‘Opening: Iceberg’

He said to these worker comrades that "if they want true films about their condition they must make the effort to make them themselves, because true films about penguins will only be convincing the day a penguin learns how to use a camera." 
"The penguins have seized power" by Chris MARKER, article published in Libération on 11 February 2004

Chris Marker never ceased exploring devices for recording and broadcasting images, from video installations to Second Life.  Whether working with 16mm or mapping an "immemory", he was forever searching, experimenting, questioning his tools, even engaging in dialogue with them in the hope of "controlling a little more of this memory" that is always moving and inherently unstable. On repeated occasions, he urged his audiences to take control of these tools.
This project originated in the question: what did Chris Marker make us do and what is he making us do?  

On the fringes of the exhibition Chris Marker Memories of the Future at BOZAR, Iceberg is a workshop, a workspace, a temporary meeting place bringing together digital and analogue tools, texts, devices and knowledge. 

 

Open to the public by reservation, this meeting place will become an exhibition space, before disappearing. In the meantime it will have been used by various groups, coming from art colleges, secondary schools and other bodies to engage in conversation with a body of work, that of Chris Marker, and with memories, technical resources and places, here, in the present, in Brussels, in Belgium.
 

For more information or to book a place at one or more of the workshops, please email us at:  repertoires.animes@gmail.com

Iceberg was produced by the ARG or Animation Research Group (Alexander Schellow, Milena Desse, Myriam Raccah, Olivia Molnar, Jules Urban, Xavier Gorgol, Anton Henne, Nicolas Wouters, Damien Safie) in cooperation with Bozar Cinema (Juliette Duret, Xavier García Bardón, Zoi Fulidu), at the initiative of Laurence Rassel (ERG).

With the participation of Agnès de Cayeux, Lucile Desamory, Gustave Fundi Mwamba, Glodie Mubikay Kabemba, Étienne Sandrin, Marie Voignier, and others.

Opening: Friday 19 October 2018 from 7 pm to 10 pm.
Closing: Friday 14 December 2018.