SAD IN COUNTRY (PART ONE) (Belgium,52'00", 2007) A FILM BY CATHERINE VERTIGE & KOSTEN KOPER Language: Dutch / English / French (w/ English subtitles). Shooting Format: DV / 8mm / Hi-8. Screening Format: DVD. Aspect Ratio: 4:3, B&W/Colour. Sound Mix: Mono. Produced by More Talent Than Space & Komplot. Supported by Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF). SYNOPSIS: Belgium is a country well noted for its 'vagueness' and taking this into account, this Belgian film delves into the world of 'quasi' cultural forms. One of the vaguest notions in the cultural lexicon is that of the 'collective' and this film explores, through a non hierarchical system of montage, collective art actions in Belgium and their intersection with dominant and subcultural political and cultural ideologies that brushed against them. The film is neither an obituary for cultural idealism nor a bittersweet tale of Utopian dreams of a 'better way of life' but a series of encounters raising questions about the collective archetypes which emerged ...
