Volckaert, Didier

°1971 - Belgium. Lives and works in Ghent.
Didier Volckaert obtained a Master Degree in Visual Arts and Experimental Cinema at the St Lukas School of Art in Brussels, and is a PhD. Researcher at RITS / University of Brussels. He mainly made documentaries, largely inspired, both with regards to form and content, by experimental films and pre-cinema. He is also a curator, teacher and visual artist. ...

Marchetti, Walter

°1931 - Canosa di Puglia (Italy).
Walter Marchetti was an Italian composer who adopted John Cage's dadaist aesthetic and pioneered interactive and concrete music. In 1964 he formed the ZAJ group (a sort of European version of Fluxus) with Juan Hidalgo in Madrid. ...

Hänzel & Gretzel

°1966 - Nancy (France).
Hänzel & Gretzel was the pseudonym of Daniel Mangeon, video artist, author, maker of music videos, television director and image dresser of all sorts, who died in 2000 of AIDS at the age of 34. Throughout his broad oeuvre the recurring themes are a passion for transgressive pop music and an interest in the absurd ...
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Rombout, Rob

°1953 - Amsterdam (The Netherlands).
Rob Rombout is an independent documentary film-maker, teacher and lecturer. He co-founded the International DocNomads Master Program and is now course director for DN at LUCA, Brussels.Most of his films were co-produced and / or shown on international television channels and awarded in several festivals ...

Schuurbiers, Alex

°1990 - Lives and works in Antwerpen
Alex Schuurbiers (she/her, NL, 1990) is a filmmaker and photographer living and working in Antwerp, Belgium. She is also the founding member of Ursula, a female-led collective of artists working with the moving image. Her research focusesses on hybrid realities and physical carriers of time, dealing with memory and its representation in film based works ...

Decostere, Stefaan

°1955 - Kortrijk (Belgium). Lives and works in Ostend.
Stefaan Decostere studied film direction at the National Film School RITS in Brussels. He is among the handful of truly innovative directors working within television, creating new forms to more complex ideas. In his works he tries to problematize the relation between documentary and fiction by dissolving the boundaries between them. ...

Bitton, Simone

°1955 - Rabat (Morocco).
Simone Bitton was born in Morocco in 1955. She lived in Rabat and Jerusalem, and then in Paris, where she has been based since her studies at the French Institute for Cinema Studies (IDHEC). She holds both Israeli and French citizenship, and defines herself as an Arab Jew who likes neither walls nor borders. She has been making documentary films since 1981. ...

De Cock, Jan

°1976 - Etterbeek (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.
Jan De Cock is renowned for his sculptural installations, which the artist sees as monuments to Modernism. His monumental installations mix often plywood sculptural modules that recall twentieth-century abstraction – formally referring to the modernist and constructivist idioms – with color and black-and-white photographs, video- and film works ...
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Krajinovic, Jasna

°1967 - Slovenia.
Jasna Krajinovic received her training at the Academy for Theatre, Film and Television in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and later at INSAS, Brussels. Before 'Un Été avec Anton', she filmed 'Saya et Mira, rêves perdus…' (2002), 'Deux sœurs' (2005) and 'La Chambre de Damien' (2008) ...
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Luna, Bigas

°1946 - Barcelona (Spain)
A varied career as a filmmaker, painter and designer makes the Catalan artist Bigas Luna a very singular and interdisciplinary artist. As a filmmaker he gained critical acclaim with his Trilogía Ibérica (1992-1994). Orígenes-Courbet (2004) can be considered as a fine example of his frequent playful and experimental excursions into visual art. ...

Van Damme, Philippe

°1965 - Brussels (Belgium).
Philippe Van Damme’s main preoccupation seems to be the city, its construction and the notion of time reflected in it. In Rue de l’Avenir he zooms in on a hundred year old demolished street in Brussels. For Der Landmesser am Japanischen Palais he went to Dresden and discovered (what did you expect?) a completely different city ...

Vanderborght, Karen

°1973 - Belgium
Karen Vanderborght lives and works in Brussels. She completed her studies in audio-visual arts at the “Higher Institute for fine Arts, Sint Lucas”, Brussels in 1995. Vanderborght draws most of her inspiration out of the techniques and concepts of cinematography, electronic music, visual arts and fairy tales and revolves them in an anarchistic queer DIY attitude. ...

Karera Kampire, Victoire

°1990 - Liège (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.
Victoire Karera Kampire (1990) is a Rwandan-Belgian director and sound designer. She holds a Master's degree in New Media and Society (VUB) and is a graduate from LUCA School of Arts, in audiovisual arts ...

de Boer, Manon

°1966 - Kodaikanal (India).
Manon de Boer (India, 1966) lives and works in Brussels, where she is a member of the artist collective Auguste Orts, created in 2006. She studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam and at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam ...

Opsomer, Els

°1968 - Gent (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.
Els Opsomer is a video artist, photographer and graphic designer. The complexity of daily reality fascinates her. Drawing from her ever-growing archive of urban images, she compiles personal reinterpretations of global reality, revealing its polymorphic and multi-coloured textures and many illusive sounds and languages buzzing through the streets and over the squares ...