Herman Asselberghs
Herman ASSELBERGHS (1962, Belgium) is an artist, cultural philosopher and media critic. He lives and works in Brussels. His installations and videos have been shown worldwide at the Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, documenta X, Deitch Projects, CGAC, Witte de With, Van Abbemuseum, IFFR and Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin. Asselberghs has published extensively on film and visual culture and teaches at the film department of Sint-Lukas in Brussels.
Filmography
(all short, selection) a.m./p.m. (2004), Proof of Life (2005), Inner & Outer Worlds (2005), Capsular (2006), Repérage (2006), Futur antérieur/Disciples of the Heinous Path – Part 1: The Pain of Everyone (2007), Altogether (2008), Black Box (2009), Dear Steve (2010), After Empire (2011), P.S. (2011, co-dir), Speech Act (2012), After Empire (2013, co-dir), this was before (2014), For Now (2017), Watching Words Becoming a Film (TXT.FLM #3) (2017), Notes for a Letter to Angelina Jolie (2018), Portal (School Work, Vol.1), Now (After Empire Remix) (2021)
Herman Asselberghs at IFFR
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Watching Words Becoming a Film (TXT.FLM #3)
Only words on screen: Asselberghs bridges political, avant-garde cinema and the ubiquitous telephone text message.
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Capsular
A quest to the border of the personification of Fortress Europe: the enclave of Ceuta in Morocco.
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Altogether
The future is dark, which is on the whole the best thing the future can be, I think. – Herman Asselberghs
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Futur anterieur (aka Disciples of the Heinous Path – Part 1: The Pain of Everyone)
An anti-retinal meditation on life and death. The avant noise-quartet Spasm play an intense set, as usual in pitch dark. After the musical climax,
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a.m./p.m.
The camera feels its way excruciatingly slowly through photos of buildings. Coming to terms with the impressions made on the maker during a stay in
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Speech Act
A middle-aged man reflects on Avatar, the most expensive and highest-grossing film ever. His soliloquy however turns into a meditation on life at l
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After Empire
Where were you on the Fifteenth February Day of the Year Three of the New Time? That Saturday, history happened. History happened and we forgot abo
