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SHOPPING CENTER WIJNEGEM, 2000
Jan KempenaersIn a very down-to-earth style Jan Kempenaers visualizes the interior and exterior of the Wijnegem Shopping Centre (ca ten kilometres east of Antwerp). The film consists of a strict rhythm of scores of photographs, presented without any soundtrack. Typical for Kempenaers’ style is the high camera view...
DE VENNOTEN / LES SOCIÉTAIRES
Vincent MeessenIn Kino, an ancient forgotten colony, King Chour has just passed away. Which of his two sons, Talou or Oumarou, will take his place on the throne ? An African fairytale format is brought in to corrupt documentary imagery, revealing its multiple, related meanings...
LILIANE VERTESSEN
Jef Cornelis“Liliane Vertessen wants to stay young forever. And she wants to be world famous,” Régine Clauwaert claims in this edition of Kunst-Zaken, the art magazine of the Belgian public broadcaster BRT in the 1980s. Cornelis filmed Vertessen at her home in Hasselt. He edited this short portrait to the music of Tim Buckley’s Sweet Surrender, raw blues the artist chose herself...
Hervé Doyen, 2003-2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
HERVÉ DOYEN
Angel VergaraHervé Doyen explains how he, as the mayor of Jette, relates himself to art and culture. Filmed at the Atelier 340, Doyen states that a mayor should ensure that all ways of expression are given opportunity, without him interfering with what is actually being created....
ROOKGORDIJN BOVEN BRUSSEL (HET INNO-DOSSIER HEROPEND)
Bram Van PaesschenThe cause of Europe’s largest department store fire remains unsolved even today. On May 22, 1967 the Brussels branch of the chain ‘A l’Innovation’ burned down to its foundations. The reason for the fire, which claimed more than three hundred lives, was arson, as far as one can tell today...
THE FLAG LEFT ON THE MOON IS MAYBE THE MOST EXPENSIVE PIECE OF FABRIC IN THE UNIVERSE
Edith DekyndtThe flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is filmed at dusk. Gradually the dark flag seen against a lighter sky becomes lighter against a darkened sky....
FRITERIE (SÉRIE): MADE IN B. – B. BY NIGHT – GOING TO B. – B TO ME
Emilio López-MencheroA series of video sequences on Emilio López-Menchero’s favourite chips shops. The work was presented in the frame of the exhibition FOODART-PLACES IN BETWEEN (2000) when the city of Bergen, Norway, was European Capital of Culture...
WAAROVER MEN NIET SPREEKT 1: HOME SWEET HOME
Jef Cornelis’Home Sweet Home’ is a manifesto against the dictatorship of the bourgeois notion of the ideal home. ’I rented a house with a garden’ is still a current slogan, even if people buy apartments, villas and country-houses. People attempt to hide themselves in their homes and as a consequence a kind of social isolation arises that prevents the necessary community spirit...
WHITE CLOUD
Emmanuel Van der AuweraIn a remote industrial site in Inner Mongolia, miners extract a strategic resource essential to our way of life under dramatic human and environmental conditions. This is where 80% of rare earth minerals, essential to the manufacture of digital technologies, come from. A miner working on the site shares his thoughts on his life and working conditions...
