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MY RECTUM IS NOT A GRAVE (NOTES TO A FILM INDUSTRY IN CRISIS)
Steve ReinkeUsing footage shot in 1938 and 1939 by Ivan Besse, who owned a movie theatre in Britton, South Dakota and used local portraits in a kind of local news-reel, Reinke builds a strange reverie, sometimes speaking as Besse, sometimes as St. Paul, with reference to Frank O’Hara, Odetta and Dusty Springfield....
DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Johan GrimonprezThe guideline in Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y is the unofficial chronicle of world-wide aeroplane hijacking. Its blending of archival footage and personal home movie imagery sets out to investigate the media politics of our contemporary catastrophe culture...
PHANTOM SUN
Alexis DestoopIn 2013 Alexis Destoop embarked on a series of travels to the border area between Norway and Russia – a counter-point with Australia: the cold and dark, snow and ocean are completely the opposite of the warm, sunny, dry desert climate. And yet both regions are subject to similar processes, hence the artist’s interest...
LIBERTY: AN EPHEMERAL STATUTE
Rebecca Jane ArthurStemming from a personal account of a search for liberation set in the US during the early 70s, Liberty: an ephemeral statute reflects upon post-68 desires for emancipation, emigration, and education through an impressionistic memoir and portrait of the filmmaker’s mother back home in Scotland today....
TECHNOCALYPS - DEEL 2: PREPARING FOR THE SINGULARITY
Frank TheysTechnocalyps is a 3 part documentary about ‘transhumanism’, an ideology assuming that we approach an era where humans, as we know them, are no longer the driving force of civilization. All technological developments seem to converge to one main goal: to overcome humanity, to try and create something transhuman...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 35. INSTRUCTIONS FOR RECOVERING FORGOTTEN CHILDHOOD MEMORIES
Steve ReinkeHow to stick two pieces of candy into one’s nasal orifices with the only help of one’s tongue?...
THE STREET
Jef CornelisThe street is more like a machine of movement equipped to make traffic run smoothly than, in its original and spontaneous form, a breeding ground for life. The efficiency controlling the traffic grid does not merely affect the existing living area, but also the form and pattern of a new way of living. Residential areas have turned into traffic zones; inhabitants are pushed back into their homes...
