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WALKER, IUT DE CHIMIE TOULOUSE LE MIRAIL
Thomas Bernardet - Florent MulotThis film is a visit to the Institut Universitaire de Chimie (chemistry polytechnic school) of Toulouse, near the site of AZF, a chemical factory which exploded in September 2001. The building was partly destroyed by the explosion and abruptly evacuated. It is now abandoned, but we are not its first visitors since the catastrophe....
LE CORPS VERBAL: UN VOYAGE DANS L'UNIVERS DE MARCEL MOREAU (COURT-MÉTRAGE)
Charley Case - Manuela de TervarentThe writings of the francophone Belgian writer Marcel Moreau (°1934, Boussu) are little known to the larger audience. Although he is considered a marginal writer with an idiosyncratic, instinctive, both organic and lyrical style, he is the author of a considerable body of work. Case and de Tervarent made this short but sparkling portrait that shows the writer in his daily environment...
LILIANE VERTESSEN
Jef Cornelis“Liliane Vertessen wants to stay young forever. And she wants to be world famous,” Régine Clauwaert claims in this edition of Kunst-Zaken, the art magazine of the Belgian public broadcaster BRT in the 1980s. Cornelis filmed Vertessen at her home in Hasselt. He edited this short portrait to the music of Tim Buckley’s Sweet Surrender, raw blues the artist chose herself...
PROPS FOR DRAMA: PLOT HOLE
Sarah & Charles'A plot hole is a gap or inconsistency in the storyline that contradicts or breaks the originally set narrative logic'. In an abstract visual set-up of doors, walls and windows, we watch an actor change into two different characters while a voiceover coordinates his movements. The front- and backstage of the archetypal stage setting have been put up alongside each other...
CHRYSALIDES
Patrick BernatchezThis trilogy of films takes the Fashion Plaza Building as its subject; the films were all shot on location there. Taken together, the films form a figurative, cinematic counterpoint to the abstract audio rendering of the facades in Fashion Plaza Nights...
MIRROR MODE
Emilio López-MencheroThe Mirror Mode series is an ensemble of short works by Emilio López-Menchero released in 1999. The series exploits the technical possibilities of his miniDV handycam and makes use of the reversed screen display of the camera as a tool to establish a relation between the artist – who records himself without the help of a cameraman – and the frame of camera...
YEMMA (MA MÈRE)
Jen DebaucheAs an ode to the song “Yemma” (My Mother), performed by Moroccan musician Ikhalf, Jen Debauche registered the timeless poetics of desert life. Ikhalf plays the Loutar and sings his song on a mountaintop, while looking over his traditional Moroccan village, where human and nature thrive harmoniously under the burning sun....
UNTITLED (DOTS)
Valérie MannaertsA silent color-film on Super 8 travels through daily life on the rhythm of jumping black dots glued on the filmstripts. The sequences show us fragments of the artist’s studio, artworks on the floor, works she holds in her hands. Fragments of herself are mixed with artworks and passages taken from journeys...
GELEGENHEITSARBEIT EINER SKLAVIN
Alexander KlugeGelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin (In Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave) is the second Kluge's film, after Abschied von gestern (1966), starring his sister Alexandra. Roswitha Bronski is a nurse married to the chemical engineer Franz Bronski and they have three children...
BRUSSELS, ROOM WITH A VIEW
Mira SandersAt dusk they show up by hundreds, maybe even a lot more. They fly from the left to the right, going up and then down again. Carried by the wind, they defy gravity. They float. Maybe there is a leader, a conductor, and the others know to follow him. The wind takes them everywhere, and together they make sculptures in the sky...