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BAREFOOT BIRTHDAY ON UNBREAKABLE GLASS
Rebecca Jane Arthur - Azam MasoumzadehIn Barefoot Birthdays on Unbreakable Glass, three women – Constance, Azam, Anna – each spend a day with the filmmaker in their homes...
DRIE MINUTEN, RINGAUTOBAAN, TREKKEN, ROLTRAP, STOP STAP STOP STAP...
Filip FrancisThree minutes of a close-up on a clock. Suddenly, and unexpectedly, a close-up on the white lines of a highway appears. Speed and minimalism melt together. The next image is that of a labourer, lugging a pile of cables. The movement of an escalator in a subway station follows and finally the flickering of a traffic light for pedestrians changes from red to green and back again...
GREAT HOUSE
Didier Volckaert"This project finds its inspiration in a journey to Egypt, my second visit to the country. Purposefully I have chosen a tourist trip: a five days cruise on the Nile from Luxor to Aswan, six days in Cairo and five days in Hurgada. I had brought 1 photo- camera [B/W and color slides] and three S8-camera’s [B/W and color celluloid]...
BIENVENUE
Jen DebaucheJen Debauche films the experience of the most intriguing rite of passage: the birth of a human being. In an eerie space, reminiscent of a dodgy dystopian factory, we catch glimpses of a male body in a vacuum bag, suspended from the ceiling...
APHASIA 3RD CHAPTER
Jelena JurešaThe starting point of Jelena Jureša’s interest in the evolution of a narrative constituting the final episode of Aphasia is a single photograph, which is never shown in the work, but its presence is almost tangible, heavy, almost to the point of materialising before our eyes. We identify it in speech, we identify it in motion. It is heard, but not directly seen...
ER LIGT EEN VIDEO IN DE SOEP
Stefaan DecostereAn overview of the history of video art till 1983. Unconventional in style and international in scope, the work presents an overview of artists and independents working in television. Excerpts of tapes, installations and interviews are introduced through playful use of sophisticated graphics...
EXPRMNTL
Brecht Debackere - Steven DhoedtKnokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second 'World Festival of Film and the Arts' in 1949, organized in part by the royal cinematheque of Belgium...
VROUW IN DE STRAAT
Karen VanderborghtA video collage with running texts, that quote influent female artists, and juxtapositions of home moving style footages, still images and an inventory of Brussels cinematographic memories. The result is a conversation with three generations of godmothers, pictured under the influence of the first two feminist waves. ...
La révolution, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
LA RÉVOLUTION
Angel VergaraHistorical impressions of the Belgian Revolution are combined with images of present day strikes, with excerpts from interviews with the French philosopher Alain Badiou and Belgian politicians, among others, and with the artist’s early performances (see Films Actions, 1987-1989)...
ECLIPS
Anne-Mie Van KerckhovenIn ‘Eclips’ Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven uses a disturbed fragment from Michelangelo Antonioni’s classic ‘L’Eclisse’. The film contains a scene in which actress Monica Vitti turns her back to the camera. Her turn is digitally slowed down and further manipulated by Van Kerckhoven...
