DOCTOR FABRE WILL
CURE YOU
A FEATURE BY PIERRE COULIBEUF - 2013

Dr. Fabre will cure you
SYNOPSIS
Fictitious portrait of the Flemish artist Jan Fabre, based on his diary, his visual works and his performances. The film—a today’s fairy tale—projects Jan Fabre into his own imaginative universe and composes a character who changes ceaselessly identity, plays numerous roles under the most varied disguises; behind a mask, still another mask… The female character, like a ‘demon of passage’ using different faces, haunts the male character and inspires his metamorphoses, ad infinitum.
‘Existence simulates, it dissimulates, and it dissimulates that, even when dissimulating and playing a role, it continues to be authentic existence, thus binding the simulacrum to genuine authenticity with an almost inextricable malice.’ Maurice Blanchot.
CREDITS
Director Pierre Coulibeuf
Cast Jan Fabre, Ivana Jozic
DOP Julien Hirsch (A.F.C.)
Sound Engineer Quentin Jacques
Produced by Chantal Delanoë
In coproduction with Regards Productions (F), Serendipity Films (BE),
Angelos (BE)
& ZDF/ARTE, VRT, Télénantes, M_Media
WITH THE SUPPORT OF
Centre National du Cinéma;
Flanders Audiovisual Fund; MEDIA Pro-gramme of the European Union; Région Ile-de-France;
RAI5; ORFIII; RTVSLO; ERT
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Location Antwerp (Belgium)
Format 35 mm colour, Dolby Digital / DCP
Running time 61 min
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