COLLECTION

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 24. VISUALS ELF

Steve Reinke
People ask me, Steve, how do you manage to make so many films ? Why are they so prolific ? And I say, Oh they are not films but video. It is a simple and effortless process....

OTOLITH II

The Otolith Group
As in ’Otolith I’, the narrator in ’Otolith II’ is related to Anjalika Sagar, one of the founders of the Otolith Group. Here, she is looking back from a distant future, while a pressure "high enough to change coal into diamond" functions as a metaphor for the way in which cities will in the future be confronted with continuous population growth...

L'AGE D'OR / I WANNA BE INJURED

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
This is a series of an on going work-in-progress that will consist of twelve parts. It is made of three minutes movies shot on Super8 wherein the artist Danny Devos performs a ritual on a mythical spot....

ANESTHÉSIE

Hänzel & Gretzel
With Doctor Terror, the anaesthesia always goes wrong. A trashy music video for the French electro-dada group Geins ’t Naït with whom Hänzel & Gretzel collaborated frequently....

LE BUFFET AUX TROIS COULEURS

Jacques Lennep
One after the other, Lennep eats a plate of sausages, a plate of goat’s cheese and a piece of cake. Each time he wears a mask suitable for the “meal”....

EPISODE 1: SO. CAL.

Jayce Salloum
A Chicana woman (Aida Mancillas) tells a story accounting/recounting her experience of growing up in Southern California. Her account is juxtaposed with rural and urban images from the region....

TWO HANDS

Fabio Wuytack
Two Palestinian hands. In Palestine there are only four heart surgeons. Mohammed Tamim is one of them. In 2003 he came to Belgium to specialize in paediatric surgery. The second Intifada has turned Mohammed into a war surgeon. Each day he fights his own battle, trying to achieve his dream. There are times when he works in the operating room for seven days a week...

MOI, MON FRÈRE, LA FILLE

Nicolas Dufranne
Nicolas has a twin brother who looks so much like him that nothing tells them apart. One day they decide to leave for Norway together. For the duration of the trip they amuse themselves with simple and meaningless activities like taking pictures of each other, playing chess, chattering... They cross the border and they are perfectly happy...

THE RUNAWAY

Jan Dietvorst
A Dutchman speaks with authority about the ideas and customs of 'others'. It is the stereotype contrast between 'us' and 'them'. Gradually the relationship between these two becomes more ambiguous, the protagonists appear to be part of each others mythology....

OCCUPIED

Peter Downsbrough
The film is shot entirely within the site of the Cité Administrative in Brussels. In an interview during the early stages of this project, Peter Downsbrough said : " I use film to introduce time within my observation. Its very unfolding makes film the ideal means to do this"...