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Philippe Van Snick
A woman is reading at a garden table. Every minute she changes the side she is sitting at, until she’s back where she started. The camera starts turning round to film her and her book. Afterwards she starts looking at photographs of herself, sitting at another table but with the same book in her hands....

I, Y, AND, Peter Downsbrough, 2010 © the artist & producer

I, Y, AND

Peter Downsbrough
The camera travels through the outer areas of Barcelona, moving slowly through tunnels, along roads, on the water and elsewhere, blending travelling and fixed shots. The artists focusses on the infrastructure of the city – piers, docks, tunnels and buildings. Sporadically, we hear the sounds of the city...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 20. DEAF

Steve Reinke
My father exists in a large room where he lectures to an audience which is mesmerized despite the fact that they are deaf and, moreover, cannot even lip-read as they speak a wholly other language....

LUDUS PRO PATRIA

Mira Sanders

SMOKE

Roy Villevoye
My new film Smoke on which I worked over the past half year or so, tells the story of my very good (Asmat-)friend Ndo, who got blind as a young boy. And how eventually he got new eyesight. It also tells of friendship and efforts made because of this. Of hope and loss. And of confusion dealing with all this and the unexpected paths life takes...

VOX CLAMANS IN DESERTO

Ria Pacquée
’Vox Clamans in Deserto’ is a combination of filmed reality (blood running down streets after a ritual slaughter in Moroccan Medina) and performance (a woman flinging sand into her face), intersected with a plain bright red screen...

FRANÇOIS

Sven Augustijnen
’François’ constitutes, along with the film ’Johan’, a purely documentary portrait of patients with aphasia. François, a middle-aged man, suffers from aphasia – memory lapses – and he has trouble finding the right words for simple expressions. In order to train his memory he undergoes various treatments in a hospital, among them speech therapy...

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...

Between Two Walls, Ria Pacquée, 2009. Courtesy the Artist

BETWEEN TWO WALLS

Ria Pacquée
The work of Ria Pacquée contains narrative aspects, firmly rooted in a social awareness, which do not seem to take shape until the final stage of the editing. ’Between Two Walls’ is a montage of clips showing the worship of people of different faiths in Jerusalem – in the streets, in the temples, at shrines...

FLAUBERT DREAMS OF TRAVEL BUT THE ILLNESS OF HIS MOTHER PREVENTS IT

Ken Kobland
‘Flaubert Dreams of Travel…’ focuses on images of death and transcendence as suggested by the writings of Gustave Flaubert. The film was made in conjunction with the Wooster Group’s stage production ‘Frank Dell’s The Temptation of St...