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DISSONANT
Manon de BoerIn Dissonant, Manon de Boer films dancer Cynthia Loemij while the latter dances for about 10 minutes to Eugène Ysaÿe’s 3 sonates for violin solo – a piece that holds vivid memories for her. The camera follows her every movement. A physical time limit, namely the 3-minute duration of one 16-mm film roll, interrupts the camera’s continued movement...
POLYFONISTEN DEEL 1
Stefaan DecosterePolyphonic music developed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the courts and religious centres of Europe, and was a method of composition whereby the various voices were treated as wholly or partly separate from each other. In Polyfonisten, an identical line of thought is expressed in a mirror-like perspective of history as seen through the eyes of today...
INCIDENT. EINE ANNÄHERUNG
Andreas BrehmerA work using text, music and fragments of photography. An emotionless computer voice quotes from a German grammar manual, as the text appears simultaneously on the bottom of the screen. At the same time the image systematically and meticulously explores the painting of a landscape. Elements are related to one another: the rhythm of the image, the spoken and the written words...
UNTITLED PART 1: EVERYTHING AND NOTHING
Jayce SalloumPart 1 of “untitled”, an ongoing videotape with no predetermined closure presents an intimate dialogue that weaves back and forth between representations of a figure (of resistance) and subject, with Soha Bechara ex-Lebanese National Resistance fighter in her Paris dorm room after release from captivity in El-Khiam torture and interrogation centre (S...
TENNIS
Valérie MannaertsSomeone is running, camera at hand, crisscross across the San Marco square in Venice; meanwhile the other hand is bouncing a tennis ball against the ground. The image, filmed in Super 8 format, juggles with the way we see things. The hand, the ball, passing pigeons, the shadows and the lines at the site, blend together in a crossfire of movements...
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - MEDICO
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique AhrimanA female representative tells the story of the founder of ’techni medico’. Images of a bald man and a cat scan of a human brain rotate on the screen, along with the random TV images that Bonnemaison and de la Casinière regularly use in the series ’Video à la chaîne’....
DAGBOEK VAN EEN KRANKZINNIGE
Jef Cornelis“Dagboek van een krankzinnige” (Diary of a Madman) is a television adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s eponymous short story. This classic story of modern Russian literature consists of diary entries from Aksenty Ivanovich Popryshyn, a low-ranking civil servant who lived under the repressive government of Tsar Nicholas I...
TOKYO-PICNIC
Pascal BaesThe setting is Tokyo-Sinjuku, towards the end of the month of May. Baes edits microscopic images of blossoming flora and fauna and urbane turbulence in a spastic stream of wriggling shapes and colours. The soundtrack of abrasive sounds and scouring textures complements the atmosphere of confusion and anxiety....









