[2025] Brussels

On the occasion of a partial retrospective of Jocelyne Saab’s films at Le Nova cinema in Brussels, Braquage and the Association Jocelyne Saab teamed up with Peliskan to organize a film intervention workshop (peeling, scratching and drawing on film). Editing of 16mm silent film positives and negatives, stripping, drawing and scratching on film, and pre-screening of a program of film courses at Bosch.

The results of these workshops were digitized by Peliskan and screened at Bosch in 16mm, before a 16mm screening of films from the Braquage collection:

PEHLIVAN, 13 min, 1964

Directed by Maurice Pialat – Turkey – 16 mm – Black & White

The Kırkpınar tournament has been held annually in the city of Edirne since the 14th century. Wrestlers fight bare-chested, wearing only oiled cowhide breeches (Kispet) pulled tight below the knees, and cover themselves from head to toe in olive oil. They must reverse their opponent by passing their hand under his belt, then hold him upside down with his legs in the air, vertically, for a few seconds.

SOUS LES DÉCOMBRES, 40 min, 1983

Directed by Jean Khalil Chamoun – France/Lebanon – 16 mm – Black & White

Beirut 1982: 79 days of siege. By the Vietnam veterans’ own admission, the violence was unprecedented. For us, this film will soon no longer represent a particular war, the Lebanese war of summer 1982, but rather all wars, denounced here with rare force and anger. The subject of this film is no longer Lebanon; it is the country under attack, the country occupied, the country cut into several parts in the name of a division between fractions and between armies. And many wars could look like this one…