Les Brigittines

Spinach Productions asbl and Les Brigittines have the great pleasure to invite you to the avant-première of HAMSTERs, a film directed by Martine Doyen, and co-produced by Les Brigittines. This one will take place on June 29th at 8.00pm in FLAGEY.

After the terrorist attack at the Jewish Museum in 2014, people in Brussels are plagued with a very peculiar disease — they can’t help dancing in the streets. Modern trauma is dealt in a raw, poetic way in this film, part-documentary on a neighbourhood, part-urban-magical-spell.

Trauma and post-traumatic stress are common concepts nowadays. 
Director Martine Doyen puts a nice spin on them by making an historic and modern film at the same time. In Brussels, witnesses from nearby or afar of the terrorist attack at the Jewish Museum in 2014 are plagued by collective hysteria, dancing frenetically in the streets.
HAMSTERs is also inspired by the 'dancing mania’ which took place in Brussels in 1564.

Doyen’s film spontaneously absorbs chaos and shock, responds to mindless disorder by its own joyfully weird, therapeutic disorder. The 'dancers' disrupt public space the same way terrorists do, maybe in a more disturbing way.  Lo-fi, micro-budgeted, improvised, as raw as a punk song, HAMSTERs is also a documentary on the old, working-class Marolles neighbourhood in Brussels, using non-professional actors and throwing some eccentric inhabitants into the mix. Its title suggests a cold experiment with guinea pigs but the film is sincerely, humanely embedded in its surroundings. 

With the support of FLAGEY and Cinematek.

Next projections:

Thursday June 29th 2017 - 20:00
Wednesday July 12th 2017 - 17:30
Thursday July 13th 2017 - 22:00
Friday July 14th 2017 -  19:45
Saturday July 15th 2017 - 21:30
Wednesday July 19th 2017 - 22:00
Friday July 21th 2017 - 17:30
Tuesday August 1st 2017 - 19:30
Saturday August 19th 2017 - 15:30
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