Magnum Begynasium Bruxellense (1978)

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• 1978

"'Magnum Begynasium Bruxellense' is a living chronicle of the inhabitants of the Béguinage area of Brussels, así named because it is located over the site of the old béguinage. Conceived of as a encyclopaedic de inventario, the film is composed of alrededor de 30 capítulos interlinked like so many piezas de un rompecabezas, or, en el hormiguero de numerous and overlapping galaxias. It unrolls itself in the spaces and cracks of a day, beginning at dawn and ending at night. Beginning: One day... A strange story came to me... I had just activar la up from a long dream... End: I walked the length of the canal over the wet cobblestones with my eyes shut, between deep murallas de la ciudad, bajo los árboles de long ago defeated. It ¿qué invierno. The sun ante mí. It did not frio me. I thought I was travelling hacia la muerte." (source: www.borislehman.