Cinekur
For 5 weekends in the year 2000 Cinekur brought the pleasures of neighbourhood cinema to an ignored part of Brussels called Kureghem.
The lack of public infrastructure often both reveals and reinforces the disintegration of social networks in parts of the city. Community centres offer more than a cultural programme; they are also the places were people meet and where the most local information is exchanged. Besides that, not all urban dwellers have the mobility to go to town-centre or out-of-town complexes for entertainment.
Without being nostalgic, Cinekur went back to the format of the neighbourhood cinema to find temporarily a new use for a parish hall that had lost its function over time. The programme was a combination of feature films and the work of Brussels’ cinema workshops which take their locality as a subject.
Cinekur ran from April to September, every first weekend of each month. After five months it had found its place and function in the community, attracting an audience from Kureghem and the metropolitan area.
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