11/11/11  Stefaan Vervoort

In his newest film, Brussels artist Sven Augustijnen uses Belgium's colonial past in Congo to demonstrate that discovering truth in an art documentary is a pointless and futile effort, albeit one well worth seeing.

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Just recently he created a newspaper which perfectly matched the design of the newspaper in which it was inserted, namely, the Belgian dailt, De tijd. The editors of De Tijd were shocked when they arrived at their desks in the morning to find an unknowninsert in their own newspaper. Sven Augustijnen plays with the veracity of fact by presenting his fiction as documentary. On the off chance that it is the truth, then it's the truth about stealing.

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Sven Augustijnen

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