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Sabzian is an international film journal, hailing from Belgium.
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New Issue on Sabzian: ‘André Bazin, Television Critic’
Compiled and introduced by Tillo Huyghelen, this trilingual issue contains 7 articles by Bazin on the notion of television, as well as an interview with Jean Renoir and Roberto Rossellini.
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Compiled and introduced by Tillo Huyghelen, this trilingual issue contains 7 articles by Bazin on the notion of television, as well as an interview with Jean Renoir and Roberto Rossellini.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
New Issue on Sabzian: ‘André Bazin, Television Critic’
Compiled and introduced by Tillo Huyghelen, this trilingual issue contains 7 articles by Bazin on the notion of television, as well as an interview with Jean Renoir and Roberto Rossellini.
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Compiled and introduced by Tillo Huyghelen, this trilingual issue contains 7 articles by Bazin on the notion of television, as well as an interview with Jean Renoir and Roberto Rossellini.
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State of Cinema 2025, Isabelle Huppert, Karl Kels, Arindam Sen, Jean-Luc Godard: Unmade and Abandoned, First Forum for Film Education, ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/KGotb.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
State of Cinema 2025, Isabelle Huppert, Karl Kels, Arindam Sen, Jean-Luc Godard: Unmade and Abandoned, First Forum for Film Education, ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/KGotb.
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“The magic of cinema is something which leaps out, which isn’t planned: it’s what happens beyond all the work, the materials tools, the script, etc. In my life as an actress, it’s the encounters and surprises which attract, or even enchant, me.”
– Isabelle Huppert, ‘In Praise of the Unexpected’
– Isabelle Huppert, ‘In Praise of the Unexpected’
State of Cinema 2025, Isabelle Huppert, 2025
The magic of cinema is something which leaps out, which isn’t planned: it’s what happens beyond all the work, the materials tools, the script, etc. In my life as an actress, it’s the encounters and su...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
“The magic of cinema is something which leaps out, which isn’t planned: it’s what happens beyond all the work, the materials tools, the script, etc. In my life as an actress, it’s the encounters and surprises which attract, or even enchant, me.”
– Isabelle Huppert, ‘In Praise of the Unexpected’
– Isabelle Huppert, ‘In Praise of the Unexpected’
Annette Apon, Frans van de Staak, Prisma #58, La pianiste, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Vers la mer, The Annihilation of Fish, ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/ML4ZN.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Annette Apon, Frans van de Staak, Prisma #58, La pianiste, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Vers la mer, The Annihilation of Fish, ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/ML4ZN.
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The State of Cinema 2025 with Isabelle Huppert at Bozar tonight is sold out. See you there!
November 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The State of Cinema 2025 with Isabelle Huppert at Bozar tonight is sold out. See you there!
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🐈 Elle (Paul Verhoeven, 2016)
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🐈 Elle (Paul Verhoeven, 2016)
November 6, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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🐈 Elle (Paul Verhoeven, 2016)
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🐈 Elle (Paul Verhoeven, 2016)
“Het aan de ratio vastgeklonken woord kampt met een inherente blinde vlek; is het mogelijk dat de cinema, met zijn haast magische affectieve krachten, de toeschouwer dichter bij het onbeschrijfbare brengt?”
Sara Schelstraete over Haneke's La pianiste
Sara Schelstraete over Haneke's La pianiste
Prisma #58
Enkele seconden van La pianiste (Michael Haneke, 2001) worden in beslag genomen door een minimalistische compositie: een witte, onbeschreven enveloppe rust op de zwarte lak van een piano. Er weerklink...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
“Het aan de ratio vastgeklonken woord kampt met een inherente blinde vlek; is het mogelijk dat de cinema, met zijn haast magische affectieve krachten, de toeschouwer dichter bij het onbeschrijfbare brengt?”
Sara Schelstraete over Haneke's La pianiste
Sara Schelstraete over Haneke's La pianiste
« D’une manière inusitée, c’est exactement ce que le film donne à voir. La parole de Spinoza sert avant tout de prétexte pour observer et filmer des personnes. »
Introduction d’Annette Apon à deux films de Frans van de Staak à CINEMATEK sabzian.be/text/introdu...
Introduction d’Annette Apon à deux films de Frans van de Staak à CINEMATEK sabzian.be/text/introdu...
Introduction à la projection de deux films de Frans van de Staak, Annette Apon, 2025
Annette Apon (1949) est une cinéaste, scénariste et productrice néerlandaise. En 1973, elle collabore à la production du film Uit het werk van Baruch d’Espinoza 1632–1677 de Frans van de Staak, dans l...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
« D’une manière inusitée, c’est exactement ce que le film donne à voir. La parole de Spinoza sert avant tout de prétexte pour observer et filmer des personnes. »
Introduction d’Annette Apon à deux films de Frans van de Staak à CINEMATEK sabzian.be/text/introdu...
Introduction d’Annette Apon à deux films de Frans van de Staak à CINEMATEK sabzian.be/text/introdu...
“Op een eigenaardige manier is dat precies wat je ziet. De woorden van Spinoza zijn vooral een aanleiding om mensen te filmen en om naar ze te kijken.”
Uit de introductie van Annette Apon bij twee films van Frans van de Staak in CINEMATEK, Brussel
Uit de introductie van Annette Apon bij twee films van Frans van de Staak in CINEMATEK, Brussel
Introductie bij de vertoning van twee films van Frans van de Staak, Annette Apon, 2025
Annette Apon (1949) is een Nederlandse filmmaker, scenarist en producent. In 1973 speelde en werkte zij mee aan de productie van Frans van de Staaks Uit het werk van Baruch d’Espinoza 1632–1677. Op 29...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“Op een eigenaardige manier is dat precies wat je ziet. De woorden van Spinoza zijn vooral een aanleiding om mensen te filmen en om naar ze te kijken.”
Uit de introductie van Annette Apon bij twee films van Frans van de Staak in CINEMATEK, Brussel
Uit de introductie van Annette Apon bij twee films van Frans van de Staak in CINEMATEK, Brussel
“What was I supposed to do, work a miracle? Yes, of course, Fellini had been expecting a miracle.”
New on Sabzian: Pier Paolo Pasolini on the filming of Accattone
New on Sabzian: Pier Paolo Pasolini on the filming of Accattone
The Vigil, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1960
What is it, in essence, that Fellini doesn’t like? The poverty, the sloppiness, the coarseness, the awkward, almost anonymous pedantry with which I’ve shot the scene. Fine, I agree. It was my first ex...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“What was I supposed to do, work a miracle? Yes, of course, Fellini had been expecting a miracle.”
New on Sabzian: Pier Paolo Pasolini on the filming of Accattone
New on Sabzian: Pier Paolo Pasolini on the filming of Accattone
Julian, Cato Kusters, Tillo Huygelen, Frans van de Staak, State of Cinema 2025 / Isabelle Huppert, Peter Watkins (1935-2025), ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/7gp2t.
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November 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Julian, Cato Kusters, Tillo Huygelen, Frans van de Staak, State of Cinema 2025 / Isabelle Huppert, Peter Watkins (1935-2025), ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/7gp2t.
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October 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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“The frame guides and misleads viewers with the aim of creating a surprise effect. What’s behind this apparently manipulative opening shot?”
Bram Van Beek on the opening shot of Jeunes mères (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2025)
Bram Van Beek on the opening shot of Jeunes mères (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2025)
Prisma #57
While the Dardenne brothers typically assume a transparent attitude with the camera functioning as an instrument connecting viewer and character, the opening scene of Jeunes mères seems to be toying w...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
“The frame guides and misleads viewers with the aim of creating a surprise effect. What’s behind this apparently manipulative opening shot?”
Bram Van Beek on the opening shot of Jeunes mères (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2025)
Bram Van Beek on the opening shot of Jeunes mères (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2025)
Jeunes mères, Bram Van Beek, Sabzian x Avila: Encounters with Belgian Filmmakers, La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV, Annik Leroy at CINEMATEK,... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/nneZZ.
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October 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Jeunes mères, Bram Van Beek, Sabzian x Avila: Encounters with Belgian Filmmakers, La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV, Annik Leroy at CINEMATEK,... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/nneZZ.
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Sabzian and Avila are happy to present a curated collection of conversations with Belgian filmmakers from Sabzian’s archive, paired with films of the same filmmakers whose work can be watched on the Avila platform.
COLLECTION: Encounters with Belgian Filmmakers
Together with Avila, the non-profit film distributor dedicated to showcasing Belgian auteur cinema online and in cinemas, we’re happy to present a curated selection of interviews from our archive with...
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October 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Sabzian and Avila are happy to present a curated collection of conversations with Belgian filmmakers from Sabzian’s archive, paired with films of the same filmmakers whose work can be watched on the Avila platform.
From the Archive: Notes and fragments from the Chantal Akerman Foundation archives, drawn from Akerman’s working materials for Golden Eighties.
Work Documents Golden Eighties, Chantal Akerman, 1985
The following pieces of text originate from the Chantal Akerman Foundation archives and are part of Akerman’s working material for Golden Eighties. Akerman: “A musical whose characters speak quickly, ...
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October 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
From the Archive: Notes and fragments from the Chantal Akerman Foundation archives, drawn from Akerman’s working materials for Golden Eighties.
From the Archive: Pierre Reverdy’s The Image (1917) reappears – fragmented and uncredited – in several of Jean-Luc Godard’s films. For both, the image cannot stand alone: “The image is a pure creation of the mind.”
The Image , Pierre Reverdy, 1918
The Image by the French surrealist writer Pierre Reverdy originally appeared in Nord-Sud, the literary magazine he founded in 1917 with Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Jacob. The text, quoted and recut,...
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October 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
From the Archive: Pierre Reverdy’s The Image (1917) reappears – fragmented and uncredited – in several of Jean-Luc Godard’s films. For both, the image cannot stand alone: “The image is a pure creation of the mind.”
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October 16, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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A Conversation between Frans van de Staak and Jacq Firmin Vogelaar, André Bazin, Isabelle Huppert, Vidéographie, Support Sabzian, ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/R6ovG.
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October 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A Conversation between Frans van de Staak and Jacq Firmin Vogelaar, André Bazin, Isabelle Huppert, Vidéographie, Support Sabzian, ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/R6ovG.
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October 16, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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“Television gives rise to a new notion of presence, void of all visible human content – nothing, in short, but the presence of the spectacle to itself.” – André Bazin, 1952
Reporting on Eternity: TV Visits the Musée Rodin, André Bazin, 1952
Television gives rise to a new notion of presence, void of all visible human content – nothing, in short, but the presence of the spectacle to itself [la présence du spectacle à lui-même]. A tracking ...
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October 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM
“Television gives rise to a new notion of presence, void of all visible human content – nothing, in short, but the presence of the spectacle to itself.” – André Bazin, 1952
On the occasion of the Frans van de Staak retrospective at CINEMATEK, Sabzian and Punto de Vista present an in-depth conversation between Van de Staak and writer Jacq Firmin Vogelaar on the film 𝘏𝘦𝘵 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘢𝘨𝘥𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘬 (1983).
A Conversation, Johanneke van Slooten, 1983
The way the actors stand there is as important as the text they utter – everything must become equally important, and therefore meaningless, because then it dissolves into itself. The texts you hear i...
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October 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM
On the occasion of the Frans van de Staak retrospective at CINEMATEK, Sabzian and Punto de Vista present an in-depth conversation between Van de Staak and writer Jacq Firmin Vogelaar on the film 𝘏𝘦𝘵 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘢𝘨𝘥𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘬 (1983).
Afternoons of Solitude, Albert Serra, Gerard-Jan Claes, Frans van de Staak, Nicholas Philibert, Ken Jacobs (1933-2025), Cécilia Mangini, ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/iit9m.
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October 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Afternoons of Solitude, Albert Serra, Gerard-Jan Claes, Frans van de Staak, Nicholas Philibert, Ken Jacobs (1933-2025), Cécilia Mangini, ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/iit9m.
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“Are we being given what we long to see? Why, then, are we bored?”
New text: @gerardjanclaes.bsky.social on Albert Serra’s Tardes de soledad [Afternoons of Solitude] (2024)
New text: @gerardjanclaes.bsky.social on Albert Serra’s Tardes de soledad [Afternoons of Solitude] (2024)
An Empty Ritual, Gerard-Jan Claes, 2025
The viewing box that is cinema is presented to us in a stripped-down form: as permitted voyeurs, balancing between identification and sadism, hoping for a “good” outcome, we watch what we are given to...
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October 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
“Are we being given what we long to see? Why, then, are we bored?”
New text: @gerardjanclaes.bsky.social on Albert Serra’s Tardes de soledad [Afternoons of Solitude] (2024)
New text: @gerardjanclaes.bsky.social on Albert Serra’s Tardes de soledad [Afternoons of Solitude] (2024)
American experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs (1933-2025) passed away this weekend.
October 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
American experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs (1933-2025) passed away this weekend.