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Gnawa, Olivier Dekegel, 2010 © the artist & producer
GNAWA
Olivier DekegelA medium-length film produced and distributed by the director, a true cinephile, lover and connoisseur of classic and experimental cinema. Filmed on Super 8, Gnawa is an immersive flood, a sensorial trip to the magico-religious rites of the Gnawa in Morocco, made with such virtuosity that it elevates the viewer, cinematographically, into a trance akin to that of the dancers and musicians depicted...
MORT DE RIRE
Charley CaseSomeone in a skeleton suit is dancing on a dark stage, a tracking light pointed at him. The skeleton-figure starts laughing cruelly. The boundary between life and death is blown away in a roar of laughter....
CASSEURS DE CAILLOUX
Michel FrançoisA video made in Brazil shows three men trying to split a rock with a wedge and two sledgehammers. What is involved is not just the desire to live a physical relationship with things, but to find forms to make that relationship visible....
SITE, EEN TOPOGRAFISCH PORTRET
An van. Dienderen"What’s identity? To what extent does origin determine the work of an artist? An van. Dienderen analyses the matter by means of a visual anthropological portrait of José Besprosvany. This choreographer of Mexican-Jewish-Slavic origins tests out his multiple identity through the personal trajectory of his work...
CASCADEURS (RIVIÈRES)
Michel FrançoisA waterfall. Now and then a person lets the water carry him down. The irregular gaps between the split-second appearances of the people sliding down underscore the continual flow of the water....
OWNER OF THE VOYAGE
Jan Dietvorst - Roy VillevoyeSince 1992, Roy Villevoye has frequently visited Papua, the former Dutch New Guinea. Visual artist Jan Dietvorst has joined him regularly; together they produce an oeuvre of films that deal with the influences to which the local people, the Asmat, have been exposed since their first contact with Western outsiders in the 1950s...
Magnum Begynasium Bruxellense, 1978, Boris Lehman © the artist
MAGNUM BEGYNASIUM BRUXELLENSE
Boris Lehman"’Magnum Begynasium Bruxellense’ is a living chronicle of the inhabitants of the Béguinage area of Brussels, so named because it is located over the site of the old béguinage. Conceived of as an encyclopaedic inventory, the film is composed of around 30 chapters interlinked like so many pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, or an anthill of numerous and overlapping galaxies...
VAN BASSENGWERKER TOT HAVENARBEIDER (ANTWERPEN)
Jef CornelisIn 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...
