{"id":445,"title":"L'école des pickpockets [The School for Pickpockets]","dimensions":"00:52:00","date_begin":"2000-01-01","material":"dvd","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":21,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":7,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"video-installation","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":"2000-01-01","reference":"BK007564","stream_count_app":37,"permalink":"l-ecole-des-pickpockets-the-school-for-pickpockets","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Sven Augustijnen","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Video","nl":"Video","fr":"Video"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/001/014/large/445.jpg?1493149382","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cem\u003e L\u0026rsquo;Ecole des pickpockets\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;[The School for Pickpockets], Sven Augustijnen shows how two experienced professional pickpockets transform an aspiring novice into a promising talent after only a few hours instruction in a closed rehearsal room, a fictitious training centre for pickpockets. The pupil is initiated into the craft step by step, and various tricks are demonstrated and practised. First a mannequin is used for the exercises, then some willing volunteers are brought in at random off the street. Sven Augustijnen makes the viewer uncertain with a narrative structure halfway between fiction and reality, between a fiction film and an educational human interest report on pickpockets. As a spectator it is impossible to distinguish between fact and fiction. \u003cem\u003eL\u0026rsquo;Ecole des pickpockets\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;was made as part of Brussels 2000, cultural capital of Europe. In this context, artists infiltrated their work into the underground tram connection between the North and South stations in Brussels.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eSven Augustijnen toont in \u003cem\u003eL\u0026rsquo;Ecole des pickpockets\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;hoe twee ervaren, professionele zakkenrollers een aspirant-zakkenroller na enkele uren opleiding in een besloten repetitieruimte, een fictief trainingscentrum voor zakkenrollers, tot een beloftevol talent omvormen. De leerling wordt stapsgewijs ingewijd in het m\u0026eacute;tier waarbij de verschillende kunstgrepen worden gedemonstreerd en geoefend. Eerst wordt er geoefend op een pop, daarna op bereidwillige vrijwilligers, lukraak van de straat geplukt. Sven Augustijnen doet de toeschouwer wankelen in een verhalende constructie die het midden houdt tussen realiteit en fictie, tussen een educatief opgezette human interest reportage over zakkenrollers en een fictieve film. Het is als toeschouwer onmogelijk om onderscheid te maken tussen feit en fictie. \u003cem\u003eL\u0026rsquo;Ecole des pickpocket\u003c/em\u003es\u0026nbsp;werd gemaakt in het kader van Brussel 2000, culturele hoofdstad van Europa. Kunstenaars infiltreerden in deze context met werk in de ondergrondse tramverbinding die het Noord- met het Zuidstation in Brussel verbindt.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":251,"name":"Sven Augustijnen","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}