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A LA RECHERCHE DU LIEU DE MA NAISSANCE
Boris LehmanFilm director Boris Lehman returns to Lausanne, where he was born on 3 March 1944, at the end of the war. He is returning after 44 years. He had lived in Lausanne just one year. His parents were Jews who had sought refuge in Belgium when the Nazis seized power in Poland...
LE GOÛT DU KOUMIZ
Xavier Christiaens’Le Goût du Koumiz’, Christiaens’ first feature film, is all about the consequences of the communist regime for nomadic tribes in the Russian province of Kyrgyzstan. The narrator saw how his father, the chief of a tribe, was deported in the thirties, becoming isolated from nomadic life...
DIE LIEBE STÖRT DER KALTE TOD - BALLADEN MAGAZIN 9
Alexander KlugeSince German Classicism, it has become customary to translate extreme, emotional events into a ballad, a popular form of song. This ‘Balladen Magazin’ brings Cossack lamentations, the horrors of the war in Chechnya, and the execution of the unfortunate Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, among others...
SEQUENZA
Manon de Boer - George van Damsequenza is an experimental film project by Manon de Boer and George Van Dam based on the composition Sequenza VIII for solo violin by Luciano Berio....
DARK MATTER
Lucile DesamoryIn 1989, a wave of unidentified flying objects (UFO's) swept through Belgium. A woman, who witnessed the phenomenon, talks about her consternation....
MOUTH AND RED CHICKENS
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte tosses around chestnut chickens with his mouth. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...
HET RAADSEL VAN DE SFINKS
Jef CornelisThe work of architect Charles Vandenhove is an exploration of architecture in its fundamental simplicity and inevitable variety of form. His work, and in addition today’s architecture, is explained in the Liège Hotel Torrentius, a mansion from the 16th century being renovated, and this document’s focal point...
ROBERT HOUBEN, MINISTER VAN STAAT
Jef CornelisRobert J. Houben (1905-1992) was a Belgian Politician and a member of the Christian Social Party (at the time called Christelijke Volks Partij or CVP). In 1969 he was declared ‘Minister of State’ (Minister van Staat), an honorary title granted by royal decree to prominent politicians who made an outstanding effort in public life. In 1980-81, Cornelis filmed Houben in his home interior...
