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| Timetable :: Programme :: Focus on Ben van Lieshout |
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Focus on Ben van Lieshout
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| Sunday 16th | 11.30am | Kino Cinema | |
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We celebrate the work of Ben van Lieshout in this tribute programme, and warmly welcome him to the festival to introduce these outstanding films. |
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Ben van Lieshout is an award-winning director, screenwriter and producer who lectures at the Utrecht School of the Arts in the Netherlands. Amongst his canon of work, three arresting and resonant short documentaries stand out - The Zone (De Zone, 1999), Night At The Mall (Winkelhart, 2001) and Allotment (Lapje Grond, 2003); which have all screened in competition in Cork and other international festivals, garnering many honours and awards. In 2004, he directed a documentary, Petersburg Places And Paintings, on the Russian artist Tatyana Yassievich - |
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| I don't paint the people themselves. Rather, I paint the public places through which they move en masse, bearing their emotions and cares with them. Stations, parks, cafes, waiting rooms. | |
| This aesthetic could well be attributed to the powerful cinematic poetry of The Zone and Night At The Mall - where geographic space speaks for absent humanity. In Allotment, poetry and people come together in celebration of space. | |
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| The Zone 1999 | 18mins | 35mm | Colour | Subtitled The Zone is an austerely visual film that throws a nerve wracking and revealing light on a typically Dutch phenomenon, de afwerplek, roughly translatable as 'come place' -the place where prostitutes meet their clients. |
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Night At The Mall |
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| The Allotment 2003 | 24mins | 35mm | Colour | Subtitled An affectionate portrait of a seemingly insignificant phenomenon: the allotment garden. Gardeners and poets take to the stage in a visual poetic film. |
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