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EUROPE FROM AFAR

Eva Meyer - Eran Schaerf
Through a number of conversations ’Europe from Afar’ relates the Levantine projection of Europe as it is found in the book by Jacqueline Kahanoff ’Vom Osten das Licht’ to other projections inside the continents as well as outside them...

GEOGRAPHIES OF FREEDOM

Miguel Peres dos Santos
There’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...

MANEZH SQUARE, MOSCOW, USSR

Ken Kobland
Moscow in sept. 1990 is a city on the edge of historic change; hanging somewhere between perestroika and collapse, between reform and disintegration...

Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist

SILENT LETTER 22012009

Mira Sanders
The fourth 'Silent Letter' was written on January 22nd, 2009. While we see people playing volleyball on a beach, the narrator reflects on water, and how it changes from rain, moving through man's world and back to cloud again. In the end she refers to the seaside, where clouds are best viewed...

AMONG THE PALMS THE BOMB OR: LOOKING FOR REFLECTIONS IN THE TOXIC FIELD OF PLENTY

Vanja Smiljanic - 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...

DREAMACHINE

Edith Dekyndt
Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville conceived the Dreamachine at the beginning of the 60’s. It is the first object in history conceived to be viewed with closed eyes. The Dreamachine makes it possible to go down in Alpha brain waves, while remaining awake...

April 2nd, 1994, Shelly Silver © the artist

APRIL 2ND

Shelly Silver
"In April 2nd, Silver follows a series of men around the Marais district of Paris. From a suspicious policeman to a well dressed man who quickly disappears into a department store, to a guy in jeans who desperately runs into the street to get away from her, the tape begins with a series of short and apparently failed relationships...

ATOMIC BOMB LOADING PIT

Lukas Marxt
The video reveals an Atomic Bomb Loading Pit in Wendover, Utah (USA), which was used during WWII to practice the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We hear a voice over, reading parts of the unclassified 37 pages user manual "How to build an Atomic Bomb Loading Pit", which was released and distributed in June 1946....

TABLEAUX DES INDES GALANTES

Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière
Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opéra-ballet ’Les Indes Galantes’ serves as the unifying theme for this film by Joëlle de La Casinière and Michel Bonnemaison while the Ciné Central, shot from across the street and explored in every detail of its façade, provides its recurring visual motif...

FACE À FACE (PART OF PAS DE DANSE)

Eric Pauwels
‘Face à face’ is considered by many to be nothing more than a “simple recording” of a performance by Michèle Anne De Mey. The spirit of the performance is certainly sublimely reproduced, but there is more. ‘Face à face’ is to some extent the synthesis of Pauwels’s earlier experiments...