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TOPIC II

Pascal Baes
The French film theorist André Bazin used to consider film as a spell of time. He spoke triumphantly of a victory on the irreversibility and the transitoriness of life. Baes’ ‘Topic I & II’ (the painterly quality of its dusky images is for a good reason reminiscent of Francis Bacon’s strokes) seem to question these transcendent views on cinematography...

A DAY FOR CAKE AND ACCIDENTS

Steve Reinke - Jessie Mott
Reinke continues to explore the quirky possibilities of the animation film, collaborating once again with Jessie Mott, who delivers her idiosyncratic drawings, paintings and collages, plus also wrote the accompanying texts. References to cartoons and comics are once more evident, though Reinke stays somewhat of a league of its own...

THE DARK GALLERIES

Nicolas Provost
A fascinating hall of mirrors through a montage of film noir scenes where the actors face a painted portrait. This perfect blend of cinema and painting was commissioned to supplement a book study. Provost exploits the rules of editing to create an imaginary museum visit...

MAMA BRAZIL

Luc Gobyn
Mama Brazil is a triptic travelmovie about the memorial (1994-2004) of the dead of Ayrton Senna. Each movie is a description of one weekend. 1. Belgium Senna Club is going from Brussels to Imola Italie. 2. A view of the Foundation Ayrton Senna and cemetery Morumbi, Sao Paulo Brasil. 3. Visiting of the Formule One Grand Prix of Brazil, Sao Paulo....

Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist

SILENT LETTERS

Mira Sanders
Silent letter is divided into six monitors. Five of them present a video sequence in which lines of sharing, contours, observation, positioning (1 x n) in the landscape, urban space, and the artist studio, are introduced. Each video, inscribed with a date, delivers the story of a foreign observer. This story is subtitled on a black screen...

SMOKE

Roy Villevoye
My new film Smoke on which I worked over the past half year or so, tells the story of my very good (Asmat-)friend Ndo, who got blind as a young boy. And how eventually he got new eyesight. It also tells of friendship and efforts made because of this. Of hope and loss. And of confusion dealing with all this and the unexpected paths life takes...

LEWITT HESSE RICHARD SILVER

Frances Richard - Shelly Silver
The assignment was to make a gift for the artist Sol Lewitt (1927-2007). Legendarily generous to other artists, Lewitt exchanged works with anyone who sought him out, from famous peers to admirers who sent him unsolicited objects and images. Filmmaker Shelly Silver asked her close friend, writer Frances Richard, to collaborate by contributing text for a short film...

AMAZING GRACE

André Colinet
Colinet deals in his work with subjects and people that can be related to his own environment. In essence this video deals with man in general and the artists in particular, a fascination that exceeds space and time...

AU QUART DE TOUR

Antonin De Bemels
In ’Au quart de tour’ a character moves through a black image. Because of the musical editing in De Bemels’s typical stroboscope-like and fragmentary style it seems as if the character moves about hectically, though in reality he hardly moves foreward at all....

IN LIMBO

Simon Arazi
A satirical homage to contemporary propaganda doctrine, this film consists entirely of intercepted American satellite feeds: unfiltered and raw live-footage of news as well as corporate and governmental broadcasts, destined for the employees and trainees of multinational companies and law enforcement institutions...