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In-between takes: WELP – Jonas Govaerts/ Potemkino 2014
Sam, a 12-year-old with a vivid imagination, heads off to the woods for a camping trip with his Cub Scouts pack. He soon stumbles upon a hidden tree house and meets a shifty, masked child. Sam – who has a mysterious past he never speaks about – often tells tall tales and when he tries to convince his leaders something about the surrounding woods feels wrong, they ignore his warnings. As he gets more isolated from the pack, Sam becomes convinced that a terrible fate awaits them: feral boy Kai turns out to be the helper of the Poacher, an evil psychopath, who has riddled the forest with ingenious traps and is intent on slaughtering the cubs… one by one…
WELP/CUB is a horror adventure, produced by Peter De Maegd for Potemkino and directed by Jonas Govaerts. With Jan Hammenecker, Maurice Luijten, Gill Eeckelaert, Evelien Bosmans, Titus De Voogdt and Stef Aerts.
Buy a trap, kill a cub! Become a co-producer through CUB’s crowdfunding campaign and see your name in the credits. Jonas and his crew are filming another 3 weeks. CUB is to be released in 2014.
Director of Photography Nicolas Karakatsanis.
Maurice Luijten & 2nd camera assistant Bryan Moors.
Director Jonas Govaerts and DOP Nicolas Karakatsanis in a freshly dug grave.
1st assistant director Wim Bonte & director Jonas Govaerts .
Maurice Luijten is Sam in CUB (Jonas Govaerts/Potemkino 2014).
Gill Eeckelaert is Kai in CUB (Jonas Govaerts/Potemkino 2014).
Maurice Luijten with Roxanne Janssens & Saskia Verreycken (key make-up and prosthetic design).
Gill’s feet.
Jonas Govaerts.
Evelien Bosmans.
Director of Photography Nicolas Karakatsanis.
Focus puller Bart Van Otterdijk.
Gaffer Tim Janssens.
2nd assistant director Caroline de Mayer.
Stefan Jakiela, SFX in this shot.
Titus De Voogdt.
Gaffer Tim Janssens & best boy Joost Henderieckx, set of WELP (Jonas Govaerts/Potemkio 2013).
Crane shot, set of WELP (Jonas Govaerts/Potemkino 2013).
Nicolas Karakatsanis : Adjusting Infinity
Adjusting Infinity, a photo exhibition by Belgian cinematographer and master of darkness (dixit Stephan Vanfleteren) Nicolas Karakatsanis opened today at the Alice Gallery in Brussels. Totally stunning prints (on Fujiflex, with that rich, warm tonal range and the discrete metallic glimmer reminding of the old Cibachrome prints). Autumn yellows and chocolate browns and glossy golden shapes sometimes, sometimes merely visible, dark deepsea shades, in next-to-black greys and near jet-blacks you have to actually see to believe. Persons and objects are photographed with very little -if any- depth of field. Their image becomes a still from a dream, a big blurred archetype, often dark but never gloomy, appealing, but not loud. Detached, intimate, almost solemn, focussed on Infinity. Voilà! Respect!
Now, when Vanfleteren recognized Karakatsanis as a Master of Darkness, Stephan actually meant that Nicolas (who is in fact a very nice guy) is a person who doesn’t need light per sé to bring a photograph to life. Think that is impossible, a paradox? Go see the show and learn, girls and boys, or live to regret you couldn’t get away from your Facebook page (or your X-Box, for that matter). Your bloody Twitter-account. Whatever.
Till December 12 2012 at the Alice Gallery, 4 Rue du Pays de Liège/Land van Luikstraat in downtown Brussels.
All photographs © NK
Jo Voets (photographer) 