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DEUX OISEAUX CHANTENT
Jacques Louis NystTwo characters wonder about birdsong. One of them affirms that a page of text lies at the origin. The dialogue that ensues is evocative of a series of images of familiar objects and of the snowed over countryside of Presseux Village. The influence of the winter landscape orients the conversation towards the idea of whiteness and silence. The action slows down...
LES MOUCHOIRS DE KABILA
Sarah Vanagt"Large parts of Goma were covered with lava after the eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano in January 2002. Today children live in the ruins on the lava. They sell paper handkerchiefs to grown-ups in the city, and lava rocks to construction builders...
BREATHING OUT-I-M-E
Charley CaseA blurry little shape in ‘(Breathing Out-i-m-e)’ keeps spinning, almost making it invisible against the white background. The sound accompanying it is like panting and it’s as if the vibrating shape reacts to it....
MOSCOW X
Ken KoblandA camcorder diary and chronicle of public opinion filmed in Moscow during the fall of 1990, a time of huge political an economic changes in the former Soviet Union. The tape reveals Kobland’s own fascination with the diversity and complexity of the Russian’s reactions to such changes...
Something about today, Mekhitar Garabedian, 2008 © the artist & producer
SOMETHING ABOUT TODAY
Mekhitar GarabedianAgainst a background of orchestral music by Sibelius, photographic images are presented with the colour drained. At first the screen seems to be one solid block of cream, but slowly some colour is faded in, providing outlines of shapes. As the viewer ascertains the outline of buildings, words are imposed over the image - a contents page is slowly provided...
HIER WOONT MIJN HUIS
Anne-Mie Van KerckhovenAnne-Mie Van Kerckhoven pays tribute to her parents’ house that has recently been obtained by an Antwerp theatre. This film is about Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven’s incapacity to undergo changes over which she has no control. In making this video, she exorcised nostalgia and grief by sharing it...
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....
LE ROBOT
Jacques Louis NystThe robot in 'Le Robot’ is as a matter of fact a broken spring from the Nysts’ bed. Here it appears as a giant that a hand attempts to flatten, but ends up releasing. As the “robot” breaks free, we hear a bird singing. 'Le Robot’ is one of Jacques-Louis Nyst’s earlier experiences with the medium...
L'étranger, Mekhitar Garabedian, 2006 © the artist & producer
L'ÉTRANGER
Mekhitar GarabedianThe work ’L’Étranger’ is an adaptation of a poem of the same name, the introductory part of Charlies Baudelaire ’Petits poèmes en prose’. This short piece of prose composed as a poem was published for the first time in 1869 and tells the story of a nihilistic man, who has given up or lost all his connections...
OUR AFRICA
Alexander Markov1960. The USSR starts humanitarian aid programs based on Marxist ideology in several newly independent African countries. For more than 35 years the Soviets expand their influence in Africa. Soviet filmmakers are sent along to document the glorious advance of socialism on the entire continent...
