COLLECTIE

Something about today, Mekhitar Garabedian, 2008 © the artist & producer

SOMETHING ABOUT TODAY

Mekhitar Garabedian
Against a background of orchestral music by Sibelius, photographic images are presented with the colour drained. At first the screen seems to be one solid block of cream, but slowly some colour is faded in, providing outlines of shapes. As the viewer ascertains the outline of buildings, words are imposed over the image - a contents page is slowly provided...

CROSSING ASIDE

Mira Sanders - Cédric Noël
The film crossing aside is conceived as a phenomenological portrait of the Annie Vande Wiele pedestrian and bicycle bridge. It approaches the bridge not only as something people live with and use, but as something that itself lives and makes a space...

THE LEAVES

Messieurs Delmotte
The protagonist is cycling in the street. He slows down with his right foot, scraping on the dead leaves along the kerb. Collecting a small heap of leaves he comes to a halt. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...

Leçon de Vie, 1995, Boris Lehman © the artist

LEÇON DE VIE

Boris Lehman
This film consists of poetic and philosophical variations on the theme of Paradise lost, or the loss of innocence necessary to reach a state of knowing. Here, a selection of men, women and children try to converse alone with nature, with water, the sky, flowers, trees, insects.....

Light Showers, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist

LIGHT SHOWERS

Peter Finnemore
The artist lights up some fireworks and then, under his umbrella, he enjoys a rain of sparks....

SMALL LIES, BIG TRUTH

Shelly Silver
"In turn funny, disturbing and glisteningly sensual, small lies, Big Truth is a video about love, relationships and the joys and banality of sex in the late 20th century. It also touches on such issues as morality, voyeurism, nature vs. culture and power, as eight people are heard reading, in the first person, from the testimony of Monica S...

RE-PAIN

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
Colors, shapes and numbers slowly change, transform, according to a fixed pattern. While the sound gets slower and slower, more abstract. The discrepancy between the two movements, the movement of the images and the movement of the sound, creates tranquility and detachment. The experience is an anti-pole of negativeness in melancholy...

TELECOLOR INFLAMMABLE

Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel Bonnemaison
The famous act of the "poète dans une machine à laver" (the poet in a washing machine). Short promotional film in comical mode for a (back then) very recently finished book by Joëlle de La Casinière, Population active. Excerpts of it are read in different settings, accompanied by the beautiful and enchanting music of the "Fire-Stone" mantra....

HENK VISCH

Jef Cornelis
Original broadcast date: 02/11/1985...

IN COMPLETE WORLD

Shelly Silver
In Complete World is a feature length documentary shot on the streets of New York City...