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Carnations

Martijn Van de Wiele, Belgium, 2021, 16’

An artificial summer rules the greenhouse. Workers tend to carnations. In a multitude of splendid colours, they grow towards the sun until they’re ready to fulfill their cut-flower destiny. Carnations is an audiovisual meditation on movements within a carnation nursery close to filmmaker Martijn van de Wiele’s home.

Bio Martijn Van de Wiele

Martijn Van de Wiele is a Belgian filmmaker. He graduated from KASK School of Arts in 2021 with the short film Carnations. Prior to that, he made The Afterlife of Fatherbird. 

Carnations (Martijn Van de Wiele, 2021)
Carnations (Martijn Van de Wiele, 2021)
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The Returning Flower

Martijn Van de Wiele’s Carnations

Boet Meijers
16.11.2024

There is a certain solemnity in this portrayal of nature: as a camera operator, Van de Wiele gets down on his knees in some of the images, filming the plants from below and letting their crowns stand out against a bright blue sky to which they stretch their fingers, as if—if left unpruned—they would continue to grow into eternity, closer and closer to their nourishing sun. A favour is done to the carnations here; framed individually, they are momentarily freed from mass production, a space in which a flower becomes the flower.

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Credits

Camera
Martijn Van de Wiele
Editor
Dieter Diependaele, Hannes Verhoustraete, Jolke Van Aerde, Martijn Van de Wiele
Sound
Michel Coquette
Film school
KASK School of Arts
286
documentary nature

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I Don’t Feel At Home Anywhere Anymore

Viv Li, Belgium, China, 2020, 16’

A wistful but witty account of a trip to Beijing by filmmaker Viv Li, a Chinese art student who has been living abroad for ten years. Her stay with her family mercilessly exposes how uprooted she has become by her life abroad.

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Snow Edge

Juan Francisco Rodríguez, Colombia, 2021, 15’

The thaw of the so-called eternal snow of Páramo, a neotropical alpine ecosystem in the high Andes, exposes a layer of meaning about the origins and survival of the landscape.

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My Uncle Tudor

Olga Lucovnicova, Belgium, Portugal, Hungary, Moldova, 2020, 20’

After twenty years of silence, filmmaker Olga Lucovnicova returns to her great-grandparents’ home, where she endured traumatic experiences that left a lasting impression on her memory.

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Herman@s (Les Adelphes)

Hélène Alix Mourrier, France, 2021, 29’

Mexico, October 2011. A mysterious dream gives birth to Cuco, a transgender latex pirate activist. This essayistic film follows their quest to create more recognition for the queer community.

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Gestes du repas

Luc de Heusch, Belgium, 1958, 23’

This satirical ethnographic film shows eating Belgians in diverse contexts. Dinner scenes at weddings, funerals, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve portray a country: loneliness and community alternate, just as wealth and poverty.

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The Jungle Knows You Better Than You Do

Juanita Onzaga, Belgium, Colombia, 2017, 20’

Two siblings roam the mystical landscapes of Colombia, searching for their dead father's spirit. Their journey takes them from the city of Bogotá to the jungle, through realms of thought and deep into their haunted dreams.

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0.2 Milligrams of Gold

Diego Quinderé de Carvalho, Belgium, Hungary, Portugal, 2021, 24’

Eight thousand five hundred kilometres lie between the Amazon and the Ardennes. In his home country of Brazil, filmmaker Diego looks at the inaccessible forest from the outside. Its Belgian counterpiece, however, is easier to explore.

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Noonlight

Kayt Schneider, Belgium, 1991, 10’

Passing through the Noon Market in Brussels, filmmaker Kayt Schneider captures the peaceful, poetic coexistence of people and cultures.

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