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DER KREISLAUF

Katrien Vermeire
In her new short film Katrien Vermeire depicts a unique game that is played on Belgium’s beaches in the summer months. When the weather is good, one can find colorful flowers for sale in small, impromptu-built shops. But these flowers hate being watered or rained on, as they are made of paper. Der Kreislauf takes an intimate look at the young players....

VENISE 4

Claude Cattelain
The waves of the Venice lagoon flood on the dock....

SUITE

Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel Bonnemaison
Although filmed and conceived during the same stay in Lima (1975) as ‘Rose de Lima’, ‘Suite’ is a completely different aesthetic proposal. A portrait of Lima’s street mechanics, the poorness and roughness of its black and white image, accentuated by Jacques Lederlin’s music – a soundtrack that was added in 2007 – almost carries a neo-realistic touch...

MARIAGE

Caroline Cereghetti
In Mariage, Caroline Cereghetti follows an entire family during a wedding. The whole family is ready for the major event, they wait for the future bride, then, they go to the ceremony, followed by the dinner and the party. This silent video is a study of gestures, the attitudes, and the spaces that make out the human condition, the hierarchical relations within a family...

CONTAINER 04: DE BETOVERDE WERELD VAN ART DECO

Jef Cornelis
A discussion about ‘Art Deco’, a term which caught on in the 1960s and it was derived from the “exposition des arts décoratifs et industriels” in Paris in 1925...

THE TABLE TURNING

Ruben Bellinkx
In the film installation "The Table Turning" we see a table supported by four tortoises. The tortoises struggle amongst themselves to set the table into motion. Each part gives a specific view on this event.PART I: In this part we only see extreme close up shots of the four tortoises without knowing that they are supporting a table...

Shelly Silver, SOUTHSIDE, 1978 © the artist

SOUTHSIDE

Shelly Silver

LES VACANCES DE NOËL

Jan Bucquoy
With this tenth part Jan Bucquoy calls his ‘Decalogue on the sexual life of Belgians’ a day – even though parts eight and nine are apparently still in various stages of pre-production...

1937 [FIRST CHAPTER OF INSTALLATION, FRENCH VERSION]

Nora Martirosyan
"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...

BUCKETHEAD

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte makes a somersault, tumbles in a bucket of water with his head, and ends up on his behind, totally soaked, with a bucket for headwear. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...