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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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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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Devotion

Cynthia Madansky, Turkey, 2003, 34’

A sparing and minimal travelogue of Istanbul. A foreigner meditates on the unraveling of a relationship while moving from hotel room to hotel room. In a city simultaneously devoted to Islam and secular nationalism, she finds refuge in the frailty and severity of rituals.

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Vanessa del Campo, Belgium, 2019, 20’

Oman’s vast plains look so much like Mars that they are used as a training ground for astronauts. Two local girls gaze at the starry sky like curious scientists while the astronauts philosophise about living on the Red Planet.

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Enzo Smits, Belgium, 2014, 19’

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Oksana Luyssen, Ysé Auguste-Dormeuil, Belgium, 2024, 15’

Obtaining official documents is a symbol of coveted freedom and security for migrants. But how do you navigate the administrative labyrinth? This film explores the relationship between identity, race, and European bureaucracy.

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The Stopover

Collectif Faire-part, Belgium, DR Congo, 2022, 14’

Filmmakers Paul Shemisi and Nizar Saleh embark on a journey from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Germany to screen their latest film. However, during a layover in Angola, their trip takes a harrowing turn when airport authorities question the authenticity of their documents.

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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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On Its Way Down

Sebastian Schaevers, Belgium, 2022, 22’

Zinal, a small town in the Swiss Alps, looks straight up toward the melting glaciers of the Couronne Impériale. The townspeople struggle with nihilistic indifference. When the threat is so immediate, and their powerlessness so great, can their response be anything other than cynicism? Then a paraglider falls mysteriously from the sky, and Zinal starts to change.

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