BXL Minuit (Brussels Midnight), 1998
BARBARA
Why didn’t you tell me? It’s not difficult, is it? You just say: I can’t see you tonight, because I’m screwing someone else.
Synopsis: After discovering that her boyfriend is cheating on her, Barbara spends the night wandering around Brussels, struggling with flashes of memory. Meanwhile, a pickpocket has found his way into the intimacy of her apartment and wipes out the traces of her broken relationship.
Cast: Natali Broods * Salvador Sanchis * Valentijn Dhaenens * Vanya Wellens.
Year:1998 | Length:16’| format:35mm |
Language:Dutch | Subtitles:Eng & Fr
Screenplay: Dorothée van den Berghe
Director: Dorothée van den Berghe
DOP: Jan Vancaillie
Editor: Erik Lamens
Music: Peter Vermeersch
Production: vzw Kort!
Producer: Kaat Camerlynck
Sound: Olivier Struye
Art director: Gert Stas
Costume designer: Ann Weckx
Make-up: Diana Dreesen
Prizes & Mentions:
*Vallodolid: Special Jury Price at 44° Semana International de Cine de Vallodolid 1999
*Leuven: 3rd Place Audience Price at Leuven Kort 1998
*Brussels: 3rd Place Audience Price at Oh, ce court 1999
*Montecatini: Giovanni Icardo price/Memoria d‘Aqua price at Festical del Cortometraggio de Montecatini 1999
*Torino: 2nd place at 7° Festical Internazionale Cinema 2000
*Valenciennes: Mentioned by the Jury at 10ième FF d’action et d’aventures 1999
Festivals:
*54° festival internazionale del film Locarno 2001
*Clermont-Ferrand: International Shortfilm Festival 2000
*Karlo-Vivary: Ecran Total’99
*Edinburgh: Edinburgh International FF ’99
*Montreal: Festival des films du monde ’99
*Brussels: 26st International Film Festival’99
*Bilbao: International Film Festival of Documentary and Short Film ’99
*Chicago: Women in the director’s chair 2000
*Brussels: Filmmuseum/Nieuwe Belgische Film ’99
*Bradford: National Museum of Photography F&T ’99
*Huesca: Festival de Cine de Huesca ’99
*Valencia: Cinema Jove ’99
*Munich: International FF of München ’99
*Avanca: Avanca 99 ’99
*Figuera da Foz: Festical Internacional de Cinema ’99
*Troia: Festroia ’99
*Genève: Cinema Tout Ecran, Rencontres Inter (September ’99, competition)
*Utrecht: Nederlandse filmdagen (September ’99, Showing)
*Leeds: Festival of Leeds (November ’99, Showing)
*Sienna: 4th International Festiva of Sienna (November ’99, competition)
*Rome: Palazzo (November ’99, retrospective)
*Madrid: 9° Semana de cine experimental (November ’99, competition)
*Leuven: Best of Leuven Kort (November ’99, showing)
*Chicago: Women in the director’s chair (March 2000, competition)
Press:
*De Morgen:
"With her technically simple, austere-poetic films, Dorothée van den Berghe creates the impression that she is trying to capture precisely that fragile, elusive fault line on videotape. (…) Her films, often centered on love, exude a strong social consciousness. Though she also often plucks a streak of poetry from harsh reality. 'I don't feel specifically related to social realism or a movement like Free Cinema,' she says. 'My films might fit into that category, but it still has a lot to do with being involved with the neighborhood you live in. Often it's intuitive. It haunts me as well. (…) I still believe that Dorothée’s BXL Minuit is one of the best short films I have seen at the festivals last year (’99). In comparison to what I see at the Berlinale right now, it is even more precious”.
