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M. Verdoncklaan, Mekhitar Garabedian, 2003 © the artist & producer
M VERDONCKLAAN
Mekhitar GarabedianIn this visual poem, we see someone looking through a pile of old photographs. The images are taken from the artist’s family archive, and are typical of the snapshots found in any family photo album. Taken in Syria, Lebanon and Belgium, they show adults and children celebrating and living their lives...
BANG [DING DONG]
Meggy RustamovaBang [Ding Dong] is a new video artwork by Meggy Rustamova, created at the invitation of the FOMU. The film tells the story of a group of children who learn the Dutch language. Rustamova starts from her personal memories as an eight-year-old refugee in Europe. Just like other newcomers, she stumbled over the word 'afraid'...
JAN COX, A PAINTER'S ODYSSEY
Bert Beyens - Pierre De ClercqBiographical film about the life and work of the Belgian painter Jan Cox. Cox had a tempestuous youth, during which he co-founded the Jeune Peinture Belge group and worked on the fringes of the Cobra movement. In 1956 he left for America, where he lived for the next 18 years...
HORAIZON
Meggy RustamovaHoraizon is an experimental film moderating between photography, moving image and sound. The title is referring to the English phonetic pronunciation of the world horizon. The film is shot in different locations throughout the world. The horizons, sunsets and weather conditions between these places form the common thread throughout the film...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 52. LOVE LETTER TO DOUG
Steve ReinkeI think it’s true what they say in all those songs: falling in love requires overvaluing the tiny ways in which one individual varies from another....
DOCUMENTARY CREDIT
Eva Meyer - Eran SchaerfIn economic jargon, “documentary credit” refers to a mode of payment that involves a bank between buyer and seller in order to ensure the buyer’s reliability. In the context of politics, “documentary credit” describes a kind collateral security that is not only based on the on the mutual loss of trust in each other but on the same time also recreates such mistrust...
GIRLS AND PHILOSOPHERS
Koen TheysVideo installation for two projectors. A diptych or triptych – depending on how you look at it. ’Girls and Philosophers’ sets out from two screens. Together they make out a diptych, with directly facing panels. In between, however, there is also the area which is marked off by the screens, where the spectators move about...
DE KLEUREN VAN DE GEEST
Jef CornelisDe kleuren van de geest (The colours of the mind) was broadcasted on October 28th 1997. It is the last Cornelis programme for the BRT. It's a fresh and penetrating visual essay about trance (music), iconography and disembodiment along our history. Cornelis wanders through epochs and regions, cultures and artistic practices...
