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EVENTUAL HORIZON
Elise GuillaumeFilmed in the Arctic, Eventual Horizon threads together the artist’s experience of insomnia, grief, and hope. In this viscerally engaging film, a parallel is made between the experience of mourning a loved one and ecological degradation. Perceiving grief as an active element of hope, Eventual Horizon focuses on the transformative and healing power of these states...
PERFORMING THE BORDER
Ursula Biemann’Performing the Border’ is a video essay set in the Mexican-US border town of Ciudad Juarez, where U.S. industries assemble their electronic and digital equipment, located right across the border from El Paso, Texas. ’Performing the Border’ looks at the border as both a discursive and a material space constituted through the performance and management of gender relations...
WALKER, IUT DE CHIMIE TOULOUSE LE MIRAIL
Thomas Bernardet - Florent MulotThis film is a visit to the Institut Universitaire de Chimie (chemistry polytechnic school) of Toulouse, near the site of AZF, a chemical factory which exploded in September 2001. The building was partly destroyed by the explosion and abruptly evacuated. It is now abandoned, but we are not its first visitors since the catastrophe....
CURUPIRA, BICHO DO MATO
Félix BlumeDeep in the heart of the Amazon, Tauary inhabitants invite us to listen to the sounds of the jungle, the birds, and animals. However, some weird sounds appear: a creature prowling around the trees. Some of them have heard her, very few have ever seen her, and those who did find her never came back...
WATCHING WORDS BECOMING A FILM (TXT.FLM #3)
Herman Asselberghswatching words becoming a film sort of a film this is a film and these are the words watching film a film becoming words sort of word's out word up word ...
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...
ONE OF US
Koen TheysIn a misty white landscape an endless procession of people roams as in a procession. They are characters from the three largest processions of Flanders. They look like figures from old Bible movies. The men are wearing fake beards, dusty robes and fake long-haired wigs; the women have exaggerated make-up and wear long robes and burkas...
NOTES ON BEING ON THE WAY
Mira SandersThe film presents notes on “being on the way” from 'Un journal d'un usager de l'espace. Het traceren van op en rond een Heerweg' ('Diary of a User of Space. Tracing on and around a Roman road'), the thesis Sanders is working on to get her PhD in the Arts...
NA ALLE VLEES: PORTRET VAN EEN WERKWIJZE (JACQ VOGELAAR)
Jef CornelisA portrait of the Dutch author and essay writer Jacq Firmin Vogelaar (1944), on the occasion of his ’All Meat’ (1980), a book aiming at nothing less than a thorough deconstruction of recognizable reality in order to set up a new construction with the debris. Vogelaar discusses the philosophy of the fragment, utopia, meat, (linguistic) machines, Francis Bacon...
