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Charley Case
In this short film of a dance performance, Charley Case plays with showing and hiding, presentation and representation. In an industrial space the performers Violetta Todo and Roberto Olivan dance like in trance to the tunes of atmospheric electronic music. While Olivan dances, he projects onto his body a film with a projector that is fitted into a body harness he is wearing...

VENISE 4

Claude Cattelain
The waves of the Venice lagoon flood on the dock....

HOMME PORTANT

Boris Lehman
The man carrying his body, his reels of film, his bag and his old Nikon, is Boris Lehman, he’s also Sisyphus, Jesus Christ, and Ixion as told by Alfred Jarry in La Chandelle Verte. An essay on heaviness and lightness. The carrying man would like to fly, vanish into thin air, into light. When he meets another machine-man, who carries electronic pictures, his dream will come true...

LA CHAMELLE BLANCHE

Xavier Christiaens
What if Ulysses, returning from his travels, had found only indecipherable shreds, shards, dark and shifting landscapes, splintered vestiges of his past? A disturbing disorder reigns all around, putting eyes and ears in a constant state of expectation, prisoners of these fragments of a reality so gripping, obtuse, impossible to avoid and yet misleading, fleeing and opaque...

DE KLOK SLAAT VIJF: TEXTIELARBEIDER

Jef Cornelis
Some 200 years ago, spinning and weaving used to be a domestic industry. Women and children spun, the men wove. With the invention of the flying shuttle in the eighteenth century, weaving became industrialized. Some time later, in England a semi-mechanic spinning machine was invented. In Belgium, the town of Ghent was the main centre of the textile industry...

MISSION MONT DES ARTS

Sven Augustijnen
Sven Augustijnen was invited by the Koning Boudewijnstichting to follow the ‘Commissie Kunstberg’ on their numerous meetings and walks. For a number of years this commission has been striving for a revaluation of the Kunstberg (or Mont des Arts) in Brussels through a series of initiatives...

DÉLIRIUM VIDÉO 6

Jacques Lennep
Another part in this series of short sketches, consisting of recordings of performances that took place on different locations in Belgium and abroad. In Episode 6, we see the artist - amongst others - walking through the alps with a broken foot, filosophing in the royal passage of Ostend and on the beach and preparing a huge 'homard à la mayonaise'.  ...

PANIQUE AU VILLAGE, ÉPISODE 5 : LISE ET JAN

Stéphane Aubier - Vincent Patar
Two musical lowlifes arrive in the village, and they turn the place upside down, much to the displeasure of its inhabitants, who consequently show them to the door; however to no avail...

L'OISEAU CROQUÉ

Jacques Lennep
The work tells about an image of a grapevine that is so true to nature that birds crash into it....

NEARLY PRESENT, JUST PAST

Cel Crabeels
"If I were young, I would destroy a Dan Graham piece, I would smash the goddamn Dan Graham piece." (Dan Graham in an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2001) This subjective-documentary video is part of a project on the violent and thorough destruction of a pavilion by the American artist Dan Graham...