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THE LIPS OF OSIRIS ANI

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
A film about love, identity and re-incarnation, all trapped in the cycle of evolution. ‘The Lips of Osiris Ani’ was originally made to accompany a live performance by Club Moral in which Danny Devos shouts, his head under water, the sound amplified by a hydrophone...

THING

Anouk De Clercq
An architect talks about the city he has built. Gradually we realise that the city is imaginary. His account is an attempt to give his ideas a fixed shape. This, in a nutshell, is the story of Thing...

S.A.T.S. (SHORT AIRFIELD FOR TECHNICAL SUPPORT)

Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel Bonnemaison
Sequence shot of a caged bear at the Barranquilla zoo in Colombia, while one of the Pisan Cantos is being quoted in Ezra Pound’s own voice....

KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST GEEN KRITIEK? 1. WANNEER HET WOORD “KUNST“ TOT KOPEN AANZET

Jef Cornelis
Part of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art NOT Criticism?”, ’When the word ’art’ urges someone to buy’ is a report on a painting and framework factory, producing 300.000 oil paintings each year. Outworkers produce 50 pieces a day...

BESTE STEVE

Herman Asselberghs
In Beste Steve ('Dear Steve'), a man is smoothly dismantling a brand new MacBook Pro. Meanwhile, in a voice-over, a letter is read, addressed to Steve Jobs and signed by the artist. Beste Steve reveals the irreducible materiality of a tool that symbolises so-called immaterial labour...

SICILIA, VIE DI GIBELLINA

Thierry De Mey
In October 2006, Thierry De Mey went to the old city of Gibellina, Sicily, with the choreographer Manuela Rastaldi. On the site of the city, which was destroyed by an earthquake in 1968, Alberto Burri created 'Grande Cretto' in the 1980s, to pay homage to the victims of the disaster. For this monumental work, the artist imagined a vast flow of white cement rushing down the mountainside...
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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 47. DREAM WORK

Steve Reinke
We have been encouraged to analyse our sexless dreams as being latently sexual, full of repressed writhing bodies and blood-gorged organs. This project, this analysis is referred to as dream work. It assumes latent though is transformed by the processes of condensation and displacement into the manifest content of the dream...

RALFS FARBEN

Lukas Marxt
“We can’t use the same light, we have to use completely new keys with completely new light and even these can be found to a limited extent,” says Ralf at one point...

STILL

Michel Lorand
STILL is filmed in the curve of a motorway tunnel. The film, shot entirely in black and white, begins with the ringing sound of a gong, which takes several minutes to fade out. Together with the dying echoes of the instrumental sound, the images slow down as well, until the frame seems to freeze at the end of the film....