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A TEAR FOR A GLASS OF WATER

Orla Barry
In ‘A Tear for a Glass of Water’ the actress Tara Casey performs a fragmented monologue written by Orla Barry, to a static camera. A life belt is stranded redundant on the wall. Is it a rehearsal, a lecture? The performance is cold at times severe. Interest in religion has revived proclaims the performer authoritatively. So has toast and marmalade...

THE CURSE

Harald Thys - Jos De Gruyter
In the same minimalist style that would later on characterize 'The Bucket’ (2001) and 'The Spinning Wheel’ (2002), 'The Curse’ tells Maria’s unhappy story. After giving birth to her first child, she has mysteriously lost her husband’s love. The situation is as tragic as absurd, the universe it deals with as grotesque and enigmatic as alienating...

RISIBLE CHICK

Nick de Pencier
‘Risible Chick’ is an indie paean to urban frenetism made on no budget and city savvy. Choreographer Leslie Lindsay’s raucous in-our-face dance attack was first performed live at Toronto’s Dances for the Small Stage Rivoli Night Club series where it immediately became a critical and popular sensation...

atlantis, 2008, Pieter Geenen © the artist. Courtesy of Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp

ATLANTIS

Pieter Geenen
In 2009 the construction of the Three Gorges Dam on the Chinese Yangtze River was completed. As a result of this construction, 632 sq km of land a distance of 660 km upstream flooded up to a level of 175 m. Numerous social and environmental issues related to its construction made this dam one of the world’s most controversial projects in recent history...

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...

SLOW OBJECT 05

Edith Dekyndt
An object slowly goes up and down against a neutral background. Is it an air bubble in a transparent liquid? Or a balloon floating in the greyish-white sky? Edith Dekyndt does not disclose what the filmed object actually is. Like all other videos by Dekyndt, this short work causes us to become fascinated by the small, the unspeakable, the almost intangible...

FROM SATIN ISLAND

Johan Grimonprez
A haunting collage of disaster and beauty, set to a shimmering track by Lights Out Asia, Johan Grimonprez in collaboration with acclaimed avant-garde novelist Tom McCarthy, based on an abstract from his latest book SATIN ISLAND....

BRUEGEL, 11 JULI VIERING

Jef Cornelis
Original broadcast date: 09/07/1970...

BETWEEN FLASHBACK AND DÉJÀ-VU II

Krassimir Terziev
Two cameras are watching each other. One of them - fixed on a tripod overseeing a wide panoramic view of Sofia from high viewpoint, the other one - mounted on a drone seeking the location of the first one in a close-up on the facade of a building....

LICHT & BEWEGING, GRAND BAZAAR, REGEN, LOPEN, ROLTRAP…

Filip Francis
At night, in the highways and city streets, road and car lights seem to live a life of their own. It is the enchantment of the movement and distortion of these lights that Francis records from his car. Neon lights of advertisements pop up on the screen. During the day it is the movement of cranes on a building site that captures Francis attention...