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Peter Downsbrough
With his videos Downsbrough creates natural portraits of urban environments. Everyday surroundings are observed, dissected and transformed into architectural illustrations, with a proper sense of order and chaos. In long, steady shots and travellings space is reduced and abstracted into minimalist constructions, simultaneously they assume identifiability...

NEMAWASHI CACAHUÈTE (A-SIDE)

Charley Case
The work of Charley Case is often based on a binary notion. This video is constituted by a two-part form, modelled after a peanut. It is the biotope of pairs of organisms, uprooted bodies evolving around each other, cherishing each other ephemerally or ultimately melting into an intangible unity...

N12°13.062'/ W 001°32.619' EXTENDED

Vincent Meessen
The title of this video refers, through GPS coordinates, to a location in Africa, which is both specific and abstract. Two men wander through a deserted site in the middle of the desert. At first sight it’s an archaeological ruin. As the images reveal more of the environment, it becomes clear that the construction was built by the two of them, hewn from the surrounding stone...

ANAL MASTURBATION & OBJECT LOSS

Steve Reinke
The artist decides to found his own art school and begins by assembling materials for the library. Finding too many words are available, he glues together the unnecessary pages of books....

LE LIVRE EST AU BOUT DU BANC

Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle Nyst
Beyond the documentary aspect, the script proposes a reflection on books, through a poetic fiction. From the desert of Nomala, Theresa Plane and Professor Codca make their way towards the star "Without a doubt". On the star they meet Nadin the Angel. A dialogue ensues during which multiple aspects of books are touched upon...

AMONG THE PALMS THE BOMB OR: LOOKING FOR REFLECTIONS IN THE TOXIC FIELD OF PLENTY

Vanja Smiljanic - Lukas Marxt
“Among the palms, The Bomb” is a cinematic exploration that rounds up a seven-year-long research of the Salton Sea – the largest lake in California that is on the verge of ecological collapse, and the resilient community struggling to survive within this dystopian reality...

DO YOU LIKE BODY-ART?

Frank Van Herck
Video-performance registration. Van Herck uses the relations between body and image. The body is no longer an untouchable model, an entity of preference. It now carries the fantasies of the media. It is no longer a material body, but a weightless body, a gesture that develops into the abstract language of the media. The connection to reality becomes less direct: filtered in order to fascinate...

MYRTLE BEACH

Jacques Louis Nyst
An early film by Nyst anticipating the work he would make years later: poetical ambience pieces, built around congealed memories, associations arousing from the imaginary and undermining the real. The poetry derives from the editing, from the wide range of colours, from the rhythm of its numerous evocations...

BOUWEN IN BELGIË

Jef Cornelis
A documentary that attempts to analyse the process of building as it is drawn in the minds and mentality of the people who occupy the house. It is a cinematic expression that wants to present examples of the ways in which the occupants, oriented on the pragmatic, create their own environment in spite of the official regulations...

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...