COLLECTIE

BABULIA [SECOND CHAPTER OF INSTALLATION, FRENCH VERSION]

Nora Martirosyan
"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...

NEMAWASHI CACAHUÈTE (A-SIDE)

Charley Case
The work of Charley Case is often based on a binary notion. This video is constituted by a two-part form, modelled after a peanut. It is the biotope of pairs of organisms, uprooted bodies evolving around each other, cherishing each other ephemerally or ultimately melting into an intangible unity...

IJSBREKER 06: FILM OF GEEN FILM

Eric Blanckaert - Jackie Claeys - Freddy Coppens - Mark De Geest
This time the programme ‘Ijsbreker’ explores the depths beyond the rather quiet surface of Dutch-language film – from Flanders as well as from the Netherlands...

BALLOON MAN

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte arrives at the scene, which is located in a park, wearing a costume covered with balloons. Fiercely he starts to pierce them with two needles. With each balloon that is punctured, his appearance becomes more visible. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...

AU BALCON DE TITI

Yasmina Benari
After 11 years in jail and a life spent hoping to see a free and fairly ruled Egypt, Titi alias Albert Arrié witnesses 2011 riots from his own balcony. He is 81. The film follows Titi over the course of two years, as hope turns to dust and present meets the past. At Titi's Balcony is a voyage, oscillating between inner and outer worlds...

VITA NOVA

Vincent Meessen
In his famous essay Mythologies (1957), Roland Barthes demystified the French colonial imperialism by means of a photograph that appeared on the cover of Paris-Match. This picture, that became an icon of modern criticism, shows a colonial cadet on guard.Vita Nova unveils the biographical ghost underneath the surface of this mythical picture...

THE CONTENT OF THE STATE

Grace Schwindt
A two screen installation video piece. Screen 1: The Content of the State is Family, but also Law, Health, Religion, Jew, German, Nation, Race, People, Human Kind, Ancestor, Men, We, You (plural), You (singular). A convergence to and distancing from a document (“Explanatory Leaflet for Those Getting Married”, published in Germany in approx...

SPACES THESIS PART 3 (SUMMER 1)

Joëlle Tuerlinckx

PROPELLER

Roy Villevoye
Somewhere in the jungle op Papua lies an old propeller.It is an important object for the small Papuan tribe that lives with it.How did it get there?Through the stories of the sister of a deceased American missionary, a Papuan cultural chief and an aged American former pilot the enigma of the propeller is slowly being unraveled in this film...

REGARDING THE PAIN OF OTHERS

Ken Kobland
In response to BLM events and to the whole world of injustice, slaughter and abuse... a small comment....