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Steve Reinke
Part home-made science (before it became doctrine), part animated video reverie, Reinke’s brief and episodic compression is an incendiary release which opens by announcing the death of the reader, of any audience capable of pulling its fragments together, or better, of dissolving into its tissues, of allowing the body to change shape, to identify, for instance, with an insect. Or a stone....

SUICIDE

Shelly Silver
"suicide is a feature-length fiction of a woman’s voyage through the malls, airports and train stations of Asia, Europe and Central America, chronicling her fiercely hopeful and desperate search for a reason to continue living...

CITYGARDEN

Ruben Bellinkx
The film "Citygarden" is a video registration of a permanent installation in the city garden in Ghent, Belgium. At a certain spot in this city garden the earth is slowly splitting open and closing. Air cushion, two electronic controled ventils, air compressor....

MAISHA NI KARATA, LA VIE EST UN JEU DE CARTES

Philippe de Pierpont
In 1991, de Pierpont worked for the first time with six forward young boys, living in a tight group on the streets of Bujumbura in Burundi. In 1994 he went back to meet the six, and after that visit it took almost ten years before he saw them again. In ‘Maisha ni Karata’ images of the last encounters alternate with images from ’91 and ’94...

Oratorium for One Prepared Video Player and Eight Monitors, 1989, Frank Theys © the artist

ORATORIUM FOR ONE PREPARED VIDEO PLAYER AND EIGHT MONITORS

Frank Theys
The video player is positioned in the middle of the room. The magnetic tape rolls out of the player as a big loop which travels over several supports around the player. Surrounding this is a second circle of monitors on pedestals facing the centre of the player and the video loop...

VITA NOVA

Vincent Meessen
In his famous essay Mythologies (1957), Roland Barthes demystified the French colonial imperialism by means of a photograph that appeared on the cover of Paris-Match. This picture, that became an icon of modern criticism, shows a colonial cadet on guard.Vita Nova unveils the biographical ghost underneath the surface of this mythical picture...

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...

TURTLENECK PHANTASIES

Gernot Wieland
Turtleneck Phantasies tells the story of a German writer who worked as a sailor on cargo ships and later, after a shipwreck, spent over 30 years in psychiatric institutions tattooing his fellow inmates. The film combines historical accounts with personal memories, merging the documentary and fiction...

THANK YOU FOR COMING

Jacques Charlier - Daniel Remi
‘Thank you for coming’ is a compilation of humourist sketches, playfully balancing between kitsch and absurdity. Impulsively canned with the help of friends and neighbours, these low-budget videos show unassuming and endearing pastiches and spoofs on the world of art and television, with a fondness of typically Belgian themes...

RECORD: I LOVE YOU

Eva Meyer - Eran Schaerf
A dislocating experiment realised at Amsterdam’s cultural centre Brakke Grond for the exhibition ’Smooth Space’. The video shows a dancing couple indirectly through round mirrors mounted on different heights onto the ceiling. The camera, held by the male dancer, is pointed upwards to film himself and his partner...