19 – 20 October 2010

Jef Cornelis (1941) worked as executor, director and scriptwriter for the VRT, the Dutch-language Belgian public broadcasting corporation, from 1963 until 1998. Over those 35 years Cornelis accomplished an impressive body of work. It comprises over 200 titles and is generally considered as groundbreaking, artistically and cultural-historically.

Jef Cornelis: TV Works is a series of films and lectures (in Dutch) in Museum M, Leuven, Extra City and Cinema Zuid, Antwerp and Argos, Brussels.

Tuesday 19 October at 19.00
Extra City shows a film by Jef Cornelis followed by two lectures in Dutch

–  Film: Voyage à Paris, 1993 (51 min. 8 sec.)

–  Break

–  Lecture Koen Brams: BC: Cornelis over/met Buren

–  Lecture Dirk Pültau: AC: Cornelis over/in Antwerpen

Wednesday 20 October at 20.00
Filmscreening at Cinema Zuid following the lectures at Extra City. Introduction by Dirk Pültau. In Dutch.

–  James Lee Byars: Antwerpen 18 april – 7 mei 1969 (32'30")

–  Daniel Buren, 1971 (5'40")

–  Cogels Osylei (5'25")

–  Cogels Osylei, Berchem, 1971 (10'25")

–  De straat, 1972

–  Het gedroomde boek: variaties op "Vita Brevis" van Maurice Gilliams, 1979 (45'17")

Find the whole programme on: jefcornelis.janvaneyck.nl