Celestino
During a sabbatical in Mexico, Belgian journalist Ivan follows the trail of the enigmatic writer Celestino Pérez. When he arrives in the village where the author is supposed to live, he is nowhere to be found. The writer’s family takes Ivan into their home, but his fascination with their strange daily life quickly turns into an unexpected confinement. Gradually, the boundaries between his own experience and the image he forms of Celestino begin to blur.
Fascinated by the apparent contradiction between strangeness and familiarity, and inspired by his own experiences as a foreigner in Mexico, Hans Bryssinck began to explore the concept of the “intruder”, the limits of hospitality and how there is a kind of strangeness in everyone. Celestino is his first feature film.
Hans Bryssinck is an artist, lecturer and narrative practitioner, with a career spanning the visual, performing and audiovisual arts, focusing primarily on collaborative projects. His work includes the film Wilson y Los Más Elegantes (2014).
He is co-founder and artistic director of SPIN, an artistic support platform based in Brussels. He also teaches Performance at the School of Arts in Ghent and Narrative Practices for Community Work and Education at UCIRED in Puebla, Mexico. Since 2016, he has been living in Mexico, where he wrote the screenplay for Celestino and directed the film.
Since 2019, his artistic and educational practice has been deepened by narrative practices. These bring a different approach to working with people and communities, with care ethics at its core.
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