Texts

Every Wednesday, Sabzian publishes texts on cinema in Dutch, English or French.

Do You Remember Future?
Bojan Vasić, 2015
ARTICLE
EN
Partners in Crime

Interview with Dion Beebe, cinematographer of Miami Vice

Jay Holben, 2006
CONVERSATION
EN
Een delirante apologie voor het monogame huwelijk

Veit Harlans Opfergang

Frank Vande Veire, 2021
ARTICLE
NL
The Western
Dirk Lauwaert, 2001
ARTICLE
EN
Au hasard Balthazar van Robert Bresson
Eric de Kuyper, 1967
ARTICLE
NL
Dune: The Designer’s Craft
Anton Jäger, 2021
ARTICLE
Dune: een designersklusje
Anton Jäger, 2021
ARTICLE
Bijleren

Omtrent Juste un mouvement

Herman Asselberghs, 2021
ARTICLE
NL
Two or Three Things I Know About Harun Farocki
Nora M. Alter, 2015
ARTICLE
EN
In de donkere kamer komt niets aan het licht

Gedachten bij Harun Farocki’s Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges

Hannes Verhoustraete, 2021
ARTICLE
NL
Een zee aan werelden

Interview met Nina de Vroome over Globes

Gerard-Jan Claes, 2021
CONVERSATION
NL
Leren, ontleren en afleren

Omtrent La chinoise

Herman Asselberghs, 2021
ARTICLE
NL
What’s New in the West?
André Bazin, 1956
ARTICLE
À l’Ouest quoi de nouveau ?
André Bazin, 1956
ARTICLE
Wat valt er te melden over het Westen?
André Bazin, 1956
ARTICLE
Cinema Rediscovered

Notes on Cinema Ritrovato 2021

Steven Jacobs, 2021
ARTICLE
Cinema herontdekt

Notities bij Cinema Ritrovato 2021

Steven Jacobs, 2021
ARTICLE
Werkelijkheidswerk

Aantekeningen over Witold Gombrowicz en de films van Jan Decorte

Timeau De Keyser, Nina de Vroome, 2021
ARTICLE
NL
Sunday in Peking

A Model Film 

André Bazin, 1957
ARTICLE
Dimanche à Pékin

Een modelfilm

André Bazin, 1957
ARTICLE
Dimanche à Pékin

Un film modèle

André Bazin, 1957
ARTICLE
The Animator as Avatar
Edwin Carels, 2008
ARTICLE
De animator als avatar
Edwin Carels, 2008
ARTICLE
Some Other Time
Bill Horrigan, 2007
ARTICLE
Een andere keer
Bill Horrigan, 2007
ARTICLE
Poetry of the Real
Amina Hassan, 2007
ARTICLE
EN
Making Movies, Marking Time
Diana Digges, 1998
CONVERSATION
EN
“My mission: to depict Egypt. And my request: democracy.”

A Conversation with Atteyat Al-Abnoudy

Samar Salman, 1991
CONVERSATION
EN
Atteyat – the Egyptian

A Conversation with Atteyat Al-Abnoudy

Johanni Larjanko, Riitta Santala, 1991
CONVERSATION
EN
“The only way for me as a filmmaker to express my feelings for them was to make a film”

A Conversation with Atteyat Al-Abnoudy

J.-F. Camus, 1973
CONVERSATION
EN
Everyone Wears a Mask

A Conversation with Atteyat Al-Abnoudy

Jim Pines, 1973
CONVERSATION
EN
Propos de Georges Rouquier autour de Farrebique
François Porcile, 2008
CONVERSATION
L’accueil de Farrebique

Reflets d’une polémique

François Porcile, 2008
ARTICLE
One Spectator Among Others: Rebecca Jane Arthur
Herman Asselberghs, Gerard-Jan Claes, Rebecca Jane Arthur, 2021
CONVERSATION
Een kijker onder de anderen: Rebecca Jane Arthur
Herman Asselberghs, Gerard-Jan Claes, Rebecca Jane Arthur, 2021
CONVERSATION
Une collection particulière

In flagrante delicto

Ive Verdoodt, 2021
ARTICLE
NL
Interview with Pedro Costa
Ruben Desiere, 2014
CONVERSATION
Interview met Pedro Costa
Ruben Desiere, 2014
CONVERSATION
Naked Lunch

De taal is een parasiet

Bert Lesaffer, Dries Roelandts, 2021
ARTICLE
NL
Geen dag zonder stille film, geen stille film zonder muziek
Jean-Luc Plouvier, 2020
ARTICLE
Pas un seul jour sans cinéma muet, et pas un seul muet sans musique
Jean-Luc Plouvier, 2020
ARTICLE
An Interview: Kathleen Collins
Oliver Franklin, 1981
CONVERSATION
EN
A Commitment to Writing

A Conversation with Kathleen Collins Prettyman

David Nicholson, 1986
CONVERSATION
EN
“I refuse to create mythological characters”
Kathleen Collins, 1984
ARTICLE
EN
A Place in Time and Killer of Sheep: Two Radical Definitions of Adventure Minus Women
Kathleen Collins, 1977
ARTICLE
EN
Stand van zaken
Sabzian, 2021
ARTICLE
NL
An Encounter with the Doyenne of Tunisian Film, Selma Baccar
Stefanie Van de Peer, 2010
CONVERSATION
EN
“I made Fatma 75 because, despite everything, women are still not equal to men.”

Interview with Selma Baccar

Farida Ayari, Férid Boughedir, Guy Hennebelle, 1981
CONVERSATION
EN
An Uncompromising View

Interview with Selma Baccar

Wassyla Tamzali, 1979
CONVERSATION
EN
“The men in the street were a little amused to see a woman giving orders”

Interview with Selma Baccar

Magda Wassef, 1978
CONVERSATION
EN
For the Self-Expression of the Arab Woman
Selma Baccar, Heiny Srour, Magda Wassef, 1978
MANIFESTO
EN
“Robbery with mutual consent”

Interview with Jan Decorte

Dirk Lauwaert, 1983
CONVERSATION
“Roof met wederzijdse toestemming”

Interview met Jan Decorte

Dirk Lauwaert, 1983
CONVERSATION
Pierre
Dirk Lauwaert, 1976
ARTICLE
Pierre EN
Pierre
Dirk Lauwaert, 1976
ARTICLE
NL Pierre
Hedda Gabler
Dirk Lauwaert, 1979
ARTICLE
Adolescentie als stilleven
Dirk Lauwaert, 1976
ARTICLE
NL
Le chantier des gosses
Ruben Demasure, 2021
ARTICLE
NL
Ce n’est pas … une blague !
Paul De Swaef, 1956
CONVERSATION
FR
De odyssee van een film
Marcelle Dumont, 1970
ARTICLE
L’odyssée d’un film
Marcelle Dumont, 1970
ARTICLE
“My loyalty is always with the oppressed. Whether in Africa, the Middle East or Vietnam”
Olivier Hadouchi, 2020
CONVERSATION
EN
Dhofar for Memory
Heiny Srour, 2008
ARTICLE
EN
Between Three Stools
Heiny Srour, 1998
ARTICLE
EN
The Other Half
Manny Shirazi, 1985
ARTICLE
EN
Before the Wolves
John Akomfrah, 1983
ARTICLE
EN
“I hope and pray for a massive influx of women into all fields of the film industry”
Magda Wassef, 1978
ARTICLE
EN
Woman, Arab and... Filmmaker
Heiny Srour, 1976
ARTICLE
EN
The Hour of Liberation
Guy Hennebelle, Monique Martineau Hennebelle, 1974
CONVERSATION
EN
Reality Would Have to Begin
Harun Farocki, 1988
ARTICLE
De werkelijkheid zou moeten beginnen
Harun Farocki, 1988
ARTICLE
Labour and its Memory

Harun Farocki in Conversation with Marco Scotini

Marco Scotini, 2010
CONVERSATION
EN
Making the World Superfluous

An Interview with Harun Farocki

Thomas Elsaesser, 1993
CONVERSATION
EN
Cinema en surrealisme in België
Olivier Smolders, 1991
ARTICLE
Cinéma et surréalisme en Belgique
Olivier Smolders, 1991
ARTICLE
De straat
Henri Storck, 1951
ARTICLE
NL La rue
La rue
Henri Storck, 1951
ARTICLE
Fantômas I
Ernst Moerman, 1933
ARTICLE
FR
Documenting and Telling the Torments of the World

Interview with Jocelyne Saab

Olivier Hadouchi, 2014
CONVERSATION
EN
“It’s up to women to lift the veil”

Interview with Jocelyne Saab

Maryse Léon, Magda Wassef, 1978
CONVERSATION
EN
Letter from Algiers to a Friend from Beirut
Wassyla Tamzali, 2014
CORRESPONDENCE
EN
Conversations with Etel Adnan and Jocelyne Saab
Olivier Hadouchi, 2014
CONVERSATION
EN
For Jocelyne
Etel Adnan, 2014
ARTICLE
EN
“It’s no longer a matter of taking a position”

Interview with Jocelyne Saab

Sylvie Dallet, 1983
CONVERSATION
EN
“The public needs fiction, and several of us are moving in that direction”

Interview with Jocelyne Saab

Gaston Haustrate, Corinne McMullin, 1982
CONVERSATION
EN
A Woman, a Film, a Different Gaze
Josie Fanon, 1977
ARTICLE
EN
Forbidden Gaze, Severed Sound
Assia Djebar, 1979
ARTICLE
EN
Extract from Une éducation algérienne
Wassyla Tamzali, 2007
ARTICLE
EN
“I was looking for a musical language”

Two interviews with Assia Djebar

Maryse Léon, Monique Martineau Hennebelle, 1979, 1981
ARTICLE
EN
A Woman’s Gaze
Assia Djebar, 1989
ARTICLE
EN
The Singing of Oblivion
Assia Djebar, 1982
ARTICLE
EN
The Zerda or the Maghreb in the 1930s
Assia Djebar, Malek Alloula, 1979
ARTICLE
EN
A First Look
Assia Djebar, Wassyla Tamzali, 1978
ARTICLE
EN
You’ve Got Mail

De romance van de Derde Weg 

Meagan Day, 2020
ARTICLE
NL
From Reality to Fiction – From Poverty to Expression
Michel Khleifi, 1997
ARTICLE
De la réalité à la fiction – de la pauvreté à l’expression
Michel Khleifi, 1997
ARTICLE
Excerpts from a conversation on Fertile Memory
Jacqueline Aubenas, Michel Khleifi, Serge Meurant, Johan van der Keuken, 1982
CONVERSATION
Fragments d’une discussion autour La mémoire fertile
Jacqueline Aubenas, Michel Khleifi, Serge Meurant, Johan van der Keuken, 1982
CONVERSATION
Interview with Michel Khleifi on Fertile Memory
Catherine Arnaud, Mouloud Mimoun, 1981
CONVERSATION
Entretien avec Michel Khleifi sur La mémoire fertile
Catherine Arnaud, Mouloud Mimoun, 1981
CONVERSATION

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