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MELENCOLIA, EEN HOMMAGE NON-STOP
Stefaan DecostereAn essay which is at the same time a very personal homage to cinema and the history of visual art. Using early film footage as illustration, Decostere unfolds his reflecting piece in a setting that calls to mind pictures by Escher and Magritte...
THE PORTERS
Sarah VanagtFlemish filmmaker Sarah Vanagt asks young people around Brussels to play a well-known European memory game, in which players must repeat and then add to an ever-growing list of items that they would take with them on a trip...
MELT UMBRELLA
Messieurs DelmotteIn a rural landscape Delmotte sets fire to a black umbrella covered in oil. Then he leaves its metal carcass behind. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...
LA VIE POLITIQUE DES BELGES
Jan BucquoyThe fifth full feature project of Jan Bucquoy fits in with an encompassing concept of ‘looking at Belgium in a specific way’. In this documentary he follows the 1999 election campaign of two mini parties. On the one hand there is Vivant, the party of Roland Duchâtelet, with a central topic of the right to a basic income for all...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 76. MICROSCOPE
Steve ReinkeWhenever I look into a microscope, I feel like I’m looking inside of something. A barrier seems to have been broken....
NEAR AND FAR / NOW AND THEN
Ken KoblandA two-part film, one part unedited camera footage of a late Autumn to Winter woods, and the other a highly manipulated blue-screen re-photography process. Each part mimics the action of the other. Each is involved with a background-foreground, motion-to-still image juxtaposition: with the whole to the part, the arrested moment to the one just gone, the nostalgia of space and time. (https://www...
THE BIG TIRE
Messieurs DelmotteA man in a wheelchair is hiding behind a huge tire of a tractor. Second part of a series of sequences that are the result of a meeting between Messieurs Delmotte and artists with a mental disability. It leads to unexpected situations and poetic performances. Messieurs Delmotte made this performance and video project during an artistic residency at CEC La Hesse (Vielsalm in Belgium)...
STILL
Michel LorandSTILL is filmed in the curve of a motorway tunnel. The film, shot entirely in black and white, begins with the ringing sound of a gong, which takes several minutes to fade out. Together with the dying echoes of the instrumental sound, the images slow down as well, until the frame seems to freeze at the end of the film....
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 43. VISION (WITH BIRDS)
Steve ReinkeI had a vision - it wasn’t a dream because I was awake. My father was dragging my mother into the forest by her hair....
THREE SITTERS: NORMAN, BRIAN, FRANCES
Rebecca Jane ArthurWhere we place our chairs at home defines us as our lives grow around them with the things that receive our attention and form our habitats. As the focal point for attention and observation in these portraits, each chair is a motif for setting one’s place in the world and each habitat is explored as a construction, dictated by presence and absence...
