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DE GESCHIEDENIS VAN MR. KROLL
Harald ThysWith his partner, Mr Kroll collects scrap metal along the road. He is very surprised to see what people throw away. In his workshop he tinkers with the broken parts he has found. In the meantime a voice-over relates how the same Mr Kroll has brutally mutilated and murdered a number of young girls....
CLAMOR
Edurne RubioPeople who committed suicide and babies who died before being baptised were not accepted in Catholic cemeteries until not so long ago. Desperate relatives secretly sought out a dignified place for their bodies. Burials that shared hills and wind with executed people, atheists, passers-by, Protestants.....
CE TANT BIZARRE MONSIEUR ROPS
Thierry ZénoThrough various letters by painter and engraver Félicien Rops and fragments from the book Camille Lemonnier devoted to him, we penetrate the artist’s work: an often gruesome, at times amused account of 19th century morals; the subject matter is permeated by eroticism and haunted by death...
... UNSEEN BY THE GARDENER
Marie-France Martin - Patricia Martin’…unseen by the gardener’ was made for the exhibition of Tempered Ground at the Museum of Garden History in London and recorded in the gardens surrounding this museum, located in a medieval church...
DE ECLIPS VAN SINT-GILLIS
Peter KrügerThis film follows the erratic rhythms of life in Sint-Gillis/ Saint-Gilles, the bustling Brussels neighbourhood that, at the time, was home to ninety-nine nationalities (there are more today). From the perspective of filmmaking partners Peter Krüger and Peter Brosens, both living and working in Sint-Gillis, the viewer becomes intimately acquainted with local lore and trash...
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...
BAVURES D'ESCARGOTS
Jacques LennepSnails crawl over the artist’s body and are turned into a green mush. The sludge is skilfully spread on the ground in the shape of a spiral. The work appears to be a reference to Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jelly....
DES MORTS
Thierry ZénoZéno and his team made this experimental documentary on location in Mexico, the US, Belgium, South Korea, Thailand and Nepal. As the title indicates, the film focuses on the death, i.e. the deceased—and the living, who remain behind. The author refuses to comment: he wants the rituals and the participants to speak for themselves through the detached camera that merely records...
THE NIGHT BEFORE
Charley CaseThis video is inspired by haptonomy, an affective, physical form of prenatal communication with the foetus. When a hand is placed on an expectant mother’s belly, her unborn baby responds by moving close to it and, if the hand moves, by following its position. In the video this interaction is simulated by the projection of a film on a pregnant belly...
