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Anouk De Clercq
A small white cross moves against an otherwise black, empty screen, then multiplies itself to become two crosses that dance around the screen together, only to then disappear altogether. The text was written and whispered by Anouk De Clercq herself. The music that one hears in the background was composed by Anton Aeki...

TERRE-ÎLE

Dino Secchi - Free3 - Shedar Secchi - Charley Case
A town in Belgium disappears over the horizon after a flood. In this way nature rebels against human greed....
Avant-garde citizens: Mpia’s story, 2007, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson © the artists Avant-garde citizens: Mpia’s story, 2007, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson © the artists

AVANT-GARDE CITIZENS

Libia Castro - Ólafur Ólafsson
’Avant-garde Citizens’ steps into the lives and identities of refugees in the world today, using the Netherlands as a departure point. The project is a series of video-portraits of people who have become enmeshed in the viciously complicated and torturously slow Dutch immigration and asylum system...

DE GESCHIEDENIS VAN MR. KROLL

Harald Thys
With his partner, Mr Kroll collects scrap metal along the road. He is very surprised to see what people throw away. In his workshop he tinkers with the broken parts he has found. In the meantime a voice-over relates how the same Mr Kroll has brutally mutilated and murdered a number of young girls....

HABITER LES FISSURES

Miléna Desse
In Brussels, a former factory bears witness to an intense and now bygone industrial era. Today, it is home to spontaneous flora that has found its way into the cracks in the bricks and concrete, as well as to the people who live there and create alternatives to what this city has to offer...

UNTITLED (B&W)

Valérie Mannaerts
This video consists of four uncut sequences of light, distance and looking. First the fingers of two hands are forming different shapes. They seem to be indicating an amount of space, distance or mass. Or maybe they are telling the viewer what he or she should look at? Secondly images of the broad sky are recorded...
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MOUTH AND RED CHICKENS

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte tosses around chestnut chickens with his mouth. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

THE FRENCH WALL / LE MUR

Thomas Bernardet
The video camera records a white stone wall in the South of France in full frame....
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FACE À FACE (PART OF PAS DE DANSE)

Eric Pauwels
‘Face à face’ is considered by many to be nothing more than a “simple recording” of a performance by Michèle Anne De Mey. The spirit of the performance is certainly sublimely reproduced, but there is more. ‘Face à face’ is to some extent the synthesis of Pauwels’s earlier experiments...
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DOCUMENT F098

Vidéoconférence
Vidéoconférence is a research team made up of video makers and historians. Their purpose is the recovery, restoration and display of documents that link up poetical truth with beauty. ’Document F098’ is the last reel of rushes shot by a Russian journalist during autumn/winter of 1942...