Five Short Films by Jan Fabre

by Jan Fabre

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The 2001 archive

Belgium

Presentation

"De Schelde (The Scheldt)" (1988, 10') silent.  Fabre's ode to The Scheldt River.

"Tivoli" (1993, 10') silent. Film on the Tivoli Castle near Malines, coloured entirely with blue ball-point ink.

"Prometheus Landschaft" (1988-1995, 9') in German. In a small room coloured in blue ball-point ink, five actors perform their own version of Aeschylus' Prometheus.

"Lichaampje, lichaampje aan de wand" (My body, nice body, tell me) (1997, 6'). A dramatic monlogue on the relationship between a male dancer and a female photographer.

"Een ontmoeting/Vstrecha (A meeting) Jan Fabre and Ilya Kabakov" (1998, 35'). Two "artists" meet in a cellar and on the roof of a skyscraper in Manhattan.

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