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THE LADDER 2 (ALONE)

Messieurs Delmotte
Like in a scene out of a surrealist painting, a lonely ladder is standing in a park and seems to be reaching for the sky. But this illusion is shattered when the ladder drops to the ground. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...

NOCTURNE #2

Pieter Geenen
Registered with a mobile phone camera in the spring of 2011, ’nocturne #2’ shows the central lanes and squares of Tehran, and its surrounding streets, at their most quiet and empty moment of the day. In recent history, the area around the infamous Azadi Tower (Freedom Tower) has been the backdrop of various protests, demonstrations, and violent repression...
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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 39. EDITORIAL

Steve Reinke
What is the difference between science and life ? Step away from that microscope for a second and I’ll tell you....
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TRAVELOGUE 3: ALCHEMY BRUXELLOISE

Stefaan Decostere
The third and last part of the trilogy is a video-trip inside the ‘Poème électronique’, a bizarre and ideologically loaded film made by Le Corbusier, Varèse and Xenakis for the Philips Pavilion in the Brussels World Fair of 1958...

OMNIUM GALLORUM FORTISSIME CANTANT BELGAE

Jan Vromman
A piece of the universe - in this case Belgium – is isolated in an aquarium in order to observe it more closely. And by the way, isn’t television sort of an aquarium? Two journeys are undertaken: one plunges us into the everyday reality of a typical Belgian café, while another takes us on a train ride exposing scenes of the Belgian landscape....

DÉJÀ VU (HALLU)

Michel François
Michel François is fascinated by the small signs of life, the trivial moments and touches that are bestowed with every appearance of magic at the right time. Beauty is to be found in everyday life, where emotion and astonishment occur. François tries to induce these experiences and to grasp the mobility and the elusiveness of perception...
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FIREWORKS

Messieurs Delmotte
In a field, Delmotte lights two fireworks attached to sticks. He holds the sticks in his hands while the fireworks go off and makes a few spins. Offscreen people shout and whistle. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...

THE VANITAS RECORD

Koen Theys
Vanitas is Latin for vanity. A Vanitas painting is a form of a still life consisting of a collection of objects that symbolise the brevity of human life and the transience of earthly pleasures and achievements. Vanitas paintings were most popular in the Netherlands of the sixteenth and seventeenth century...
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A WEEKEND WITH MONSIEUR MAGRITTE, PART 2 SUNDAY

Jef Cornelis
The second part of a Magritte portrait, compiled from fragments of amateur films Magritte made himself on super-8 and 8mm, with home images of his family and circle of friends, outings and holidays. ’ Original broadcast date: 20/03/1997...
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