From July 6 to 12, we expect you back in De Cinema in Antwerp for ZOMERFILMCOLLEGE! For seven days we will immerse ourselves in two film historical themes, through fifteen or so lectures by world-renowned critics and academics, Q&As with filmmakers and some twenty screenings of both original 35mm copies and recent digital restorations.
ZOMERFILMCOLLEGE brings film lovers in touch with renowned film specialists from Belgium and abroad, but also with films from the collection of CINEMATEK and other film archives, which are seldom or never shown on the big screen.
Click here for a for the full programme or one of the two focuses. There are also separate tickets for film screenings available here.
The Many Worlds of Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray (1921-92) ranks undoubtedly among the finest auteurs of the second half of the twentieth century. Deeply involved in every aspect of filmmaking, he explored themes of class, gender, modernity, and tradition across genres, each time inspired by music, visual arts, literature, folklore and philosophy. Rooted in Bengal’s cultural, historical, and regional realities, his work reveals many worlds—intimate, complex, and universally resonant.
This program strand aims to offer a chronological overview of Ray’s career, focussing on several key themes along the way, from his approach to historicism and his bond with local and international literature to his take on female protagonists.
Guest speakers for this program strand are Professor Rochona Majumdar (University of Chicago) and Assistant Professor Ritika Kaushik (University of Warwick).
Rites of age: A Personal History of Teen Movies
Film and the modern idea of adolescence saw the light of day roughly at the same time, and have influenced each other ever since. The ‘discovery’ of adolescence in the late 19th century and the ‘invention’ of the teenager in the early 20th century coincided with the formative years of cinema. The idea of youth has been around in film history since at least the jazz age, but the first teen movie boom came in the 1950s, both in Hollywood (e.g. The Wild One) and in art film (e.g. Sommaren med Monika).
This program strand in no way aims to offer a definitive history of teen movies, but rather an idiosyncratic one, which at the same time does try to showcase the diversity (in of tone, time, place, …) and richness of the genre.
Guest speakers for this program strand are film critics Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López; our guest curator was invited in collaboration with Film Secession (Richard Suchenski).
Trailer by Jasper Loos
