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BORDER
Hans Op de Beeck’Border’ is projected life-size and opens with the image of a number of people sitting down in an oppressively small, square space. We can hear them whispering, sighing, coughing. Then a life-size x-ray image slowly appears over the total surrounding of this environment, the image of a truck crammed with goods...
UMBRELLA [PART OF FACTS AND GESTURES VOL. 1]
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte is crossing a shopping street, opens his umbrella and tosses it over his shoulder onto the street. The camera stays on the object, letting us admire the reactions of the passers-by. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...
OMBRE INDIGÈNE
Edith DekyndtA flag made of hair was stuck in the ground and filmed on top of rocks on the Diamant coast, in Martinique. There, precisely, on the night of the 8th of April 1830, a clandestine slave boat transporting a hundred African captives washed up on the rocks before being entirely destroyed....
GEESTELIJKE GEZONDHEIDSZORG (2): PRATEN MET PATIËNTEN
Jef CornelisOriginal broadcast date: 04/03/1975...
TRAVELOGUE 2: THE METAMORPHOSES OF TINTIN
Stefaan DecostereThis episode guides us through the African Museum in Brussels and explores the different ways of the fabrication of exoticism: how to make Africa exotic, and Brussels, and Nature, and Morale, and why not Anything, such as this Travelogue: an exotic critique...
THE CHAIR
Grace SchwindtThe artist interviews her grandmother about her experience of he occupation of Berlin in 1945....
YOU WERE AN AMAZEMENT ON THE DAY YOU WERE BORN
Cooper Battersby - Emily Vey DukeYou Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born is a visually stunning film that follows a woman through a life characterized by damage and loss, but in which she finds humor, love, and joy. With a score that follows the span of Lenore’s life, from her birth in the early 70s to her death in the 2040s, the film takes us from moments of harrowing loss to those of poignancy and dark humor...
THE MANY THINGS SHOW
Koen TheysThis video is based on two sources: a late 60s theoretical text, written by conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth — and a seemingly endless stream of found internet images, invariably picturing one or more persons in the proximity of some loved object: holding it; standing close to it; locking at it...
KITSCH GILLO DORFLES
Jef CornelisThe opening shot of this short film from the series Zoeklicht (Search light) shows the cover of the book Kitsch - An anthology of bad taste (first published in Italian in 1968, translated in English in 1970) by the Italian art critic, painter and philosopher Gillo Dorfles (°1910)...
NORTHERN DRIFT
Alexis DestoopReporting from the future, an Arctic exploration around an undefined border turns into a philosophical investigation of mankind and its environment. Assembled from personal experiences, collected testimonies and local stories, the film presents a subjective portrait of the contentious Norwegian-Russian borderland, one of hte world’s last frontiers...
