An evening around the magic lantern. In his new, poetic essay film Broken View (2023), Hannes Verhoustraete explores how this early type of image projector was used in Belgian colonial propaganda. The Fossil Locomotion designed by Floris Vanhoof is also inspired by the techniques of the magic lantern.
Both of them draw on material from their family collection for this. Verhoustraete connects 8mm footage that his uncle shot in the Belgian Congo with exceptional, archival glass slides. Vanhoof started from his family’s fossil collection.
In the presence of Hannes Verhoustraete and Floris Vanhoof
Hannes Verhoustraete is a filmmaker, teacher and researcher at KASK / School of Arts Ghent. Searching for new ideas with old media, multidisciplinary artist and media-archaeologist Floris Vanhoof often returns to abandoned projection technologies for installations, expanded cinema performances, films and music releases.