Gerard-Jan Claes

“But what we see in his films is a pure present, with ever-renewing colours, informing us that the essential is always in front of us: both for the life to come and the life right before our eyes.” – Joachim Lepastier → sabzian.be/text/has-it-st…

“Critical theory has always had a certain openness to the arts. Human expression is not only discursive reasoning. Enlightenment needs both mathematics and music. One is intuitive and the other slightly more precise, I would say.” - Alexander Kluge sabzian.be/text/i%E2%80%9…

“I’m the executive body of Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer and a slew of other great minds.” — A. K. (1932-2026) sabzian.be/text/i%E2%80%9…

Tribute to Frederick Wiseman by Nicolas Philibert (in French) → lascam.fr/actualites-res…

For Sabzian, I wrote about the now second-to-last Hong, What Does That Nature Say to You? (2025) → sabzian.be/text/up-in-out…

New text: Gerard-Jan Claes / @gerardfranz on Hong Sangsoo’s What Does That Nature Say to You? (2025) → sabzian.be/text/up-in-out…

New Collection: 𝘑𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘝𝘪𝘨𝘰. 𝘈 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 → sabzian.be/collection/jea…

‘Bearing the Consequences. Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind’ by Nina de Vroome [EN/NL] → sabzian.be/text/bearing-t… ‘Een eerste film. Een rondetafelgesprek...’ [Twee delen] → sabzian.be/text/een-eerst… → sabzian.be/text/een-eerst…

Sabzian in February: @dima_flavia in conversation with Lucrecia Martel → sabzian.be/text/%E2%80%9C… ‘Sensitivity of Celluloid’ (1932) by Jean Vigo [EN/NL/FR] → sabzian.be/text/sensitivi… ‘Presentation of Zéro de conduite’ (1933) by Jean Vigo [EN/NL/FR] → sabzian.be/text/presentat…

@Claudiomont2021 Yes, from the Cinéastes de notre temps series

On Sabzian we’ve just published a Collection dedicated to Jean Vigo, featuring texts by and about the French filmmaker, along with an annotated filmography. → sabzian.be/collection/jea…

“Because, you see, the cinema suffers more from flawed thinking than from a total absence of thought.” – Jean Vigo

Jean Painlevé on his friend Jean Vigo

Bespreking op @DeReactor2 van de Sabzian publicatie ‘WHO IS ME. Dichter van de as’ van Pier Paolo Pasolini, vertaald door Piet Joostens dereactor.org/teksten/daden-…

Another Vigo translation, of a presentation of Zéro de conduite he did in Brussels in 1933.

New translation I did of this wonderful Vigo text, which first appeared in 1932 in Sesame, a Brussels film magazine.

When I had a video call with Frederick Wiseman at the cinema...

Translation:

Jean Cocteau’s handwritten “poem” on Orson Welles