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MOSCOW X
Ken KoblandA camcorder diary and chronicle of public opinion filmed in Moscow during the fall of 1990, a time of huge political an economic changes in the former Soviet Union. The tape reveals Kobland’s own fascination with the diversity and complexity of the Russian’s reactions to such changes...
I WATCHED THE WHITE DOGS OF THE DAWN
Els DietvorstSound. A polyphony of wind, breaking waves, shrieking gulls, and rattling ships. The sea: a place of memories for those who survive her, a mother who confronts us with the powers of nature. Circulating and all-encompassing. Beneath her horizon there is only darkness and mystery. The separation of air and water creates a different world. A place where other rules and other laws apply...
DÉLIRIUM VIDÉO 1
Jacques LennepThe artist speaks in front of a steady camera about his passion for art and specifically the medium of video. In his speech, references to the history of contemporary art pass by. In a second scene, he goes to the market of Charleroi buying a living rabbit that he will prepare at home for a meal...
LÉNINE EN PENSANT
Sophie NysIn 2005, Sophie Nys travelled to Ulan-Ude, the capital of the mountainous Buryat Republic in eastern Siberia, to film the largest existing statue of Lenin, the founding father and first General Secretary and Premier of the Soviet Union. Only the statue’s monumental head was completed, and we see it from all angles, close up and further away, in Nys’ grainy super 8-film...
AU BALCON DE TITI
Yasmina BenariAfter 11 years in jail and a life spent hoping to see a free and fairly ruled Egypt, Titi alias Albert Arrié witnesses 2011 riots from his own balcony. He is 81. The film follows Titi over the course of two years, as hope turns to dust and present meets the past. At Titi's Balcony is a voyage, oscillating between inner and outer worlds...
LA VIE SEXUELLE DES BELGES 1950-1978
Jan BucquoyJan Bocquoy narrates the story of his sexual life to age 28, imagining his conception (parents drunk, the encounter lasting ten seconds) and reporting his first orgasm (at the hands of Eddy, in a beach-side caravan, as they watch Laurel and Hardy), his comparative experiences with girls, and his move from Harelbeck to Brussels...
BRING US TO OURSELVES, MIKHAÏL
Emmanuel Van der AuweraIn an airport somewhere, a puppet of Mikhaïl Gorbatchev gives a monologue in the dark, gripped by the threat of the catastrophe erupting outside. Powerless and unable to react, he awaits the creeping collapse of his world. Bring us to ourselves, Mikhaïl is a video-essay, somewhere in between a fiction-documentary and a filmed puppet-show...
La galerista y el farmaceutico, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
LA GALERISTA Y EL FARMACEUTICO
Angel VergaraWe can see a man and a woman. They are reading and looking into the camera. The onscreen image consists of two juxtaposed images with the same background, generating a mirroring or folded effect which is added to by the fact that both images include Vergara’s hand following the lines and shapes with a brush...
VIVA PARADIS
Isabelle TollenaereViva Paradis captures a moment in a land, Tunisia, in the midst of transformation. From an abandoned luxury hotel and the ruins of Carthage to the traces of the recent revolution. The fighting is over, but what now? From March 10-16, 2011, filmmaker Isabelle Tollenaere recorded the peace following the revolution, by making images of the tourism industry...
