Moving Along

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FRI 18.09 - BLOCK 4 SAT 19.09 - BLOCK 2 + BLOCK 3 SUN 20.09 - BLOCK 1 + BLOCK 5 + BLOCK 2 + BLOCK 3 WED 23.09 - BLOCK 4 + BLOCK 1 + BLOCK 5 + BLOCK 2 + masterclass w/ SoundImageCulture (SIC) Deborah Stratman — The Stumble as a Map >> THU 24.09 - BLOCK 3 + BLOCK 4 + BLOCK 2 + BLOCK 5 + BLOCK 1 FRI 25.09 - BLOCK 2 + BLOCK 3 + BLOCK 4 + screening + aftertalk Kumail Syed — Les enfants ont des oreilles >> SAT 26.09 - BLOCK 1 + BLOCK 5

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This fall, the Beursschouwburg film programme looks at the ways cars, trains, metros and other forms of transportation have transformed our daily lives and reshaped the environments around us. From the arrival of the automobile as a mass consumer product to the construction of motorways, parking lots and vast infrastructures designed to keep us moving, transportation has profoundly altered the scale, rhythm and appearance of our cities.

The films in the programme observe these changes from different perspectives. They look at traffic and congestion, but also at labour, leisure, architecture, and the simple act of walking. They ask who our cities are designed for, who gets to move freely, and what happens to the people and places that get in the way.

The programme also understands mobility in its broader social sense: as social mobility, moving between neighbourhoods, milieus and social classes, while encountering, negotiating and acknowledging the social and symbolic boundaries that surround us.

Sometimes critical, sometimes playful or absurd, these films invite us to look again at the seemingly ordinary systems that organise how we move through the world.

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1 — The BLVD - Deborah Stratman, 1999, 64min An experimental documentary about the street drag racing scene on Chicago’s near West Side. This is a rambling, textured film about obsession. It is about the mythos of speed for its own sake, and it is about waiting. While waiting, The BLVD exposes community, inner-city landscapes and nomadic experiences of place. The film treats storytelling as a living medium for determining history. And it commands respect for those who transform cars, or anything else, through passion.

2 — NO ICE + De Straat + Rijksweg N1 Three films that look at the ways architecture and infrastructure shape everyday life. Total duration: 100 min

With no ice, artist duo Denicolai & Provoost tackle the regulation of public space in the style of Jacques Tati. De Straat & Rijksweg N1 on the other hand were made by Jef Cornelis in collaboration with architecture critic Geert Bekaert, examining architecture and urban planning not simply as matters of design, but as forces that organise how we inhabit and move through the city and public space.

NO ICE - Denicolai & Provoost, 2002 Your favourite Brussels artist duo tackle the regulation of public space by having eight ice cream vans perform a guerillia ballet at a strategic roundabout (that is currently and…