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Stefan Bohnenberger - Simon VogelBack from a shooting a film in Sinai, a person in Paris is watching the rushes at his hotel room. During his last day with the Beduins he started a notebook. But what is the truth? Where is the camera? What is time in cinema? And why the obsession with Mozart? Why are the clouds from yesterday the same as today? Where is Prince Stufitz?...
55 barbes bleues, 1999, Thierry De Mey © the artist
BARBE BLEUE
Thierry De MeyFifty-five men, of all ages, most of them recruited via ads on the radio, succeed one another before the camera, with quick-fire editing; each speaks a sentence, or just a word... telling the story of Bluebeard, faithfully following Perrault’s text...
PHILIPPE, CARRÉ BLANC… CARRÉ NOIR
Jean-Claude Riga‘Philippe, carré blanc… Carré noir’ is built along the thin line that separates reality from fiction; documentary from drama. Philippe, who also appears in L’Oeil et la Cage, is our guide in this descent into the world of drugs in Belgium at the beginning of the 1980’s, a subject Riga treats with extreme crudity and straightforwardness...
BUILDING STORIES #001 (THAT DISTANT PIECE OF MINE)
Els OpsomerBuilding Stories # 001 [That Distant Piece Of Mine] is a 16mm film recorded in Senegal; reportedly the most accessible West African country, a tourist destination with a renowned hospitality. Far from the "clichés" shows this film a poetic stroll through a topical Senegal...
21 ÉTUDES À DANSER
Thierry De MeyThe question here is how to merge dancing footage with elements of fiction. What is the right tone, the golden proportion to tell and dance the stories without resorting to techniques of a musical or a ballet? New ways of telling a story: this is, without a doubt, a critical challenge for dance today...
MY BROTHER’S GARDENS
Hans Op de BeeckHans Op de Beeck based his video work on his short story by the same name, ‘My Brother’s Gardens’ (2001). In this narrative video work a group of young actors – narrators, as well as characters – move through simple backgrounds and scale models and a story is told about the complex relationship between three brothers: an identical twin and a third, autistic brother...
Avant-garde citizens: Samm’s story, 2007, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson © the artists
AVANT-GARDE CITIZENS: SAMM’S STORY
Libia Castro - Ólafur ÓlafssonSamm relates a unique story of flight and survival. After being forcibly recruited as a soldier in Liberia, he manages to escape imprisonment and certain death, to find himself unexpectedly in Rotterdam. His experiences with the Dutch immigration and asylum system, as well as the criminal justice system, read as a saga that would be impossible to make up....
SPIEGEL
Lili DujourieA mirror and a fireplace are reflected. A naked woman enters the frame; stands up next to the fireplace ... We see her nude reflection in the mirror, standing off-camera, before she enters the camera's active zone. From our observation point, we see her walk forward, breaking the threshold of the camera's field of vision but still reflected in the mirror...
Majjudo (Lost Man), Laurent Van Lancker, 2009 © the artist & producers
MAJJUDO (LOST MAN)
Laurent Van LanckerSomeone who leaves the dying fire without his torchlight is a lost man. According to the filmmakers, ’Majjudo’ is ’’sensorially drifting in a French-Senegalese experience of Shadow Cinema’’. While light is mainly provided by torchlights, creating a cinema-driven shadowplay, people are dancing and playing music during the night...
