White She-Camel, The  Belgium
2006, 52min.
Prod.: Sandrine Blaise, Xavier Christiaens, Script/Dir./Dir. of Phot./Compos./Sound/Edit.: Christiaens Xavier.
A man returns home after a long journey. The curtains in the open windows flutter in the breeze. His wife sleeps. And he recognises nothing of what was once so familiar. Stretching the boundaries of poetry, science-fiction and documentary film, and with Chris Marker and Andrei Tarkovsky firmed lodged in his mind, he wanders through the remains of an Aral Sea in the throes of draught, metaphor for a landscape, a world and a country which no longer exist.
Awards
Prize Scam (Belgian Society of filmmakers).
| Xavier, Christiaens  Christiaens Xavier (born 1963)
Former assistant to Bruno Dumont and Benedicte Lienard. His principal poetry film, The taste of koumiz (2003), recalls the aesthetic universe of Alexander Sokourov. It has been selected at more than twenty international festivals and has won two prizes. It was broadcast on the Belgian national Channel RTBF. The white she-camel is his second film, co-produced with his wife Sandrine Blaise.
Filmography
Taste of Koumiss (2003), The White She-Camel (2006).
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