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VOICE-OVER

Roy Villevoye
Set in the Asmat region in the Indonesian part of New Guinea, Voice-Over overlays the construction of a traditional wooden sculpture with a phone call about a sales deal gone wrong. The death of Roy Villevoye’s Papuan friend Omoma is the reason for the creation of the sculpture, a ritual that also functions as a memorial ceremony...

ALLE DE TRANEN / EVERY TEAR / TOUTE LARME

Sarah Vanagt
In the 17th century, Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek, a draper from Delft, begins to make glass lenses, in order to better study the quality of his textile. He melts, drips and grinds small beads of glass. His tiny lenses are so bright and have such magnifying power that the draper seems to have entered a new dimension...

ASS DANCE

Messieurs Delmotte
A short, though provocative, video where the camera shoots a naked body lying on a red surface. The body moves on the beat of the music while the viewer can read a text on the back of the actor....

CHRYSALIDES

Patrick Bernatchez
This trilogy of films takes the Fashion Plaza Building as its subject; the films were all shot on location there. Taken together, the films form a figurative, cinematic counterpoint to the abstract audio rendering of the facades in Fashion Plaza Nights...

BEAUTY PLUS PITY

Cooper Battersby - Emily Vey Duke
The contemporary fables of Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby propose that existence is abject, farcical, and messy. In their richly textured videos, Duke and Battersby employ live action footage, scavenged images, and simple animations to create episodic structures that evince a simultaneously utopian and dystopian world view...

THE NOSTALGIC

Hubert Marécaille
Despite his preoccupations, his new wife and his financial worries, a real estate agent is still nostalgic for a young woman he met in the past. The employee thinks about her again, revisiting his past while dreaming of his death, and ends by almost wishing the death of the women he loved to be free of these thoughts, – a women who has found her place in the world : without him......

GETTING IN

Shelly Silver
"Starting with the deceptively soothing pastel hues of a sunny afternoon in San Francisco, getting in stages a collision between two rarely questioned phenomenon, heterosexual sex and real estate." (Source: https://www.shellysilver.com)...

GEORGE SEGAL

Jef Cornelis
Original broadcast date: 26/02/1972 Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Titles. 00’15" George Segal exhibition at the Boymans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam. Views of his sculptures. 04’17" Credits. 04’25" (Source: Jef Cornelis 1964 - 1990, Espace Art Contemporain : Maison de la culture et de la Communication de Saint-Etienne, 1991)...

PLUS D'HONNEUR QUE D'HONNEURS

Jef Cornelis
One of the early architectural films by Jef Cornelis on Westerloo castle, dating from the 14th century, property of the princely family of de Mérode. In his typical way he explores, in sound and image, all facets of the building: the surrounding walls, the ponds around it and the parks...