NEW TITLES
GEOGRAPHIES OF FREEDOM
Miguel Peres dos SantosThere’s an uncanny kind of shock value to hearing a friendly, old-timey television announcer speak of how the “simple people” of the Netherlands Antilles were rescued from “primitive living conditions” when large oil refineries appeared on the islands, ending their “deficient medical care and lack of hygiene...
BIRD IN ITALIAN IS UCCELLO
Gernot WielandGernot Wieland's new film, Bird in Italian is Uccello (2021), furthers his interest in psychological states and the constitution of belonging in different social contexts. Drawing upon Daphne du Maurier’s short story The Birds, and its subsequent cinematic adaptation, Bird in Italian is Uccello (re)enacts a theatrical production of the horror-thriller...
CONTAMINATE ME
Steve Reinke - Jessie MottThe small cruelties of a subliminal fog roll in. A pandemic thwarts intimacy. Perched from their little planets, this cast of wildly colorful creatures question their futures and navigate the longing for connection. This is the fifth collaboration between Jessie Mott and Steve Reinke....
LIBERATION RADIO
Esther JohnsonThis is Liberation Radio. In 1968, a group of American military deserters went to the North Vietnamese mission in Stockholm with one object in mind – to join the army they had been drafted to fight. Instead, they were recruited for the propaganda war – and use magnetic tape, pop music and political rhetoric to persuade other American servicemen to desert...
MOUNE Ô
Maxime Jean-Baptiste"I close my eyes. The crowd makes me smile, breaks my body, and that's the end". By presenting the festive events which escorted the projection of the film Jean Galmot aventurier by Alain Maline, where the father's filmmaker played a role, the images of Moune Ô reveal the survival of the colonial inheritance within a Western collective unconscious always marked of stereotypes...
THE MONK
Paulius SliaupaThe monk, evokes, in a poetic way, man's changing relationship with nature, the consequences this has on people's daily life and the feeling of loss and alienation this causes on a personal level....
ALS REUZEN STERVEN
Jan VrommanWhen giants die let three generations look back on the street happenings around parties and manifestations. The grandfather appears as a ghost and represents processions organized by order of cities and municipalities. It is his son who places the parades in a series of processions, historical processions, parades, traditional parties and carnival parties. Criticism and attraction play their game...
BUCHAREST 8 MARCH 2022
Mira SandersIn the video ‘Bucharest 8 March 2022’ we listen to a voice message that shares city experiences and impressions from a walk in Bucharest city centre. Throughout the message, we understand that it is the first time that the narrator has been there...
CLAMOR
Edurne RubioPeople who committed suicide and babies who died before being baptised were not accepted in Catholic cemeteries until not so long ago. Desperate relatives secretly sought out a dignified place for their bodies. Burials that shared hills and wind with executed people, atheists, passers-by, Protestants.....
DAS RETIRÉE OR THE LAST HOUSE OF MY FATHER
Julie PfleidererIf you were to design your dream house now that you're at the end of your life, what would it look like? This question from the filmmaker to her father, retired architect Karlhans Pfleiderer, is the starting point of Das Retirée or the last house of my father. Slowly but surely, the house takes form, first drawn on shifting layers of transparent paper, then glued into a scale model...
HORAIZON
Meggy RustamovaHoraizon is an experimental film moderating between photography, moving image and sound. The title is referring to the English phonetic pronunciation of the world horizon. The film is shot in different locations throughout the world. The horizons, sunsets and weather conditions between these places form the common thread throughout the film...
LE ROI N'EST PAS MON COUSIN
Annabelle AventurinThe author of the book Sunny Karukera, Stranded Guadeloupe (1980), Elzea Foule Aventurin engaged, in 2017, in a series of interviews with her granddaughter, the filmmaker Annabelle Aventurin. Together they trace—not without malice—a family history, sailing from one side of the black Atlantic to the other. A history of silences, pride, and revolt....
L'ESCALE
Anne Reijniers - Paul Shemisi Betutua - Nizar Saleh Mohamedali - Rob JacobsFilmmakers Paul Shemisi and Nizar Saleh travel from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Germany for the screening of their new film. During a layover in Angola, they're stopped at the airport because the airline doesn't trust their documents to be real...
LIMBO. THE EARTH IS HARD
Ira A. GoryainovaIn the aftermath of global irreversible climate changes something went wrong in nature’s circle of life and death – human bodies ceased to decompose. In a field hospital amidst a forest, nurses take care of patients whose death is delayed....
MARINE TARGET
Lukas MarxtThe surface of the Salton Sea reflects the glistening sunlight. Sediment colors the water green at times, at the edge of the image, almost bluish. The camera that captures this gentle flickering and flowing, floats far above a white rectangle...
NATURE SEE YOU
Erik BüngerIn November 2015, at the eve of the UN climate change conference in Paris, a video was uploaded on the internet, in which Koko, a gorilla trained in the use of American Sign Language, addresses world leaders directly. She chastises humanity and calls for immediate action to save herself and the nature she is part of...
PRUEBAS
Ardélia IstarúIn 1982, accompanying my father to Paris, my Costa Rican mother sent a series of letters to her parents when she arrived in the French capital. Forty years later, I found these letters and revisit a story full of pain in order to better understand my own arrival on the continent....
SPEECH FOR A MELTING STATUE
Anne Reijniers - Paul Shemisi Betutua - Nizar Saleh Mohamedali - Rob JacobsIn June 2020, thousands of people took to the streets in Brussels to make a fist against police brutality and institutional racism in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. For a moment, it seemed that some demonstrators would take down the statue of colonial king Leopold II in a nearby square...
THE ABSENCE OF TELEPRESENCE
Dan OkiThe Absence of Telepresence is a personal observation and reflection on the gradual fusion of telephone, address book, camera and computer into one gadget. Hybrid documentary, feature and research film about communication technologies, on which we had become so hardly dependant as individuals and as a society...
THE LOST SAIL
Justine CappelleThe competences is a series of videos in which I explore the incompetences I experience to express myself after breaking up a relationship. The first video deals with the incompetence to show. In the second I search for a way to represent the inability to feel. The third video is about the incompetence to speak, find words...
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...
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...
TURTLENECK PHANTASIES
Gernot WielandTurtleneck Phantasies tells the story of a German writer who worked as a sailor on cargo ships and later, after a shipwreck, spent over 30 years in psychiatric institutions tattooing his fellow inmates. The film combines historical accounts with personal memories, merging the documentary and fiction...
CHANTAL IN GREEN
Rebecca Jane ArthurChantal in Green is part of a series of colour-aura Super 8 film portraits guided by the adage ‘love is a verb’ in which the artist films her nearest and dearest, observing, framing, filming, and constructing keepsakes as an act of love...
EXTENDED PRESENCES
Margaux Dauby"Looking at the tree line, a question creeps into my mind and, simultaneously, I have a desire what if nothing existed?" (M. G. Llansol) Extended Presences follows several women in their seasonal work as fire watchers in Portugal. The film comes close to their breathing, to the passing of time and to solitude, from within....
SMALL ACTS OF VIOLENCE
Aay Liparoto
THE MIME AND THE APE
Erik BüngerIn the film Silent Movie (1976) a film director places a phone call to Marcel Marceau to ask him to star in a silent film. The world famous mime picks up the phone and shouts “No!”. Thirty-five years later the exact same stunt is repeated by Cesar, the chimpanzee protagonist in Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)...
THE PERFECT SQUARE
Gernot WielandGernot Wieland (born 1968 in Horn, Austria) worked for twelve years with an animal trainer who taught birds to fly in circles or squares. The title itself invokes the intellectual purity of geometric forms, considered superior by analytical philosophy to describe the laws of nature...
VALLEY PRIDE
Lukas MarxtThe seemingly extraterrestrial camera eye floats upside down through a palm grove planted in a strictly rectilinear manner. Nature is literally upside down and existing in an artificial order as a business game. Only at the crescendo of the strange, vibrantly smoldering soundtrack by Jung an Tagen does the gaze slowly turn clockwise. Then, cut: quietness, open space...
YOURS,
Eva Giolo - Rebecca Jane Arthur - Katja Mater - Sirah Foighel Brutmann - Eitan Efrat - Maaike NeuvilleA group of artists are invited to be inspired by the work of the well-known, Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman, specifically her film News from Home (1976). The busy city of New York serves as the film’s main character. Meanwhile, we hear Akerman’s voice reading letters from her mother in Brussels...
AMONG THE PALMS THE BOMB OR: LOOKING FOR REFLECTIONS IN THE TOXIC FIELD OF PLENTY
Lukas Marxt“Among the palms, The Bomb” is a cinematic exploration that rounds up a seven-year-long research of the Salton Sea – the largest lake in California that is on the verge of ecological collapse, and the resilient community struggling to survive within this dystopian reality...
BANDEKO BASI
Bie Michels - Paul Shemisi BetutuaThe documentary Bandeko Basi by filmmakers Paul Shemisi and Bie Michels examines the position of women in Kinshasa, focusing on how they navigate both traditional and contemporary roles, particularly in relation to female sexual identity. Central to the film is Hana Kele (known as HanaKel on social media), an activist who champions female sexual identity...
BAREFOOT BIRTHDAY ON UNBREAKABLE GLASS
Rebecca Jane Arthur - Azam MasoumzadehIn Barefoot Birthdays on Unbreakable Glass, three women – Constance, Azam, Anna – each spend a day with the filmmaker in their homes...
EVEN THE PROMPTER DIES
Erik Bünger - Manuel SaizEven The Prompter Dies is an experimental video that investigates the power of speech over images. Multiple voices – all belonging to the two filmmakers – wrestle for mastery over the footage, from various positions inside and outside the frame...
LOMME ́S GARDEN
Eva ClausLomme ́s garden is a 16mm color film where we see Lomme working in his vegetable garden. The four seasons are passing by, each of them is shot with the Bolex camera on one roll of 30 meters film. Lomme has loved growing vegetables all his life, just like his parents and grandparents did...
REGARDING FAUSTINE
Ira A. GoryainovaStarting with the premise that any documentary portrayal has something dominating and destructive in its nature, this short essay tackles the relationship between the director and her protagonist, Faustine. The act of looking becomes tangible through technology, superstitions and fantasmatic seeing...
RIPARIA, RIPARIA
Marion GuillardOn a birdwatching tour of the Doel polders in 2020, I came across a pile of sand in the middle of a traffic circle, itself in the middle of the industrial port of Antwerp. This pile of sand is a monumental sculpture, shaped by hundreds of shore swallows...
TIME STICKS TO THE WALLS
Krassimir Terziev - Tsvetelina HristovaAs I breathe, as I sleep, as I eat, as I swim, as I shiver - I am haunted. (Pause 1) I am haunted by places and times. (Pause 1) I am haunted by other mes that have refused to stay quietly in the domain of the past and are clinging to memories of corridors, laughter, fear, the deep sadness of a present that slowly sinks into the cold dark swamp of a futureless past...
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...
WHITE CLOUD
Emmanuel Van der AuweraIn a remote industrial site in Inner Mongolia, miners extract a strategic resource essential to our way of life under dramatic human and environmental conditions. This is where 80% of rare earth minerals, essential to the manufacture of digital technologies, come from. A miner working on the site shares his thoughts on his life and working conditions...
YOU DO NOT LEAVE TRACES OF YOUR PRESENCE, JUST OF YOUR ACTS
Gernot WielandThe film You do not leave traces of your presence, just of your acts can be read as an experimental coming-of-age film that illuminates the traces of three characters from the filmmaker's youth: Maria, Daniel and Jackpot. In the stories, which Wieland tells in his own voice from a first-person perspective, autobiographical and fictional elements merge into a dense poetic space...
