Mad in Belgium
movie
View on VideBits →A cinematographic “cadavre exquis”, whose entrails reveal the odd nature of a (un)certain Belgian cinema. Authors, directors, actors who have proved that imposture could be an act of creation. Convinced that any so-called “new” cinematographic production was in fact a rehash of what had already been made, these pirates of images snuck as forgers, liars, tricksters, usurpers, … Outlaws of the cinema who falsified its form. From the filmed imposture of Man Bites Dog to Jan Bucquoy’s fabulist biopic, everything participates in the dynamiting of institutional language through simulacrum and absurdity. This free journey in the “cine-belgitude” has for vocation to approach these marvellous eccentrics followers of a overexcited and stripping situationism.
Cast & crew
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · Stéphane Aubier · Xavier Seron · Jan Bucquoy · Yves Montmayeur · Noël Godin · Bouli Lanners · Vincent Patar · Olivier Smolders · Benoît Poelvoorde · Fabrice Du Welz