” – Jacques Rancière

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Lista de publicações sobre cinema da Sabzian.

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“[W]e tried to take reality and create another reality – a complex one. It’s taking the real and adding what we feel, which has nothing to do with neorealism. Cinema is this “giving something”. To give to it what makes us live.” – Margarida Cordeiro

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ICYMI: our latest New Book Releases, our seasonal roundup of recently published and forthcoming film publications. → sabzian.be/news/new-book-releases-winter-2025

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Courtisane and Sabzian proudly present a new publication dedicated to the cinema of Portuguese filmmakers António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro! → sabzian.be/publication/in-the-midst-of-the-end-of-the-world-ant%C3%B3nio-reis-and-margarida-cordeiro

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📚 Just published: Sabzian’s New Book Releases / Winter 2025! Our seasonal roundup of recently published and forthcoming film publications, compiled by Tillo Huygelen.

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David Lynch (1946-2025) 🌹

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In preparation for her films, Ulrike Ottinger produces thick books, in which visual and literary snippets are collected in a cut-and-mix collage technique. In the context of the exhibition at @cinematek.bsky.social, Sabzian is publishing a selection of pages for her latest film Paris Calligrammes.

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“We see these gestures, but they are not ours to keep.” Oscar Pedersen on the many flowers that bloom and wither in the films of John Ford

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An (almost) complete retrospective of Ulrike Ottinger at Brussels' @cinematek.bsky.social, in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Belgium and @sabzian.bsky.social!

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The Belgian documentary filmmaker, editor and lecturer Bram Van Paesschen unexpectedly passed away on Friday 10 January in Brussels, at the age of 45.

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"Today the purely visual – or rather the purely sensory image and sound – is still the nucleus it all revolves around." sabzian.be/text/photogr...

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I've been thinking a lot today about Nicole Brenez's State of Cinema 2021: Projections. Provisionals. Provisions. Essential reading. sabzian.be/text/state-o...

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Everything Nicole Brenez writes is so perfect and beautiful sabzian.be/text/women-i...

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"If I film a suicide attempt, and people tell me the actor slitting his throat has put in a good performance and I reply that it wasn’t fiction, the cinematic edifice falls, dissolves." – Sergei Loznitsa, ‘A Lesson in Cinema’ sabzian.be/text/a-lesso...

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(Via @filmesraros.bsky.social , no X, @cinemasraros). sabzian.be/text/state-o...

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“The verisimilitude of [Godard's] art does not rest on faithful imitation of reality but manifests itself in the recognition of its fictional character.” New Frieda Grafe translation: ‘Vivre sa vie (The Story of Nana S.)’, 1964