{"id":5469,"date":"2014-03-27T19:55:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T01:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=5469"},"modified":"2025-01-09T23:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T05:01:13","slug":"april-3-sven-augustijnen-spectres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2014\/03\/27\/april-3-sven-augustijnen-spectres\/","title":{"rendered":"April 3 &#8211; Sven Augustijnen: Spectres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thursday, April 3<\/strong>\u00a0|\u00a0<em>Sven Augustijnen in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5391\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5391\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2014\/01\/Spectres_SvenAugustijnen5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5391 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2014\/01\/Spectres_SvenAugustijnen5-1.png\" alt=\"Still from Spectres (2011, Sven Augustijnen). Courtesy of the artist and Auguste Orts. \" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2014\/01\/Spectres_SvenAugustijnen5-1.png 450w, https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2014\/01\/Spectres_SvenAugustijnen5-1-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from Spectres (2011, Sven Augustijnen). Courtesy of the artist and Auguste Orts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Confronting the authorized version of an atrocity committed during the early days of post-colonial African rule,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.janmot.com\/sven_augustijnen\/\">Sven Augustijnen<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Spectres<\/em>\u00a0(2011) focuses a critical eye on the official account of the murder of Patrice Lumumba, the Congo\u2019s first elected Prime Minister. The film begins a half-century later as the filmmaker sets off in the company of an amiable former Belgian civil servant-turned-historian on a journey in which the political soon becomes personal and standard notions of historical evidence begin to veer into Errol Morris terrain.<em>Spectres<\/em>\u00a0vividly demonstrates that reconciliation always begins by uncovering the truth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><em>2011, Belgium, HDCAM, 104 minutes + discussion<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sven Augustijnen (b. 1970, Mechelen, Belgium) studied at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/antwerpacademy.be\/\">Royal Academy of Fine Arts<\/a>\u00a0in Antwerp, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sintlukas.be\/cms\/\">Hoger Sint-Lukas Instituut<\/a>\u00a0in Brussels, and at the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.janvaneyck.nl\/\">Jan van Eyck Academy<\/a>\u00a0in Maastricht. His work concentrates mainly on the tradition of portraiture and the porous boundaries between fiction and reality, using a hybrid of genres and techniques to disorienting effect. His films have been included in exhibitions and festivals in Athens, Basel, Fribourg, San Sebasti\u00e1n, Siegen, Rotterdam, Tunis, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, and Vilnius, among others. In 2011 he received the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.evensfoundation.be\/en\/prizes\/visual-arts\/2011\">Evens Prize for Visual Arts<\/a>. Augustijnen lives and works in Brussels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, April 3\u00a0|\u00a0Sven Augustijnen in person! Confronting the authorized version of an atrocity committed during the early days of post-colonial African rule,\u00a0Sven Augustijnen\u2019s\u00a0Spectres\u00a0(2011) focuses a critical eye on the official account of the murder of Patrice Lumumba, the Congo\u2019s first elected Prime Minister. 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