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LE CORAN, ÇA JE NE CONNAIS PAS
Sven AugustijnenIn flashing black and white letters and backgrounds, the words from the sentence ‘Le Coran, ça je ne connais pas’ are flung upon the screen at various speeds. The viewer has to be careful not to be hypnotized by the message....
JOHNNY
Emilio López-MencheroJohnny is an independent video which is also part of the longer work Pare-brise série (1999). In this early video production, Emilio López-Menchero is concerned about the logic of statements of fact, time and the notion of waiting. Johnny is a sequence recorded with a steadycam through the windowpane of a stationary car...
ON L'APPELAIT PRÉSIDENT
Marie AndréA portrait of Alexandre André, one of the historical leaders of the Belgian Socialist party and the filmmaker’s uncle. Born in 1897 in the Borinage’s heart, he recalls different aspects of his political career, his childhood memories of Vincent Van Gogh as well as his relationship with King Baudoin....
S*CKMYP [LONG VERSION]
Kurt D'HaeseleerS*CKMYP drops the spectator in a world continuously bombarded with digital fragmentation bombs. People wander through a kaleidoscopic labyrinth of trembling bodies and mutating buildings until they are swallowed by a yawning void. Lost pixels nestle like parasites under the skin and drag them through an everyday world that looks strange beyond recognition...
THE MAKING OF JUSTICE
Sarah Vanhee"The Making of Justice" is a movie about seven prisoners working on the scenario for a crime film together with Sarah Vanhee. Like the main character in the film, they are all guilty of murder. To shape the story, they draw on their own experiences, ideas and desires...
BLACK BEHIND WHITE
Andreas BrehmerIn this video compilation, Brehmer toys around with words, images and sounds as in some sort of visual essay concerned with how we perceive things, how we describe them and how we deal with them. In order to understand what we see, a certain amount of belief in what we see is indispensable. Brehmer tests the associative imaginative powers of the spectator...
THE ROOT PROBLEM OF THE WORLD
Steve ReinkeThis is adapted from a two-channel video installation of the same name I presented at Birch Libralato in conjunction with the Images Festival in Toronto in 2011. The footage is from reel-to-reel video documentation of the lecture Joseph Beuys gave at NSCAD in 1976 on the occassion of his honorary degree...
PHILIPPE BERTELS
Angel VergaraThe author Philippe Bertels draws a distinction between the ’self-made men’ and the ’not self-made men’. Artists are part of the latter. While he is trying to answer, he becomes embroiled in an argument with his companions in a night garden, and asks Michel François for assistance, eventually entering into a discussion with him as well....
WE HAD FUN YESTERDAY
Marion GuillardWhen I was younger, I hated my body as much as I was obsessed by images of "Nature". On the one hand, I told myself they were sublime, and that's why they existed, and on the other, I felt that as a woman, if people didn't look at me, I'd disappear. The film runs around my character's experience...








