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WITHOUT APPEARANCES (VOL. 1)

Messieurs Delmotte
’Without Appearances’ consists of a series of short portraits of people as they are stoically carrying out or undergoing a senseless act; a man is throwing vegetables into a small river, a woman is subjected to cracking firework. The camera hardly moves, no one speaks and the meaning of the absurd actions remains unclear...

WALKER, LA CITÉ RADIEUSE

Thomas Bernardet - Florent Mulot
This film is the Beta version of the “Walker” series, the first attempt at documentation of an architecture by two cameramen using the same camera. Experimenting the building as they stroll through it, they improvise an in-situ film scenario...

GRAVITY

Nicolas Provost
Playing with the physiological and cinematographic principle of the after-image, Provost causes dozens of fast-edited kissing scenes from European and American film classics to collide...

TRAVELOGUE 3: ALCHEMY BRUXELLOISE

Stefaan Decostere
The third and last part of the trilogy is a video-trip inside the ‘Poème électronique’, a bizarre and ideologically loaded film made by Le Corbusier, Varèse and Xenakis for the Philips Pavilion in the Brussels World Fair of 1958...

TREDICESIMA TRIENNALE DI MILANO

Jef Cornelis
In 1964 the thirteenth Milan Triennial Exhibition took place—at that time the most important international exhibition of contemporary industrial design. The theme was “leisure activities”. Cornelis made a documentary about the event for the national Belgian Dutch-language broadcaster (now VRT)...

COUDES

Michel François
A pair of elbows, of which the owner is wearing a purple sweater, keeps robbing against a rough surface over and over again. Holes appear gradually on the fabric....

UNTITLED 5.03

Peter Downsbrough
During almost fifteen minutes the camera explores the transhipment buildings, warehouses and silos belonging to the Werf- en Vlasnatie in the port of Antwerp in endless, mainly horizontal travellings from a driving car. The endless docks turn into a poetical labyrinth with railway containers and trucks, loading docks, pallet boards and goods...

HOUSEWARMING

Effi Weiss - Amir Borenstein
In a two-dimensional dystopian landscape of deserted half-built houses in Albania, a new mythology is in the making. The filmmakers, perhaps a contemporary incarnation of Goldilocks from the tale of the Three Bears, invade the houses and occupy their empty, liminal space and its missing furniture...

DOUBLE MENTAL REASON

Messieurs Delmotte

KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST GEEN KRITIEK? 4. WANNEER DE KUNST LICHTJES BEDWELMT

Jef Cornelis
Part of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art NOT Criticism?”, in this case : ’When art slightly intoxicates’. Museums are used as cultural oases in urban surroundings, where artworks are the object of selfless admiration...