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CAMERA OBSCURA

Michel Lorand
For ‘Camera Obscura’, Lorand made a night-time recording from a moving automobile, along an empty and unlit road, projected the dark images against a wall and filmed them again with a hand held camera...

BLENDER

Hans Op de Beeck
The video opens with a view of a deserted carousel. After a pause, the carousel slowly begins to turn, spinning faster and faster, the horses and the carriages blending into a single image, which blurs and disappears as the speed increases. As the speed decreases, the image of the carousel reappears and the fairground ride comes to a standstill. (Source: www.hansopdebeeck.com)...

MY WORD

Vito Acconci
In this feature-length silent film, Acconci is interested in language, the power of words and the qualities of Super8 film – a medium originally without sound...

ALLER-RETOUR

Agnès Lejeune - André Leplat - Jean-Claude Riga
‘Aller-retour’ is a two way journey between Greece and Belgium. In the late 1950’s the Greek and the Belgian government signed a series of agreements to facilitate the arrival of Greek workers in the Belgian coal-mines. Twenty years later Riga travels with a group of Belgian Greeks on their way back to Greece for the summer holidays...
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SHOW

Luc Deleu
’Show’ is an experimental documentary about an exhibition of young painters and an audio-visual show for the school ’Koninklijk Atheneum’. The video begins with recording, at double speed, of a meeting between Deleu and the other artists at the TOP Office. The artists drive round the school, still shooting images. On the playground an installation is being erected...

A SMALL TOWN IN SPAIN, TRIPTYCH

Jan Vromman
In A Small Town in Spain, triptych we look back to the old- and recent history of the small town Trujillo (Extremadura, Spain). With this retrospection we stay, overwhelmed by tender memories, always close to its inhabitants. ...

NOTSTANDSBORDSTEIN

Wolf Vostell
In 'Notstands bordstein' [State of Emergency Kerb] the title word is projected continuously in white letters on a black background; the video refers to a dé-coll/age happening in Munich on 6 May 1969 in collaboration with gallery Van de Loo...

COMMENT FILMER MOLENBEEK?

Johan Grimonprez - Franciska Lambrechts
The result of a workshop for which Franciska Lambrechts supplied a varied company of individuals and some basic equipment: a super-8 camera with 3 B/W films. What we see is a creative montage wherein the workshop and the discussed topics itself are at the core....

A JACOB'S LADDER, REMEMBERING GORDON MATTA-CLARK

Cherica Convents
A documentary made in 2013 about the construction of Gordon Matta-Clark’s Jacob’s Ladder. An original 16mm document sleeping for 35 years in the ‘Cherica Archives’. Filmed in 1977 during the days just before the opening of Documenta 6 in Kassel...

PLUS D'HONNEUR QUE D'HONNEURS

Jef Cornelis
One of the early architectural films by Jef Cornelis on Westerloo castle, dating from the 14th century, property of the princely family of de Mérode. In his typical way he explores, in sound and image, all facets of the building: the surrounding walls, the ponds around it and the parks...