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HUMAN TRAFFIC LIGHT
Messieurs DelmotteA short video in which Monsieur Delmotte is filmed next to a traffic light on a busy street. When the light, indicating if pedestrians can cross, jumps to green, he crosses the street with his face and hands painted in green, imitating the icon on the light...
Shelly Silver, Today., 1978-1979 © the artist
TECHNOCALYPS - DEEL 3: THE DIGITAL MESSIAH
Frank TheysTechnocalyps is a 3 part documentary about ‘transhumanism’, an ideology assuming that we approach an era where humans, as we know them, are no longer the driving force of civilization. All technological developments seem to converge to one main goal: to overcome humanity, to try and create something transhuman...
SAD DISCO FANTASIA
Steve ReinkeWhich gives the piggy bank more pleasure: the insertion of individual coins into the little slotted notch in its head or the unplugging of the round hole in its bottom that lets them all drop out? Or possibly the slow build of weight and pressure as the coins collect in the huge, hollow gut....
PANIQUE AU VILLAGE, ÉPISODE 7 : LA CHASSE AU RENARD
Vincent Patar - Stéphane AubierIt is a beautiful day and Cowboy and Indian ride out fox hunting. The fox is hard to catch, yet after a few attempts Cowboy manages to get him. But Cowboy’s success annoys Indian, and the resulting disputed leads to a wild chase and a fierce fight with an enraged bison. Another joyous adventure from the world of papier mâché, cardboard, plasticine and plastic figures....
LA DANSE DES QUAIS / DE KAAIENDANS
Rébecca FruitmanProduced thanks to a range of local partners, the Super 8 Project explores the audiovisual memory of the historic Quay district located in and around the former Port of Brussels...
It’s not my memory of it: three recollected documents, Julia Meltzer & David Thorne, 2003 © the artists & producer
IT’S NOT MY MEMORY OF IT: THREE RECOLLECTED DOCUMENTS
Julia Meltzer - David ThorneReferencing specific historical records as memories which reappear in moments of danger, the work addresses the logic of the bureaucracy of secrecy in the current climate of heightened security. Through unacknowledged film, reassembled documents and images, three lost narratives of CIA activity in Iran, Yemen and the USSR between 1974 and 2002 are retold...
COUNTDOWN TO NOTHING
Lucile DesamoryAn “autobiographical self-activation musical around hypnosis and friendship”. Made in collaboration with musician Kevin Blechdom, the musical “Countdown to Nothing” tells the story of two women meeting around a tree, somewhere, maybe in a park. One of them is flying around, can’t put her feet on the ground while the other is tangled in flesh web...
Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike. Marx/ Eisenstein/ Das Kapital, 2008, Alexander Kluge © the artist & producers
NACHRICHTEN AUS DER IDEOLOGISCHEN ANTIKE. MARX/ EISENSTEIN/ DAS KAPITAL
Alexander KlugeEighty years after Sergei Eisenstein’s plans to make Karl Marx’s ’Das Kapital’ into a film, the German film-maker Alexander Kluge (1932) breathed new life into the project. The starting point was Eisenstein’s intention to turn Marx’s seminal work into a movie and add a montage inspired by James Joyce (who Eisenstein met in 1929)...
