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THIS, OF COURSE, IS A WORK OF THE IMAGINATION

Wendy Morris
In 1917 the Steamship Mendi sailed towards the English Channel and France. On board was a battalion of South African labour troops. In the early morning, in fog, the ship was rammed by another boat and sinks within twenty minutes. 600 men drowned. A legend evolved around the last moments of the men and the manner in which they faced their death...

LIED VAN MIJN LAND

Koen Theys - Frank Theys
The German 19th century composer Richard Wagner wrote the operas Ring des Nibelungen and Parcifal in order to shape his vision on the relationships in society. Koen and Frank Theys have treated Wagner’s Ring with an immoral curiosity and have enriched it with personal and contemporary themes...

THEN, Peter Downsbrough, 2008 © the artist & producer

THEN

Peter Downsbrough
THEN is a video project filmed in and around San Francisco. The camera moves with the traffic on the Bay Bridge, which is the longest high-level, steel bridge in the world...

FLYING PIGEON

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte hangs out of a window, holding a pigeon in his hand. He moves his arm around, while the pigeon is trying to flee. It looks as if Delmotte is trying to make the pigeon fly without actually releasing it. In the end the pigeon is cut loose. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...

PARTITION POUR UN MOUTON

Jacques Louis Nyst
A suite of photographic and filmic images made in the country. An ode by and for the environment of the sheep....

I FEEL COLD TODAY

Patrick Bernatchez
Beginning with a travelling shot in the ascending elevator, I Feel Cold Today depicts a deserted office space slowly filling up with snow that appears to be blowing in through an open window....

FLÂNEURS

Matthew Lancit
Between film projects and following the birth of his daughter, a Canadian in Paris (Matthew Lancit) must confront his slacker lifestyle and decide if there is something in it worth passing on to the next generation, or if he is better off getting a job...

VLAANDEREN 77

Jef Cornelis
Together with the author Leo Pleysier, Cornelis creates one of his most beautiful elegies of Flanders. They thumb through the landscape as if it were a book, seemingly of new, strange and unknown origins, a colourful patchwork veiling the remainders of smoking battlefields with its bizarre alluring and hidden charms and revealing fragments of a disaster area in its outer corners...

HOE WAAR VALS KAN ZIJN

Stefaan Decostere
Working under the cover of imitation and parody, Jacques Charlier has allways set out to expose the perverse use to which images are put by art and society. Decostere’s film demonstrates this in an exemplary manner...

PRISM

An van. Dienderen - Rosine Mbakam - Eléonore Yameogo
For PRISM Belgian filmmaker An van. Dienderen invited Brussels based Rosine Mbakam from Cameroon and Paris based Eléonore Yameogo from Burkina Faso to make a film in which the differences in their skin color serves as a departure to explore their experiences with the limitations of the medium. Photographic media are technologically and ideologically biased, favoring Caucasian skin...