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SPEECH FOR A MELTING STATUE

Anne Reijniers - Paul Shemisi Betutua - Nizar Saleh Mohamedali - Rob Jacobs
In June 2020, thousands of people took to the streets in Brussels to make a fist against police brutality and institutional racism in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. For a moment, it seemed that some demonstrators would take down the statue of colonial king Leopold II in a nearby square...

20. JULI AACHEN 1964

Wolf Vostell
Often Vostell recycles images for his videos, like for '20 July 1964 Aachen', when a dé-coll/age happening was organized at the Technical University of Aachen. The date coincides with the anniversary of the failed attempt to kill Hitler. The happening itself involved a festival of new music and a protest against totalitarian structures...

MOVING STORIES

Nicolas Provost
Nicolas Provost plays once more with the grammar and the codes of (Hollywood) cinema. With a limited number of images, an absorbing soundtrack and a minimal story line, the artist tries to stimulate the viewers’ imagination to the maximum. Moving Stories strings together some four fragments of flying passenger airplanes. Gleaming in the sunlight, they glide high above the clouds...

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KALÈS

Laurent Van Lancker
An initimate and immersive perspective on the 'Jungle of Calais', evoked by a polyphony of men, stories and feels. A sensory journey through the daily life of migrants, characterised by survival strategies.A film of wind and despair, of fire and solidarity, of hope and hell...

JACK

Roy Villevoye
A meeting of a chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) with a camouflaged German helmet from World War I....

SAME RIVER TWICE / DEUX FOIS LE MÊME FLEUVE

Amir Borenstein - Effi Weiss
In 1869, John McGregor, a Scottish adventurer and explorer, set out on a journey along the Jordan River from the river source to the Sea of Galilee. As he gazed down from the northern reaches of the Jordan he wrote: "To say the very least of this scene, it was at any rate pretty. What it would seem if bereft of its holy associations and remembrance of a hundred armies that came this way [.....

FABRICA/BRIGHTON - DAY 10 RELOADED

Claude Cattelain
Tirelessly pushing back the waves attacking the shore....

FACTS AND GESTURES VOL. 1

Messieurs Delmotte
’Facts and Gestures Vol. 1’ is a compilation tape. The different parts can also be ordered separately...

IJSBREKER 09: WOENSDAGAVONDKOORTS: LET'S DANCE

Jef Cornelis - Jackie Claeys - Mark De Geest - Karel Schoetens
An edition of ’Ijsbreker’ on rolling dancing movements, taking a look at the widest range of forms, including cha cha cha, quickstep, tap dancing and the Chinese art of movement TaiChi Tao...