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GUY ROMBOUTS

Jef Cornelis
Original broadcast date: 15/09/1984...

MY RECTUM IS NOT A GRAVE (NOTES TO A FILM INDUSTRY IN CRISIS)

Steve Reinke
Using footage shot in 1938 and 1939 by Ivan Besse, who owned a movie theatre in Britton, South Dakota and used local portraits in a kind of local news-reel, Reinke builds a strange reverie, sometimes speaking as Besse, sometimes as St. Paul, with reference to Frank O’Hara, Odetta and Dusty Springfield....
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DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

Johan Grimonprez
The guideline in Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y is the unofficial chronicle of world-wide aeroplane hijacking. Its blending of archival footage and personal home movie imagery sets out to investigate the media politics of our contemporary catastrophe culture...

PHANTOM SUN

Alexis Destoop
In 2013 Alexis Destoop embarked on a series of travels to the border area between Norway and Russia – a counter-point with Australia: the cold and dark, snow and ocean are completely the opposite of the warm, sunny, dry desert climate. And yet both regions are subject to similar processes, hence the artist’s interest...

LIBERTY: AN EPHEMERAL STATUTE

Rebecca Jane Arthur
Stemming from a personal account of a search for liberation set in the US during the early 70s, Liberty: an ephemeral statute reflects upon post-68 desires for emancipation, emigration, and education through an impressionistic memoir and portrait of the filmmaker’s mother back home in Scotland today....

TECHNOCALYPS - DEEL 2: PREPARING FOR THE SINGULARITY

Frank Theys
Technocalyps is a 3 part documentary about ‘transhumanism’, an ideology assuming that we approach an era where humans, as we know them, are no longer the driving force of civilization. All technological developments seem to converge to one main goal: to overcome humanity, to try and create something transhuman...
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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 35. INSTRUCTIONS FOR RECOVERING FORGOTTEN CHILDHOOD MEMORIES

Steve Reinke
How to stick two pieces of candy into one’s nasal orifices with the only help of one’s tongue?...

THE STREET

Jef Cornelis
The street is more like a machine of movement equipped to make traffic run smoothly than, in its original and spontaneous form, a breeding ground for life. The efficiency controlling the traffic grid does not merely affect the existing living area, but also the form and pattern of a new way of living. Residential areas have turned into traffic zones; inhabitants are pushed back into their homes...