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PIECES OF BARCELONA
Alberta SessaWalks around a city; movement, people. A variety of moving and motionless objects. The gaze tries to catch up with what the city has to offer but the perspective is constantly crossed by passers-by, from left to right and right to left. For a moment they’re caught in the frame, a moment later they continue their journey and life outside the frame...
THE RESIDENCE (A WAGER FOR THE AFTERLIFE) (SINGLE SCREEN VERSION)
Katleen Vermeir - Ronny HeiremansThe Residence (a wager for the afterlife) focuses on the artist as entrepreneur in a global society that qualifies economy as the single measure of things. Offering a biting commentary on the contagious nature of capitalism it elaborates on the symbiosis of art and value, life and economy. Using codes of fiction and fact it questions representation and mediation of art and architecture...
LA VIE AUTREMENT
Loredana BianconiIn Do You Remember Revolution (1998), Loredana Bianconi interviewed four Italian women, former members of the Red Brigades. Here, she presents four Belgian-Moroccan women who have chosen to lead lives that do not conform to their families’ hopes and expectations...
THE LAMPS
Shelly Silver"The Baroness is not a futurist. She is the future." Marcel Duchamp The Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven né Plotz, was an unsung member of the Dada Movement. The Baroness was a poet, artist, vaudeville performer, runaway, rabble rouser, crossdresser, and all around public provocateur...
AUTOPORTRAIT CONTRE NATURE
Michel FrançoisA character in a blue shirt is filmed with a fixed camera, in slow motion. We hear the echo of his footsteps. It’s the artist himself: this is an “auto portrait contra nature”. François lights up a cigarette while glass bottles start raining down around him: they shatter noisily, yet miraculously without ever hitting him...
EEN DICHTER IN TEXAS, H.C. TEN BERGE
Jef CornelisThe Dutch poet H.C. Ten Berge is closely followed during a stay of several weeks in Texas. Ten Berge goes on the lookout for an image of this American state which nullifies the stereotypical one, closely connected to the popular TV-series ‘Dallas’...
Toroni, 1989, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
TORONI
Angel VergaraStraatman is posing for a work by Niele Toroni, during the opening of a solo exhibition Niele Toroni in the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels. Toroni himself approaches him....
WALKER, LE PRÉ CATELAN
Thomas Bernardet - Florent MulotThis film tries to apprehend the Pré Catelan, built on a main avenue in Toulouse in the 1970s. It is built around an inner courtyard originally designed to be full of life, but whose shops have closed one after the other. Two figures stroll through it without ever meeting each other, and cast a circumspect gaze on this architecture they will ultimately fail to appropriate....
LOOKING DOWN
Bernard GigounonA ship, filmed from above, is slowly moving through the image: the bow, the deck, and the metal cover plates. As soon as the camera arrives at the load, however, consisting of sand and stones, something weird happens: the load turns into a Martian landscape, it seems as if the camera is transforming into a satellite, exploring some barren planet...
