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2020 is marked by the COVID-19 pandemic and many forms of social distancing and quarantine measures. Human had to stay inside rooms and the distance between people in public is specifically defined. Vietnamese filmmaker Nguyễn Lê Hoàng Việt turns to Beethoven’s music and wonders if it can provide us with a window to escape the four walls surrounding us. How can his music take us to the world outside?
Blending a time-stretched version of Symphony No. 3 "Eroica" - the monumental masterpiece of Beethoven - with zoom-ins, zoom-outs, shots of Hanoian’s daily life activities, this video installation invites audiences on a visual journey of human survival in this strange time.
Nguyễn Lê Hoàng Việt (* 1991, Hanoi)
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has attracted international attention through his films at the short film festivals: Short Shorts, BFI Flare London, Festival of 3 Continents
HOTEL BEETHOVEN is an international exhibition about Beethoven, his music, his ideas and his relevance for the world heritage of music today. It has been organized at BOZAR and is open until February 14, 2021
As exceptional innovator, Beethoven is a perennial starting point and source of inspiration for questions and ideas about the democratic power of sound. From popular culture to conceptual art, spanning a timeframe from 1770 to 2020, HOTEL BEETHOVEN is a time-travelling musical mix of different eras and points of view that features manuscripts and instruments alongside works from such artists as Antoine Bourdelle, Raoul Hausmann, Andy Warhol, Katie Paterson, Christan Marclay, Christine Sun Kim and John Baldessari.
BOZAR also invited six visual artists from from Albania, Austria, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Russia and Vietnam to be accommodated in the BEETHOVEN HOTEL. The Vietnamese contribution to this international celebration is a film, Eroica 2020, (‘11min) prepared by Nguyễn Lê Hoàng Việt.
HOTEL BEETHOVEN an international exhibition organized by BOZAR, Center of Fine Arts in Brussels, in collaboration with the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn. The exhibition is in commemoration of Beethoven‘s 250th birthday on 17th December.
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