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LET'S TRY TO FIND OUT WHAT GOES ON IN THE MALE BARRACKS

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
Symbolism is the bridge between Romanticism and Modernism. The recordings for this movie started during summer 2004 in Antwerp, in AMVK’s studio in Belgium. There she filmed the Symbolist, personified by painter-fortune teller Louis Wuytack, and the romantic, personified by musician Mauro Pawlowski...

POSSIBILITÉS POUR UN ÉCRAN DE TÉLÉVISION / RÉFLEXION-ÉMISSION

Jacques Louis Nyst
This film, composed of three parts (1 - 'Réflexion / emission’; 2 - 'Une part de silence pour une part de réfléxion / animation’, 3 - 'Concentration’), was made the year of the first video exhibition in Belgium, held at the Gallery Yellow Now in Liège...

THIS DAY WON'T LAST

Mouaad el Salem
A day that could also be a life. A young man who could also be an older woman. A nightmare that could also be a dream. In Tunisia, while it could also be somewhere else: on the border between the necessity and the fear to make a film, the necessity and the fear for the revolution, is This day won’t last a cooperation with a distance...

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - LE PRÉSENTATEUR DE 20 CLIPS [20 X 30'']

Michel Bonnemaison - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman - Joëlle de La Casinière
A newscaster announces each of the different video clips of the series ’Video à la chaîne’ separately....

PANIQUE AU VILLAGE, ÉPISODE 9 : LE TRÉSOR D'INDIEN

Stéphane Aubier - Vincent Patar
Cowboy, Horse and Indian put a bird lodge in their garden, right in front of their door. But the third time they hit the stake, the iron hammer head comes loose and lands on Indian’s head...

LE GOÛT DU KOUMIZ

Xavier Christiaens
’Le Goût du Koumiz’, Christiaens’ first feature film, is all about the consequences of the communist regime for nomadic tribes in the Russian province of Kyrgyzstan. The narrator saw how his father, the chief of a tribe, was deported in the thirties, becoming isolated from nomadic life...

THE GLASS WALL

Dora García
Two girls are in permanent contact with each other through an electronic answering machine. Without any visual contact or prior knowledge they begin to sound out each other through questions and fantasy images. Slowly, without giving it further thought, their curiosity evolves into a meticulous role play...

DEER STALKING

Wim Catrysse
A study of how the body and its surroundings relate is recurring theme in Wim Catrysse’s early installations. In Deer Stalking, a single-channel installation from 1996, we notice a vague shape with antlers that seems to crawl about in a small space. Because of the stroboscopic light, the shape can only be seen at intervals...

VAN BASSENGWERKER TOT HAVENARBEIDER (ANTWERPEN)

Jef Cornelis
In 1965 more than 13,000 labourers set to work every day in the port of Antwerp and even then, every day there was a shortage of workers. “The Antwerp docker is the quickest in the world,” we hear in this creative documentary, “though they never had any specific training for their job—except for the markers...

IJSBREKER 18: KUNST AAN DE KUST

Jef Cornelis - Mark De Geest - Anton Stevens - Jackie Claeys
In this episode of ‘Ijsbreker’ there is a focus on the Belgian coast cities of Knokke and Ostend, who also have a history as major art cities. The Casino in Knokke was considered one of the main promoters of art during 1950-1970, mostly because of Gustave Nellens, who made sure the casino housed work by, among others, Margritte...