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ONLINEROUGE
Mieke Daneels, Belgium
78′
When the umbilical cord is cut between Rouge and her child, she struggles with an empty gut feeling, loneliness that triggers and anxious tension. Rouge conducts an inner dialogue with Mieke Moes, the other Rouge in her head. She helps Rouge through her dark moments and loneliness. Her psychiatrist penetrates her emotional ballast and maybe goes just that little bit too far. Mieke Moes watches over Rouge. Rouge takes matters into her own hands again and gets rid of her blockages through sexual discharge.
Director’s Statement, objective
The viewer becomes a voyeur in the mind of the main character Rouge and her inner voice Mieke Moes, both played by the director Mieke Daneels.
We follow her inner dialogue during loneliness and her struggle with letting in / opening up to her psychiatrist who tries to help her analyse.
The minimalistic narrative style, imagery and free association are the medium here.
Mieke Moes, the character of the inner voice, is portrayed with black and white images that were sourced from the director’s personal film archive and were originally intended for a different project with her ex-partner Kris De Meester. From this same archive she used the pregnancy and foetus footage (real images of her son Napoleon).
These autobiographical images were filtered and edited with sound and music, and supplemented with new recordings of Rouge (iPhone, mostly on a selfie tripod) to create a cinematically voyeuristic print.
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KITE ZO A * Leave the Bones
Kaveh Nabatian, Canada
70′
In 1791, in Haiti, Dutty Boukman presided over a Vodou ritual in Bois-Caïman that led to the creation of the first Black republic. Since then, rituals of transformation and artistic expression have been at the core of a thriving culture as the country faces oppression, poverty, and natural disasters. “Kite Zo A” (Leave the Bones) is a sensorial film about rituals in Haiti, from ancient to modern, made in collaboration with poets, dancers, musicians, fishermen, daredevil rollerbladers, and Vodou priests, set to poetry by Haitian author Wood-Jerry Gabriel.
Director Biography – Kaveh Nabatian
Kaveh is an Iranian-Canadian artist whose evocative filmmaking has brought to life stories from the margins of society and across the world: Cuba, Haiti, Nunavut, India, and beyond. His film work ranges from “A Crack in Everything”, a feature doc about Leonard Cohen, to masterminding the Rotterdam-premiering, experimental, seven-director anthology feature “The Seven Last Words”, to his award-winning feature narrative debut, the Cuba-set and shot “Sin La Habana”.
As a composer and trumpet player, he’s toured the world and released several critically-acclaimed albums with his Juno award-winning band Bell Orchestre.
LITTLE SPARTACUS
Sara Ganem, France
28′
Between Eastern blocks and cherry brandies, I’m sailing around the Danube with Spartacus, my Greek speaking bicycle. But the world is not big enough to drown my pain.
Director Biography – Sara Ganem
After years of cinema and acting studies, Sara Ganem doesn’t find any work. So she takes her camera and travel alone, goes on writing aside the day jobs, and when she gets completely lost, her first movie is finally done.