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Les films rêvés, 2009, Eric Pauwels © the artist

LES FILMS RÊVÉS

Eric Pauwels
In the work of the filmmaker, author and director Eric Pauwels (1953), cinema and life are inseparably intertwined. His documentaries, sometimes called ’half-films’, take on the role of memory, weaving fiction with ethnography and questioning the spectator’s impressions of the subject...

HEDENDAAGSE KERKENBOUW OP EEN KEERPUNT

Jef Cornelis
Inspired by the book ‘In een of ander huis, kerkbouw op een keerpunt’, in which Geert Beckaert reflects on modern church building as a critical function, a number of thinkers and writers, priests and architects (Renaat Braem, Godfried Danneels, Réné Geysen and Geert Beckaert himself) address religious patronage in architecture in the past and the present, architecture as ...

SONGDELAY

Joan Jonas
Towards the end of the 1960s Joan Jonas (1936) was one of the first visual artists who applied herself to performance in order to explore our perception of time and space. She mainly analysed the interaction between the body and its transformation through media, space and reception. She often incorporated the intrinsic technical possibilities of film and video in her live actions...

REMÈDES À L'ENNUI

Bernard Gigounon
Several short stories, in which everyday gestures and situations are presented and entwined using pieces of wood and string. A vision of sculpture through images and the ’deceit’ of images (magic?). A game on visual imagery, music, colour, depression, form and foolishness....

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 94. ANTS AND BEES

Steve Reinke
It seems to us that ants, like bees, are always working. But if you look closely, you’ll find that they take all kinds of breaks....

DES MORTS

Thierry Zéno
Zéno and his team made this experimental documentary on location in Mexico, the US, Belgium, South Korea, Thailand and Nepal. As the title indicates, the film focuses on the death, i.e. the deceased—and the living, who remain behind. The author refuses to comment: he wants the rituals and the participants to speak for themselves through the detached camera that merely records...

JONAS

Olivier Dekegel
A short portrait of and homage to the legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas, generally considered as one of the major exponents of the avant-garde movement in the American cinematic landscape of the 1950s and ‘60s...

IN LIMBO

Simon Arazi
A satirical homage to contemporary propaganda doctrine, this film consists entirely of intercepted American satellite feeds: unfiltered and raw live-footage of news as well as corporate and governmental broadcasts, destined for the employees and trainees of multinational companies and law enforcement institutions...

THE ROSES

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte goes to a public garden and with a pair of gardening shears he cuts all the roses from a rose bed. This work is part of the series What's Done, Evil's Done / Ce Qui est Fait, le Mal est Fait...

CONTAINER 01: OVER SENTIMENTALITEIT

Jef Cornelis
On the occassion of ‘het ontroerparcours’ (course of emotions), a series of articles in which a number of Flemish people were questioned about their subjective definition and experience of ‘emotion’, the Container-panel decides to investigate the term...