One of the new associated artists at Beursschouwburg is the Brussels based filmmaker Victoire Karera Kampire. She guest curates an evening with two films, both dealing with the idea of a ghostly presence in film and in history, both looking at the same part of the world: the American Historic South and its violent history.

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

(RaMell Ross, 2018, 1h 16min)
In the lives of protagonists Daniel and Quincy, quotidian moments and the surrounding southern landscape are given importance, drawing poetic comparisons between historical symbols and the African American banal. Images are woven together to replace narrative arc with visual movements. Composed of intimate moments of people sharing a community, the film allows the viewer an emotive impression of the American Historic South - trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race, while simultaneously a testament to dreaming.

Le Sud

(Chantal Akerman, 1999, 1h 11min)
An eclectic and edgy journey through the South of the United States after a Black man named James Byrd Jr. was gruesomely murdered by three white men. This is neither an anatomy of his murder nor the autopsy of James Byrd Jr., whose presence haunts the entire film, but rather an evocation of how this event fits into a landscape and climate both mentally and physically. Akermans lingering gaze unsettles the seemingly ordinary scenery, revealing the violent history that hides in the silence of the South.