Tonight I’ll go check out this movie. I don’t know the full story behind it, but here’s what the site says:
‘The Apple-eater’
Filmperformance of the collective: ‘The new Swallows’
‘This film is dedicated to B., who has been in this country for six years. Since then he has been living as a ‘Mr Nobody’. Without papers, not considered to be working, not considered to exist, and with the shadow of authority looming over him. He has twice almost been sent back to his home country, where values and standards have become inhuman. There was a brief deliverance but it was again brutally taken from him. And yet I don=t know anyone who so avidly does his best to be accepted as a Belgian. During the day he takes one course after another, and every night he cleans away plastic cups, cigarette ends and the stink of beer in order to survive. He told me: sometimes I catch myself staring into the void for hours.’ (ED, 2006)
Tonight, at 18h in Paleis voor Schone Kunsten/Palais des Beaux Arts. (also plays on Sunday, same time, same place, entrance is free)
It’s a FireFlyFilms project (gottalovethename).

