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Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel Bonnemaison
Joëlle de la Casinière herself, barefoot against an abandoned and ravaged metropolitan background, promotes her book ’Absolument nécessaire’ (‘An Emergency Book’) during an interview/happening with a broadcast delay. “Nothing is true, everything is permitted”. In the end the books are covered in graffiti like subway carriages....

HET GOUDEN KALF / LE VEAU D'OR

Jan Vromman
“Het Gouden Kalf” (“The Golden Calf”) is the report of a performance held in 2002. During the “Top of Laeken”, an anti-globalist manifestation in Brussels, the Golden Calf - a sculpture on a carrying board in true size - was carried in a procession to the European Parliament. The Golden Calf is, of course, the symbol for the adoration of power and money...

LEOPOLD II - OOSTENDE

Luc Gobyn
One minute view of the equestrean statue of Leopold II in Ostend, Belgium....

I WATCHED THE WHITE DOGS OF THE DAWN

Els Dietvorst
Sound. A polyphony of wind, breaking waves, shrieking gulls, and rattling ships. The sea: a place of memories for those who survive her, a mother who confronts us with the powers of nature. Circulating and all-encompassing. Beneath her horizon there is only darkness and mystery. The separation of air and water creates a different world. A place where other rules and other laws apply...

1. L’INFIRMIÈRE CANNIBALE

Lucile Desamory
A nurse is stealing corpses in order to eat up their brain. The hospital's staff eventually finds out about it. The cannibal nurse is brutally killed and buried in the garden…...

TEREZIN

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
A collage of photographs showing nude women holding their hands before their sexes. The images have been digitally enhanced. The soundtrack contains German religious music. "Beginning of the project Sex and Technology. Re-use of the image of women in one particular mass-medium: the nude-press. Terezin uses women who cover their sex whilst looking at the one that looks...

A] PART, Peter Downsbrough, 2009 © the artist & producer

A] PART

Peter Downsbrough
A]PART is a video project filmed in the Citroën Building on the Place de l’Yser/IJzerplein In Brussels. Downsbrough directs camera through different levels of the building. Sometimes the camera focusses on what is happening outside: traffic... Only buildings, cars and structures are seen...

LES 8 HOMMES QUI MARCHENT

Joëlle Tuerlinckx

A LA RENCONTRE DE MARCEL HANOUN

Bert Beyens
The French filmmaker Marcel Hanoun during the filming of "Loin-près de l'amour, loin-près de la mort" (1993). The subject of that film was "les amants de Sarajevo", the young couple of mixed etnic background shot by a sniper in that city. Their corpses were left dead for a week on a bridge....

ATTICA

Manon de Boer
In collaboration with several musicians, de Boer staged a performance for camera of Frederic Rzewski’s 1972 composition ‘Attica’ as well as the related work, ‘Coming Together’, also composed in 1972. Rzewski, who was living in New York at the time, composed ‘Attica’ in a circular structure of euphoric crescendo and denouement...