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L'ESCALE

Anne Reijniers - Paul Shemisi Betutua - Nizar Saleh Mohamedali - Rob Jacobs
Filmmakers 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...

DESIRE

Shelly Silver
Want to want to do, one must not desire the pleasure but take pleasure to desire.  ...

SOUM

Alice Brygo
Three young squatters set out to occupy an abandoned bank. While waiting for the period to elapse from which they will be able to assert their right to domiciliation, they invest the building with their memories and performative games....

SECUESTRANDO A BARBIE/MONO NO MONOGATARI

Lazara Rosell Albear
Secuestrando a Barbie is an intimate portrait of Venezuelan Daniela Gallegos alias Aerea Negrot alias Miss Dandruf. A singer, performer, electronic music producer and DJ. A cinematic, minimal but multilayered portrait that seeks to reconstruct a personality that chose to disguise herself in the many ones that are perceived throughout the work...

SUITE

Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel Bonnemaison
Although filmed and conceived during the same stay in Lima (1975) as ‘Rose de Lima’, ‘Suite’ is a completely different aesthetic proposal. A portrait of Lima’s street mechanics, the poorness and roughness of its black and white image, accentuated by Jacques Lederlin’s music – a soundtrack that was added in 2007 – almost carries a neo-realistic touch...

Harrar, Ria Pacquée, 2010. Courtesy the Artist

HARAR

Ria Pacquée

THE CRY

Ria Pacquée
In various outdoor locations, a cry is performed. As the locations differ – under trees, in a rough wooden structure, in a field – the distance of the performer from the camera also differs, altering the volume and proximity of the sound. The performer also varies the vocal qualities of the cry, including its length, tone, pitch and volume...

THE DYNAMITE SHOW

Koen Theys
Similarly to most of Koen Theys’ work, ’The Dynamite Show’ also shows a fascination with contemporary iconography. This video was built from video images of various explosions, developed by several American companies, who specialize in special effects for Hollywood films...

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE I

Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel Bonnemaison
Some twenty video artists from the French school (among others Robert Cahen, Didier Bay, J.C. Bouvet, Yves le Marrec) are briefly portrayed in turns; they produce slogan-like comments on the medium of video art....

ROBERT HOUBEN, MINISTER VAN STAAT

Jef Cornelis
Robert J. Houben (1905-1992) was a Belgian Politician and a member of the Christian Social Party (at the time called Christelijke Volks Partij or CVP). In 1969 he was declared ‘Minister of State’ (Minister van Staat), an honorary title granted by royal decree to prominent politicians who made an outstanding effort in public life. In 1980-81, Cornelis filmed Houben in his home interior...