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MAGNUM BEGYNASIUM BRUXELLENSE PART 1/2

Boris Lehman
‘Magnum Begynasium Bruxellense’ is a living chronicle of the inhabitants of the Béguinage area of Brussels, so named because it is located over the site of the old béguinage. Conceived of as an encyclopaedic inventory, the film is composed of around 30 chapters interlinked like so many pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, or an anthill of numerous and overlapping galaxies...

LA FESSE NOIRE

Lucile Desamory
In a convent, the punishment by a sadistic nun of a few mischievous school girls takes an unexpected turn...  ...

TUNE IN

Esther Johnson
"Ham Radio, the Space Age hobby where the world is your friend." Tune In follows the intriguing world of amateur radio operators, better known as Radio HAMS. Although amateur by definition, Radio HAMS are unique enthusiasts involved in a pastime that requires a rigorous licensing exam taking months of study...

NO APARCAR - SALIDA DE CABALLOS - GRACIAS

Luc Gobyn
Film document of the bullrunning of the village of Cuéllar, Spain....

APHASIA 3RD CHAPTER

Jelena Jureša
The 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...
untitled part 3a: occupied territories, Jayce Salloum, 2000-2004 © the artist & producer untitled part 3a: occupied territories, Jayce Salloum, 2000-2004 © the artist & producer

UNTITLED PART 3A: OCCUPIED TERRITORIES

Jayce Salloum
Excerpts from two conversations, one with Abdel Majid Fadl Ali Hassan (in Bourg al Barajinah refugee camp, near Beirut), and the other with Nameh Hussein Suleiman (in Baddawi refugee camp, near Tripoli, Lebanon), two elder Palestinians that have been living in the camps in Lebanon since 1948...

DE STOEL WAAROP IK ZIT / LA CHAISE SUR LAQUELLE JE SUIS ASSIS

Jan Vromman
Jan Vromman is not actively concerned with the creation of an oeuvre; he rather makes an impulsive use of wide ranging styles and gestures. The DVD ’De stoel waarop ik zit’ (‘The Chair I Sit Upon’) consists of two parts...

L'AUTEUR

Michel Lorand
The Medea installation is made up of a large, square table with four video monitors. A single actor or actress is seen on three of the four monitors, from the waist up and frontal. The fourth monitor shows only text. The starting point is a short prose piece written by Lorand about a young woman intending to kill her two children after the end of her relationship with their father...

NIELE TORONI

Jef Cornelis
While in the mid-1980s in South quarter of Antwerp work a museum of contemporary art was being set up, a series of private art galleries opened their doors in the same quarter. In the gallery of Micheline Szwajczer an exhibition was on with new works by the Swiss artist Niele Toroni. Cornelis presents a detached overview of the works—comment and soundtrack are missing...