March 3, 2007

links for 2007-03-03

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Fireflyfilms: The Apple-Eater

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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).

De Brusselse metro #7 : Anneessens…

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Emich’s tour of the Brussels public transport hotspots stops at my place: Anneessens. Loving the concept. For those interessted you’ll find all info at emich’s place, in Dutch and French.

I don’t think the station has any fans at all, except maybe for the occasional exhibitionist, but he’s probably only there waiting for mich. Anyway, thanks mich for sharing the info, and stories!

I always wondered who this Anneessens fellow was, turns out “the citizens of Brussels have never forgotten to venerate the memory of their fellow-townsman as a martyr for public liberty”. (source: Wikipedia)