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DER KREISLAUF

Katrien Vermeire
In her new short film Katrien Vermeire depicts a unique game that is played on Belgium’s beaches in the summer months. When the weather is good, one can find colorful flowers for sale in small, impromptu-built shops. But these flowers hate being watered or rained on, as they are made of paper. Der Kreislauf takes an intimate look at the young players....

BABULIA [SECOND CHAPTER OF INSTALLATION, ENGLISH VERSION]

Nora Martirosyan
"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...

THE ASCENT OF MAN. PART I: SILENT RUNNING-APPENDIX

Jayce Salloum
Black-and-white images of a lake and a wood fill the screen. The viewer hears soft piano music, alternated with the sound of birds. Suddenly a man starts screaming. The music becomes alarming. Is there any danger?...

BRAINSTORMING

Bernard Gigounon
Stooping over a directory of Belgian enterprises, one cannot fail to recognize that we have a certain talent for abstraction when it comes to finding names for our companies. Bernard Gigounon likes to think of these as being the result of some very serious brainstorming sessions. Reading the names out loud one after the other, the artist reveals an absurd and incredible tangle of words....

IN [ TO

Peter Downsbrough
The silent, ultra-short black-and-white video IN [ TO is shorter than a video clip: it clocks in at 2 minutes, 47 seconds. It was made with material shot exclusively for the film, plus footage filmed 'on the occasion', while Downsbrough was working on other projects...

ART NOUVEAU IN BRUSSEL

Jef Cornelis
This is a small documentary on Art Nouveau in Brussels. Some examples are given, such as the Solvay Hotel built by the architect Horta and the pictures of Giovanni Wieser from the exhibition catalogue ‘Art Nouveau: Minor Masters’. Original broadcast date: 24/12/1971...

CONCRETE & SAMPLES I: WOTRUBA WIEN

Aglaia Konrad
Concrete & Samples I, II, III is a series of 16mm films on sculptural architecture. What the buildings and site in all films have in common is the idea of ‘architecture as sculpture’ and a very distinct use of concrete that seem to depart from the free form of the whole in a sculptural manner...

TOPIC I

Pascal Baes
The French film theorist André Bazin used to consider film as a spell of time. He spoke triumphantly of a victory on the irreversibility and the transitoriness of life. Baes’s ’Topic I & II’ (the painterly quality of its dusky images is for a good reason reminiscent of Francis Bacon’s strokes) seems to question these transcendent views on cinematography...

HET GEEL VAN GENT

Jos De Gruyter - Harald Thys
In this video Jos De Gruyter and Harald Thys put themselves in the shoes of the two main characters. Similarly to their previous work Man is characterised as a walk-on in the puppet show of life, a cogwheel in the diabolical machine of destiny. Man is unfathomable and soulless, merely an object in a world of inanimate things...

SANTIAGO DE CHILE

Jef Cornelis
Santiago de Chile, 1.500.000 inhabitants, is today recovering from the umpteenth dictatorship and from the exodus of intellectuals. Visual artist Juan Davila (Santiago, 1946) returned from Australia, where he had been living since 1974, especially for this film. He holds a dialogue with his colleague Eugenio Dittborn (Santiago, 1944) about dictatorship, staying or leaving, elitism and childhood...