CinemaOSMovie · 2000 · 0h 2m

James Ensor in Oostende, ca. 1920

Documentary

In 2000, which was ‘Ensor Year’, the installation artist Guillaume Bijl made a short fictitious found-footage film entitled ‘James Ensor in Oostende ca. 1920’, which shows the painter at this resort with his friends. We see them having a drink, strolling in the arcades of the Thermae Palace and sitting on the beach. Bijl’s meticulous choice of locations, belle époque dress (including bathing costumes) and his cinematographically perfect imitation of the rather jerky black & white images, as well as the patina and the perfectly imitated scratches on the film emulsion, all resulted in a perfect replica: an apparently forgotten roll of film from the days of silent film. Bijl himself classifies this faultless slice of life, one of his rare excursions into film and video, under ‘cultural tourism’, one of the elements of his work in which he popularizes cultural history subjects and reduces them to clichés for the general public.

Directed byGuillaume Bijl

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 2m
Language
NL
Released
June 25, 2000

Featuring

Cast & crew

5 credited
Starring

Xavier Tricot

Sailor

Jos Hofmans

James Ensor

Lieve Lambrecht

Friend of Ensor's

Sylvia Luyckx

Friend of Ensor's

Chris Straetling

Friend of Ensor's

Creative team
Directed by
Guillaume Bijl
Written by
Guillaume Bijl

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