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MAGNUM BEGYNASIUM BRUXELLENSE PART 1/2

Boris Lehman
‘Magnum Begynasium Bruxellense’ is a living chronicle of the inhabitants of the Béguinage area of Brussels, so named because it is located over the site of the old béguinage. Conceived of as an encyclopaedic inventory, the film is composed of around 30 chapters interlinked like so many pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, or an anthill of numerous and overlapping galaxies...

ICH WAR HITLERS BODYGUARD

Alexander Kluge
In the media, security experts often expressed their amazement at the fact that Adolf Hitler was never shot at during his excursions and many speeches. Compared with current protection systems and technologies, or the ways in which heads of state are escorted by hordes of bodyguards, the security measures surrounding Hitler were rather poor and often improvised...

CONDUCTURIS

Mira Sanders - Cédric Noël
CONDUCTURIS is a film installation project that, by use of the cinematic codes of the road movie, speculates on the results of an investigation into the construction of an artificial brain and the required infrastructure in the Swiss landscape....

VENISE 10

Claude Cattelain
The camera, hanged underneath a temporary footbridge, records the vibrations of the structure and the ambient sound....
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LE SEMEUR DE PENSÉES

Jacques Lennep
Lennep goes undercover in Monet’s garden in Giverny. Without anyone noticing, he sows extra flowers....
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DJ REVERSE

Messieurs Delmotte
In ’DJ Reverse’ Messieurs Delmotte parodies an icon of popular culture and music: the deejay. He puts on a record that plays a disco tune. Then Delmotte starts dancing and scratching the record badly, screaming ’baby baby baby’. This work is part of the series FränZ ünd KoFöN...

LILI

An van. Dienderen
In a TV studio a girl named Lili (played by Belgian actress Maaike Neuville) is asked to serve as a so-called China Girl. China Girls, used in cinema history since the 1920’s, are women with Caucasian skin who are filmed alongside a colour-chart in order to adjust the colours of the film. They have no dialogues to memorize or characters to impersonate...

STUPA (BURIAL MOUND)

Ken Kobland
’Stupa’ was an unrestricted assignment from the French broadcasting station ’La Sept’. It invited film and video artists to make a remarkable, one hour, uninterrupted tape. An aerial shot filmed from a low-flying aircraft provides one continuous view of an urban/suburban landscape...
La banque, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist La banque, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

BANQUE

Angel Vergara
’Banque’ is a montage of historical images of Belgian banking house and media excerpts of the Fortis-crisis that sweept across Belgium and the Netherlands in 2008 and 2009. Angel Vergara sketches historical and contemporary cross-references between the artistic and financial worlds in Belgium...
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END CREDITS

Ken Kobland
Filmed over a few nights in the late Ron Vawter’s dressing room during the show ‘Roy Cohn/Jack Smith’ at the Kitchen, NYC, in October 1993, this tape is a small but poignant homage to an extraordinary talent....