VICTORIA
71', color, 16:9, surround 5.1, English, BE, 2020
directed and edited by Sofie Benoot, Liesbeth De Ceulaer, Isabelle Tollenaere
starring Lashay T. Warren
photography Isabelle Tollenaere
sound recording Liesbeth De Ceulaer
sound design Kwinten Van Laethem
produced by Caviar
with the support of The Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Canvas, Belgian Tax Shelter
Victoria was pitched at Visions du Réel, Nyon (CH) - Selection Pitching du Réel 2014 and at Camden FF (US) – Selection Points North Fellowship 2016
THE
REMEMBERED
FILM
2018, 17'30”, 2K, 4:3, color, 5.1, BE, English
directed, filmed, edited & produced by Isabelle Tollenaere
sound recording & sound design by Kwinten Van Laethem
with the support of Beursschouwburg
In THE REMEMBERED FILM young soldiers from previous wars are seen roaming the woods aimlessly. They wear the uniforms of the Soviet troops, the Wehrmacht or the American military forces during the Vietnam war. In interviews, they share war memories they can’t possibly have experienced themselves, but which have taken root in their memory.
A friction between imagination and reality arises, from the fiction to which the boys testify but haven’t experienced, but which genuinely has imprinted a memory in their minds, in the midst of other real-life memories. Thus unfolds the intrinsic relationship between storytelling, memory and history. How forming memories is subject to fictionalisation. Just as history is a process of creative storytelling, a subjective construction.
You can watch THE REMEMBERED FILM on DocAlliance
SCREENINGS
2018 International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL) – Tiger Short Competition
2018 Vilnius Film Festival (LT)
2018 Beursschouwburg, Brussels (BE)
2018 Courtisane Festival, Ghent (BE)
2018 FICIC, Cosquin (AR)
2018 Hamburg International Short Film Festival (DE)
2018 Visite Film Festival, Antwerp (BE)
2018 Image Forum Festival, Tokyo - Kyoto – Yokohama – Nagoya (JP)
2018 Dokufest Kosovo (RKS)
2018 Sao Paolo International Short Film Festival (BR)
2018 25 FPS, Zagreb (HR) – Grand Jury Prize
2018 The Slovenian Cinematheque (SI)
2018 Chicago Film Festival (USA)
2018 Festifreak (AR)
2018 Ji.hlava (CZ)
2018 Kasseler Dokfest (DE)
2018 Microlights, Milwaukee (US)
2018 Kortfilmfestival Leuven (BE)
2019 International Women's Film Festival Dortmund (DE)
2019 Iowa City Documentary Film Festival (USA)
2019 Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (RO)
2020 Argos, Brussel (BE)
2021 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (DE)
PUBLICATIONS
Review in Cinergie
Interview in Filmmagie
Isabelle Tollenaere introduces THE REMEMBERED FILM on Mubi Notebook Column
This film was selected because of its creative storytelling and the impressive way in which the filmmaker develops intimacies between viewer, cameraperson and subjects. In an inventive but precise manner this film shows the instability of history, the collective memory of war and the naïve of its youthful participants (Jury statement 25FPS 2018)
THE
REMEMBERED
FILM
2018, 17'30”, 2K, 4:3, color, 5.1, BE, English
directed, filmed, edited & produced by Isabelle Tollenaere
sound recording & sound design by Kwinten Van Laethem
with the support of Beursschouwburg
In THE REMEMBERED FILM young soldiers from previous wars are seen roaming the woods aimlessly. They wear the uniforms of the Soviet troops, the Wehrmacht or the American military forces during the Vietnam war. In interviews, they share war memories they can’t possibly have experienced themselves, but which have taken root in their memory.
A friction between imagination and reality arises, from the fiction to which the boys testify but haven’t experienced, but which genuinely has imprinted a memory in their minds, in the midst of other real-life memories. Thus unfolds the intrinsic relationship between storytelling, memory and history. How forming memories is subject to fictionalisation. Just as history is a process of creative storytelling, a subjective construction.
You can watch THE REMEMBERED FILM on DocAlliance
SCREENINGS
2018 International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL) – Tiger Short Competition
2018 Vilnius Film Festival (LT)
2018 Beursschouwburg, Brussels (BE)
2018 Courtisane Festival, Ghent (BE)
2018 FICIC, Cosquin (AR)
2018 Hamburg International Short Film Festival (DE)
2018 Visite Film Festival, Antwerp (BE)
2018 Image Forum Festival, Tokyo - Kyoto – Yokohama – Nagoya (JP)
2018 Dokufest Kosovo (RKS)
2018 Sao Paolo International Short Film Festival (BR)
2018 25 FPS, Zagreb (HR) – Grand Jury Prize
2018 The Slovenian Cinematheque (SI)
2018 Chicago Film Festival (USA)
2018 Festifreak (AR)
2018 Ji.hlava (CZ)
2018 Kasseler Dokfest (DE)
2018 Microlights, Milwaukee (US)
2018 Kortfilmfestival Leuven (BE)
2019 International Women's Film Festival Dortmund (DE)
2019 Iowa City Documentary Film Festival (USA)
2019 Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (RO)
2020 Argos, Brussel (BE)
2021 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (DE)
PUBLICATIONS
Review in Cinergie
Interview in Filmmagie
sabelle Tollenaere introduces THE REMEMBERED FILM on Mubi Notebook Column
This film was selected because of its creative storytelling and the impressive way in which the filmmaker develops intimacies between viewer, cameraperson and subjects. In an inventive but precise manner this film shows the instability of history, the collective memory of war and the naïve of its youthful participants (Jury statement 25FPS 2018)