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BEGIN BEGAN BEGUN

Sarah Vanagt
April in Rwanda: the month of mourning in the new Rwandan calendar. While the country is commemorating the 10th anniversary of the genocide, children play games. Filmmaker Sarah Vanagt spent the Easter holiday in a "children’s republic", governed by genocide orphans and refugee children growing up in the war-torn border zone between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo...

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Peter Downsbrough
With his videos Downsbrough creates natural portraits of urban environments. Everyday surroundings are observed, dissected and transformed into architectural illustrations, with a proper sense of order and chaos. In long, steady shots and travellings space is reduced and abstracted into minimalist constructions, simultaneously they assume identifiability...

DE ZEEMANNEN EN HET SCHIP

Harald Thys
In ’The Sailors and the Ship’ two former sailors muse on their past from their apartment with a view on the sea wall. A male storyteller’s voice recounts their tale. Once upon a time they were brave seamen on a beautiful ship, led by a fantastic captain. But the death of their beloved captain caused the two man so much pain and sorrow, that they never spoke again...

Shelly Silver, Today., 1978-1979 © the artist

TODAY.

Shelly Silver

LIGHT DISPLACEMENT

Meggy Rustamova
The starting point for this film were Meggy Rustamova’s many attempts to photograph a tree in Hiroshima, Japan. Aspects of war, escapism and fear are expressed in this audiovisual trip. The atomic bomb in Japan and the current nuclear threat between the US and North Korea is translated into the white, overexposed photographs, which fade into complete 'white-out' in the film...

COVERING #4: LAMPSHADES

Luc Compernol
‘Covering # 4: Lampshades’ is the fourth part in the ‘coverings’-series of Luc Compernol. In part one the term ‘covering’ stood for ‘covering a song’ (more precisely ‘Lovin’ you’ by Minnie Riperton). From the second part on, ‘covering’ was broadened to one of its other meanings, namely observing, watching closely...

THINK ABOUT WOOD, THINK ABOUT METAL

Manon de Boer
In a series of films in which we discover the portrait of a woman, Manon de Boer prolongs her experiments during the meeting with Robyn Schulkowsky. In Italy and then Germany, the rotation of the lens leads us in a false loop where the visible is metamorphosed by the audible...

INTER[POSE, Peter Downsbrough, 2009 © the artist & producer

INTER[POSE

Peter Downsbrough
inter[POSE is a video project shot off-season in Deal, Kent (UK). It focuses on the town’s shoreline and the 1950s modernist pier (the last to be built in the UK)...

Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist

SILENT LETTER 27042008

Mira Sanders
The first ’Silent Letter’ was written on April 24th, 2008. Officials are obstrucing passing people: they are not allowed to walk across a public square. However, an introductory note by the artist is dated 2007...

CONTAINER 09: OVER ROES

Jef Cornelis
A fragment from Aldoux Huxley‘s ’The Doors of Perception’ is the starting-point for a reflection on intoxication. Intoxication might be perceived as one of the universal longings of mankind. The Romantic tradition of Baudelaire talks of “artificial paradises”, but outside the Western society intoxication has a much more ambivalent function than escapism alone...