« “I was summoned to the Department of Cinema for the Ministry of National Education, and the director told me: ‘We’d like you to make a film about the problem of leisure.’ I burst out laughing inside. Leisure—what’s that supposed to be? A guy in a cap who doesn’t know what to do on Sunday? (…) As for me, I didn’t know anything about leisure. Nor about vacations. We’re on vacation all the time. Unless you become a lawyer—but then, hell, you asked for it. » - E. Bernhard
« Today, Edmond Bernhard (1919–2001) is a complete unknown. Yet behind the scenes of Belgian film history, his name shines with brilliance. The body of work of this atypical filmmaker, who taught for roughly twenty years at INSAS (Institut Supérieur des Arts) in Brussels, consists of five short films that were the recipients of several awards at international festivals (Lumière des hommes (1954), Waterloo (1957), Beloeil (1958), Dimanche (1963), Échecs (1972)). These works that he was commissioned to create diverted from their original intent; his films are like poems, most often confined to enclosed spaces (a church, a museum, a chessboard), yet open to a fascination with the passage of time—the time of ritual, of history, of iguanodons as well as childhood memories; the time that elapses over a life or a game of chess; time that passes and that perhaps does not truly pass, that traps us in invisible temporal loops ». - Olivier Smolders.
« Without any commentary, instead using extraordinary images that sublimate commonplaces (Sunday boredom, the changing of the guard, children playing, a runner in the woods, a football match…), and through masterful editing, he constructs an exceptional work about the feeling of emptiness and the fossilization of the world. » - Boris Lehman
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DCP on server (SMPTE 2K) |
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1,33 |
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25 fps |
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sound |
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79,00 € |
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Digital file on server (FHD) |
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1,33 |
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24 fps |
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sound |
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79,00 € |
