COLLECTION

PEAU PIERRE

Antonin De Bemels
To make this video, Antonin De Bemels used images taken during a photography session at an old palace. There were two naked bodies and walls and dust. The photographer was speaking all the time, telling the dancers what to do. The filmmaker was hidden in a small alcove, silently watching and filming. An intimate relationship came about between those bodies and his...

THE ABSENCE OF TELEPRESENCE

Dan Oki
The Absence of Telepresence is a personal observation and reflection on the gradual fusion of telephone, address book, camera and computer into one gadget. Hybrid documentary, feature and research film about communication technologies, on which we had become so hardly dependant as individuals and as a society...

REFLECTED PIXEL

Claude Cattelain
The camera is filming its reflection until it bumps it to reveal the next mirror ......

WALKER, IUT DE CHIMIE TOULOUSE LE MIRAIL

Thomas Bernardet - Florent Mulot
This film is a visit to the Institut Universitaire de Chimie (chemistry polytechnic school) of Toulouse, near the site of AZF, a chemical factory which exploded in September 2001. The building was partly destroyed by the explosion and abruptly evacuated. It is now abandoned, but we are not its first visitors since the catastrophe....

DIEPER

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
This is the subtitle for Dieper: “deeper into matter, further away from hell.” What used to be the exclusive domain of interest of philosophers is now taken over by scientists: the research into the essence of matter. “The anti-strategy of each modernist rule of reduction loses its force in the inevitable confrontation with the abstract systems of radical negation and refute...

PREHISTORICAL STILLS

Charley Case
Case follows the Brussels-based artist, performer and actor Dirk Hendrikx to his atelier where he performs ‘Prehistorical stills’, an intensive piece of body art involving earth and fire – but also sawdust, stones and a couple of nails. We witness how this singular artist makes ‘paintings’ from the positive imprint of his body....

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Charley Case

EL TIEMPO PERDIDO EN MEXICO

Luc Gobyn
A visual document about people and time in Mexico City and a few villages in Veracruz....

ARRANGEMENT IN GREY

Emmanuel Van der Auwera
The title Arrangement in Grey is an allusion to the painter James Abbott Whistler, who used it to emphasize the ascendance of abstract over figurative composition...

TENTATIVES DE SE DÉCRIRE

Boris Lehman
"To keep on and on going round oneself - clearly impossible but what else to do? I come back to myself as in a nostalgic dream each time filming what no longer exists what has died in me already the past and shadow of myself I keep in filming again and again to declare that I film not what I forgot to include but what didn’t yet exist ’Trying to describe oneself’ is a movie about...