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LINGUA IGNOTA

Edith Dekyndt
Hildegard von Bingen lived during the 12th Century. She was a Benedictine and a precursor, a poet and a doctor, who invented a language that she alone could write and speak, the lingua ignota. This language who has survived thanks to the description given by the Holy Roman Catholic Church in an eponymous book is the title of a video of Edith Dekyndt which features a hand mirror...

LEÇON D’OBJET (OBJECT LESSON)

Herman Asselberghs
Leçon d’objet talks about the camera used to make the film. Its title refers to the proven teaching method of presenting an everyday object by naming its characteristics and properties. The close observation of a physical object can then lead to a better understanding of abstract concepts. The object here on display is the Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 4K...

ONE BY ONE

Marie Voignier - Vassilis Salpistis
One by one is a fifteen minute experimental film-collage, which is composed by a number of testimonies and texts relating to historical events and crisis in Greece. The assemblage converges the exploration of contemporary applications of the function of myth. To a great extend consisting of filmed photographs, even when in motion the images of the film suggest the stillness of a stable shot...

THE LONELY

Hubert Marécaille
Pending a response to his ad placed in a newspaper in the hope of meeting a woman, a computer worker goes about his everyday activities : reading computer magazines, eating, watching TV, visiting his aunt in search of affection, spending time at the cemetery with his deceased parents, meditatively ironing his colthes, celebrating his birthday thinking of an unhappy colleague, jealous of his newly ...

ART NOUVEAU IN BRUSSEL

Jef Cornelis
This is a small documentary on Art Nouveau in Brussels. Some examples are given, such as the Solvay Hotel built by the architect Horta and the pictures of Giovanni Wieser from the exhibition catalogue ‘Art Nouveau: Minor Masters’. Original broadcast date: 24/12/1971...

THE BIG TIRE

Messieurs Delmotte
A man in a wheelchair is hiding behind a huge tire of a tractor. Second part of a series of sequences that are the result of a meeting between Messieurs Delmotte and artists with a mental disability. It leads to unexpected situations and poetic performances. Messieurs Delmotte made this performance and video project during an artistic residency at CEC La Hesse (Vielsalm in Belgium)...

EFFORT SQUARE

Aglaia Konrad
A single-channel adaptation of the ’Tomorrow Square’ installation, consistsing of two projection screens, each of them show eight respective hours of metropolitan cityscapes...

THE RETURN OF THE WITNESS

Ria Pacquée
In "The Return of the Witness" Ria Pacquée distils her concern for the passing infra-ordinary world into a series of probing contrasts between the chaotic thoroughfares of King’s Cross St Pancras and the barren railways lands nearby. “Following the crowd will lead you to destruction!” shouts a woman at Speakers’ Corner...

GEESTELIJKE GEZONDHEIDSZORG (3): "ALS JULLIE VRIENDELIJK BUITENGAAN DAN IS DAT BIJ ONS OOK OVER"

Jef Cornelis
Original broadcast date: 18/03/1975...

LIED VAN MIJN LAND - DEEL 1: DAS RHEINGOLD

Frank Theys - Koen Theys
This is the first part of the diptych Lied van mijn Land (’Song of my Soil’), based on Richard Wagner’s operas ’Der Ring der Nibelungen’ and ’Parcifal’. In ’Der Ring der  Nibelungen’, an interpretation of a germanic mythological epic, the composer associates power with the possession of gold...