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TOPIC II
Pascal BaesThe French film theorist André Bazin used to consider film as a spell of time. He spoke triumphantly of a victory on the irreversibility and the transitoriness of life. Baes’ ‘Topic I & II’ (the painterly quality of its dusky images is for a good reason reminiscent of Francis Bacon’s strokes) seem to question these transcendent views on cinematography...
DERRIÈRE LES VOLETS
Messaline RaverdyStarting from an empty factory, a family name, and an archival trunk, Derrière les volets is the poetic wandering of an apprentice filmmaker who moves into her grandmother's house. The film manifests itself as a daydream about oblivion and the invisible, woven together from scattered materials, archives and language games...
VACANCES
Nicolas DufranneThe subject of ‘Vacances’ is simple: a couple with a child, happy at first sight, sets out on a journey of which the goal and the destination remain unknown. In the hotel where they halt a letter is waiting for the young woman, which arouses some jealousy in her partner. Later on during the trip there is a car accident in which the man dies...
MARTIAL M
Edith DekyndtTwo hands each equipped with a magnet handle with care the iron dust that forms made right and left are symmetrical with each other. Revealed as in a mirror, forms are duplicated and in turn evoke the sea urchin, the bug or chestnut fur. The event takes place on a small scale in both hands over and refers to both terrestrial poles generating the magnetic field....
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 15. WALKING THE DOG
Steve ReinkeSometimes I think I am like Frank Sinatra. Then I try to think of specific examples of similarity, actual points where our beings might overlap, and of course can think of none....
LA TROISIÈME VOIE
Lucile DesamoryWhile reading, a nun is waiting for the train on the platform of the station. A pickpocket thief grabs her suitcase. The nun starts the pursuit....
THE CHAIR
Grace SchwindtThe artist interviews her grandmother about her experience of he occupation of Berlin in 1945....
... BECAUSE SUPERGLUE IS FOREVER!!!
Johan Grimonprez“Yesterday Salam Khamas, at the age of 93, married Mrs.Um Ahmed, at the tender age of 105, in the town of Basra, Iraq. It was sunny. The newly weds were both found dead in their honeymoon bed this morning. Mrs.Um Ahmed was still wearing her wedding dress...
MARCO POLO, UNE HISTOIRE DE BRODEURS
Ana TorfsThis video work is based on Marco Polo’s travelogue as dictated to Rustichello of Pisa, a writer of chivalric romances who shared Marco Polo’s prison cell in Genoa in 1298-1299. Torfs made it in her final year at the film and video department of Sint Lukas University College of Art and Design, Brussels, in 1990...
