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Emmanuel Van der AuweraBestgore.com (BG) was created by Slovak-Canadian Mark Marek in 2008. The website hosts explicit photographic and video material of events including murders, suicides, torture, mutilation and horrific accidents. With an estimated 40 million yearly visits, BG is currently the biggest shock site in the world. Through authored opinion and user comments, the website exalts extreme ideas...
TARLABAŞI VE BEN
Jaad Gaillet - Marianna FranceseAfter many years in jail, Mustafa, a man in his fifties, decides to leave his native village and his family in the eastern Turkey to take refuge in the Turkish metropolis, in Istanbul. From Çağlayan to Kadikoy, his ephemeral wanderings in Istanbul finally lead him in the neighborhood of Tarlabaşı, where he settles and reinvents his life as a waste picker...
THE DARK GALLERIES
Nicolas ProvostA fascinating hall of mirrors through a montage of film noir scenes where the actors face a painted portrait. This perfect blend of cinema and painting was commissioned to supplement a book study. Provost exploits the rules of editing to create an imaginary museum visit...
CHRYSALIDE
Patrick BernatchezChrysalide, for its part, unfolds in a circular travelling movement around a black BMW parked in the basement garage and slowly filling with water. A businessman sits at the wheel, serenely smoking a cigarette as the water level rises. The film ends with water bursting through the doors and windows of the car, saving the protagonist from certain death....
INK IN MILK
Gernot WielandInk in Milk is Wieland’s most recent film – a knotted string-figure of histories, fictions and images. Through the flickering vignettes of a schoolboy trauma, visits to a friend at a psychiatric institution and encounters with animals, Ink in Milk exposes the anxious, web-like structures that underpin the tragicomedy of existence...
MAURICE BÉJART (& MUDRA)
Jef CornelisMaurice Béjart speaks about the state of dancing in Belgium in a European and international context, the school programme and how pupils are selected for the Ecole Mudra. Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Titles. 00’15" Announcements...
ANOTHER DAY IN TREATY TOWN
Koen TheysAnother Day in Treaty Town is a contemporary European western. A saloon, a covered wagon, a campfire, a couple turkeys and a wooden grandstand appear in a sun-drenched Flemish landscape. The grandstand is filled with "cowboys and indians". Dignitaries from both sides are smoking the peace pipe. They are flanked by men cleaning their guns or sharpening their knifes...
Surya, Laurent Van Lancker, 2006 © the artist & producer
SURYA
Laurent Van LanckerOnce upon a journey, 10 contemporary storytellers of different cultures create an imaginary epic story. They each draw on their own style and language to perpetuate the life of a nameless hero. The aromas of cultures, the taste of words and the perfume of travelling carry us from one storyteller to the next...
VARKENSPEST / PESTE PORCINE
Jan VrommanFor several times the native village of the video maker, Wingene, was an epicentre of swine fever. Shaken by the mass destruction of pigs the artist made a poetical videogram with some self-made images and images from the TV news. Homage to the swines who fell on the sacrificial altars of profit seeking....
COGELS OSYLEI, BERCHEM
Jef CornelisCogels Osylei is an unique district, built around 1900 on the outskirts of Antwerp. With its exuberant mixture of neo-styles and Jugendstil, it was often discarded as the absolute limit of bad taste, to the point that plans were made in the 1970s to tear down the area altogether...
