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THREE SITTERS: NORMAN, BRIAN, FRANCES
Rebecca Jane ArthurWhere we place our chairs at home defines us as our lives grow around them with the things that receive our attention and form our habitats. As the focal point for attention and observation in these portraits, each chair is a motif for setting one’s place in the world and each habitat is explored as a construction, dictated by presence and absence...
14-18 (PEINTURES D'HISTOIRE)
Jacques LennepLennep visits the trenches of World War I and waves the Belgian flag....
L'ART DU COUPLE
Jan BucquoyThe artist and film maker plays the part of himself in this feature film that highlights Bucquoy’s relationships of the past two or three years, with the assistance of some ten (ex-)lovers with whom he had a relation in this period. What kind of relations do people enter into? Bucquoy: “Living together or separately—I've tried it but it is too expensive, as my mother used to say...
A IS HOTTER THAN B
Edith DekyndtA is hotter than B is a video showing the dissolution of a drop of ink captured in an ice-cube which disintegrates between the artist’s fingers. While the rigorous title assumes the status of a mathematical formula, it contrasts with the majesty of the ample, harmonious movement of the colored liquid...
WAAROVER MEN NIET SPREEKT 2: ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Jef CornelisThis documentary, based on a scenario by Geert Bekaert, is an attack on the alienation induced by modern architecture and town-planning. In the monotonous suburbs, life dies away and boredom rules. The city centres are depopulated and dead. The community spirit is not stressed and the individual does not find expression...
ESPRIT DE BIÈRE
Claudio PazienzaInside of you, beer gets transformed and it transforms you on its turn. It creates tiny utopian ideas, all night long. In a way, it also typifies the strange relations you’ve got with things, with the world around you: you drink it without really knowing what’s inside it and what it is. ’Esprit de bière’ is a kind of attempt on an archaeological liquid...
DAVE'S GREAT IDEA
Dirk De Hooghe - Rudy TrouvéA portrait of the Scottish guitarists/musicians Dave Robertson and Craig Ward. The camera — hand-held most of the time — follows the musicians very closely. The film begins with the two men still asleep. Later they roam the inner city of Antwerp, looking for kicks to dispel boredom...
DAVID HOCKNEY
Jef CornelisIn 1969, David Hockney made 39 etchings based on fairytales by the Grimm brothers. Having chosen them for their straightforwardness, Hockney drew up his own interpretations of these folk stories, with countless explicit references to the work of other artists, such as Breughel, Hieronymus Bosch or Leonardo da Vinci...
A PECULIAR FAMILY ALBUM
Amina Menia“From 1953 to 1957, the Deputy-Mayor of Algiers Jacques Chevallier appointed Fernand Pouillon to undertake building projects: social housing for the benefit of poor Algerians. With this ambitious programme, Jacques Chevallier was planning to reduce the blatant inequalities between Europeans and the indigenous population...
