Professor Vito Adriaensens’s Film Won at the Cadence Video Poetry Festival 2020 Online

By
Nina Mahesh
April 20, 2020

Adjunct Assistant Professor Vito Adriaensens's found-footage ciné roman, Entre Les Images, was shown at the Cadence Video Poetry Festival 2020 where it won in its category, 'Poetry by Video Artists'. The event was organized by Northwest Film Forum in Seattle and held from April 15-19 online. 

Entre Les Images played on Sunday, April 19, at 7:30 pm PST/ 10:30 EST in the "End Times" showcase of the festival. Tickets were available on a sliding pay-what-you-can scale and will give viewers 24 hours of access to the program. 

Entre Les Images is about a young woman who laments the loss of her innocence and mourns her lover as Europe is ravaged by war in the summer of 1914. The film is composed of preserved 35mm nitrate film frames from over 100 silent films, a large number of them irrevocably lost or only partially preserved, with nothing to mark their presence outside of these majestic few frames. Entre Les Images showcases a wide variety of color processes that were used between the 1890s and the 1920s, infusing every moment with the mesmerizing hopes, dreams, and promises of tumultuous times that left their scars on its media, perpetuating life and death between every frame. The film's titular poem was performed by Belgian linguist Kirsten Fivez, and its original musical score was written and performed by American composer and Columbia alumnus Roger Tréfousse

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Vito Adriaensens is a filmmaker, writer, and cinema and performing arts scholar. He has been an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University's School of the Arts Film Department in New York since 2016, and he is currently also a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Research in Cinema and Performing Arts (CiASp) at the Université libre de Bruxelles. Vito holds a PhD from the University of Antwerp, was a visiting scholar at the University of Copenhagen, and has also taught at the VU University in Amsterdam and the School of Arts, University College in Ghent. He also teaches small-gauge filmmaking as an instructor at the cinema-arts non-profit Mono No Aware, and was an executive committee member of Domitor, the International Society for the Study of Early Cinema. 

In 2017, Adriaensens co-authored a book, Screening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema, which is out now and available. He previously hosted the Silent Matinee - a public cinema history series that explored the history of the early cinema through a five-part screening which ran from January 26th - April 6th. His research focuses on the interaction between film, theatre and fine arts, and he has published and presented widely on silent cinema and aesthetics.

Northwest Film Forum incites public dialogue and creative action through collective cinematic experiences. A nonprofit film and arts center located in Seattle, Northwest Film Forum presents hundreds of films, festivals, community events, multidisciplinary performances, and public discussions each year.

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