COLLECTION

SIGHTLESS

Michel Lorand
SIGHTLESS is filmed in the heart of the countryside. In the middle of a vast grassland, a collection of stones has been overgrown with brambles and weeds. On top of this tumulus three trees are slowly dying, unable to get sap from their roots to their branches, because farmers removed a small layer of bark. The film consists of a series of static shots, increasingly closer and closer to one tree...

TABOURETS

Claude Cattelain
In the video ‘Tabourets’, recorded in stop-motion, Cattelain undertakes several attempts to build a globelike shape with straight, edgy stools. In his work Claude Cattelain tries to catch the essence of the volatile. His video miniatures are flashes of amazement and fragility, staged at times, or noticed in passing...

1. L’INFIRMIÈRE CANNIBALE

Lucile Desamory
A nurse is stealing corpses in order to eat up their brain. The hospital's staff eventually finds out about it. The cannibal nurse is brutally killed and buried in the garden…...

LE GOÛT DU KOUMIZ

Xavier Christiaens
’Le Goût du Koumiz’, Christiaens’ first feature film, is all about the consequences of the communist regime for nomadic tribes in the Russian province of Kyrgyzstan. The narrator saw how his father, the chief of a tribe, was deported in the thirties, becoming isolated from nomadic life...

COLOURING IN

Rebecca Jane Arthur
Colouring in is composed of a series of Super 8 film portraits of female friends of the artist who each share reflections with her on their philosophies of life, how they connect to the world and what nurtures or grounds them. Filmed in their domestic spaces, the film offers intimate glimpses into their worlds...

GORIK LINDEMANS

Jan Florizoone
A portrait of the artist Gorik Lindemans. Second part of an ongoing series of artist portraits....

THE BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY PROJECT

Tzu Nyen Ho
The script for the film, which takes place in a room at Singapore’s Supreme Court, is entirely based on the lyrics of Queen’s song Bohemian Rhapsody. A boy is on trial, and is broken-hearted at the sight of his ‘mama’ crying...

AU QUART DE TOUR

Antonin De Bemels
In ’Au quart de tour’ a character moves through a black image. Because of the musical editing in De Bemels’s typical stroboscope-like and fragmentary style it seems as if the character moves about hectically, though in reality he hardly moves foreward at all....

VIDÉO HEBDO 24

Claude Cattelain
Hoping to be able to record his dreams Cattelain sets the camera in front of him while he is sleeping....

LORSQUE LE BATEAU DE LÉON M. DESCENDIT LA MEUSE POUR LA PREMIÈRE FOIS

Jean-Pierre Dardenne
A black-and-white video introduced by the brothers (looking like long-haired radicals) that revisits key people and places in Seraing’s workers demonstration for health insurance in 1960...