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TOPIC II

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’ ‘Topic I & II’ (the painterly quality of its dusky images is for a good reason reminiscent of Francis Bacon’s strokes) seem to question these transcendent views on cinematography...

FAIRE-PART

Anne Reijniers - Rob Jacobs - Nizar Saleh Mohamedali - Paul Shemisi Betutua
On the eve of postponed Congolese elections, two Congolese and two Belgian cineasts make a film about Kinshasa and its resistance against the legacies of colonialism. The four filmmakers want to tell a story together, but having grown up on other sides of history, they have different views on how to tell that story...

UNIDENTIFIED AIR

Messieurs Delmotte
A short video performance where we see Messieurs Delmotte, standing in front of a house, holding an inflatable dolphin in his arms. After a few seconds, an electrical pump starts to inflate the plastic animal. This work is part of the series Unidentified Emoticon...

THE KINGDOM

Pieter Geenen
The Kingdom is a series of nine videos portraying today's North American urban landscape by looking at the large Belgian community living in the Canadian tobacco belt. During 20th century this region was subject to heavy European immigration, attracting many Flemish immigrants in particular who settled as tobacco farmers...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 41. PIONEER

Steve Reinke
Recently I attended my maternal grandparents’ 55th wedding anniversary. I became a little sad thinking how a fully articulated spectrum of sexual pleasure had been denied to them....

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...

UBUNDU

Jelena Jureša
Jelena Jureša’s Ubundu, a film poem filmed at Antwerp Zoo, portrays the okapi, an animal exhibited for the first time in Antwerp in 1919 (the nine-month-old animal was an instant sensation, but within a month it grew weaker and eventually died)...

THE LOGIC JACKET

Messieurs Delmotte
One sunny late afternoon, a man hangs his jacket in a tree on a rather unconventional way. This work is part of the series UNDO / REDO...

THE ROOT PROBLEM OF THE WORLD

Steve Reinke
This is adapted from a two-channel video installation of the same name I presented at Birch Libralato in conjunction with the Images Festival in Toronto in 2011. The footage is from reel-to-reel video documentation of the lecture Joseph Beuys gave at NSCAD in 1976 on the occassion of his honorary degree...

ANOTHER DAY IN TREATY TOWN

Koen Theys
Another Day in Treaty Town is a contemporary European western. A saloon, a covered wagon, a campfire, a couple turkeys and a wooden grandstand appear in a sun-drenched Flemish landscape. The grandstand is filled with "cowboys and indians". Dignitaries from both sides are smoking the peace pipe. They are flanked by men cleaning their guns or sharpening their knifes...