Balthasar

2013
Elevage de poussière / Dust Breeding

Elevage de poussière / Dust Breeding

What is the value of images as objective testimonies of a conflict? In her new work, Sarah Vanagt turns her attention to an important chapter in recent European history: the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Élevage de poussière / Dust Breeding draws its source material from the accounts of expert witnesses, as well as from the multitude of documents (photos and videos) derived from the still ongoing trial of Radovan Karadzic. In parallel, the filmmaker carries out a series of pencil rubbings inside the tribunal’s courtroom: the movement of her hand and the imprints that are revealed by the pencil onto the paper, show us a landscape of details that were previously imperceptible. This exploration questions the facts, the material proofs of these facts, the images representing those facts, as well as the interpretation of those very images.
Credits

47' / video / 16:9 / 2013

English spoken, with English, French and Dutch subtitles

Editing: Effi Weiss

Sound editing: Maxime Coton

Sound mix: Rémy Gérard

End credits: Amir Borenstein

Colour correction: Miléna Trivier

Additional sound recording: Justin Bennett

Translations and subtitles: Bob Vandenbroele

Producer: Sarah Vanagt (Balthasar)

Co-producer: Cyril Bibas (CVB)

Postproduction manager: Amir Borenstein

Technical assistance: Bram Walraet

Production assistant: Olivier Burlet (CVB)

Supported by

Flanders Audiovisual Fund - VAF

Centre du Cinéma de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie - VGC

Coproducers/Partners

Centre Vidéo de Bruxelles (CVB) - Michel Steyeart

Argos, Centre for art and media, Brussels

Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels

Het Vlaams-Nederlands Huis deBuren, Brussels

Wiels, Brussels

Expo & Screenings

Oktobarski Salon, Belgrade 2014

Elles Tournent, Bruxelles 2014

Zinebi, Bilbao 2014

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Madrid/Berlin, Gaité Lyrique Paris 2014

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Madrid/Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin 2014

Tartu World Film Festival, Estonia, 2014-05-23Courtisane 2014

Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival BIEFF 2014

Courtisane, Ghent 2014

Art of Real, Lincoln Center, New York 2014

Kasseler Dokfest, Kassel 2013

MAGIC CINEMA BOBIGNY / FESTIVAL BANDE(S) A PART, Bobigny 2014

EMAF, Osnabruck 2014

Déplier l'histoire, Iselp, Brussels, 2014

IDFA Amsterdam 2013

VIennale, Vienna 2013

Doclisboa 2013

EMAF 2013

Soma Brussels 2013

Festival dei Popoli, Florence 2013

VIdeoEx 2013

Arenberg cinema 2013

FID MARSEILLE 2013

Underdox 2013

Le petitciné, Brussels 2013

Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels 2013

Archaeology of Body/ Anthropology of Violence, group exhibtion, Duplex Gallery, Sarajevo, November 2012 (working version of the film)