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OPERA AND STEEL

Grace Schwindt
Opera and Steel portrays the dilemma of an ornithologist studying the effects of oil pollution on seabirds. The victims he records symbolise the efficiency of capitalism. Schwindt creates a poignant sketch of the relationship between capitalism and morality – and the individual experience in this kind of setting...

TARLABAŞI VE BEN

Jaad Gaillet - Marianna Francese
After many years in jail, Mustafa, a man in his fifties, decides to leave his native village and his family in the eastern Turkey to take refuge in the Turkish metropolis, in Istanbul. From Çağlayan to Kadikoy, his ephemeral wanderings in Istanbul finally lead him in the neighborhood of Tarlabaşı, where he settles and reinvents his life as a waste picker...

WALKER, LE COLISÉE

Thomas Bernardet - Florent Mulot
This film documents the Colisée, created by the architect Kisho Kurokawa, and its surroundings. The two protagonists wander around the spaceship of a building and its moonlike terrain, trying to apprehend its form and situation....

THE BOAT

Messieurs Delmotte
A scene at night. All dressed in black, Messieurs Delmotte is sitting in a red inflatable boat, slowly floating on what seems to be a calm lake. Suddenly, he jumps up and cuts the boat with two knifes. But the tiny vessel does not sink at al… This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 1...

CZECHMATE

Hänzel & Gretzel
An Akasic Peeper project dedicated to the New York poet-mythographer, phantasmagorical filmmaker and pioneer editor Ira Cohen (also known as the Majoon Traveller). A short poem written and read in Prague during the ‘Sub Rosa Curfew tour under the full moon’, also featuring the Golem’s shadow and Jan Saudek’s baroque bordello...

IT WILL BE ALL RIGHT IF YOU COME AGAIN, ONLY NEXT TIME DON’T BRING ANY GEAR, EXCEPT A TEA KETTLE…

Johan Grimonprez
The multi-channel installation ‘It will be all right if you come again, only next time don’t bring any gear, except a tea kettle…’ (1994-2004) explores the creation of new mythologies in the wake of Western imperialism...

SPAZIERGAENGER MIT HUND - SONSBEEK 86

Jef Cornelis
A report on the art manifestation of Sonsbeek 86, falling back on the sense of security of the park. These natural surroundings had an atmosphere not unlike that of a museum. Some of the works had been positioned ’out in the open’ in the park. Most of the objects, however, could be considered in specifically designed glass pavilions...

FRIDAY FISHDAY

Jan Bucquoy
The fifth part of The sex life of the Belgians tells the story of a man who refuses to or who cannot make love to women who smell strongly of fish. Returning to his native village Harelbeke and then to Ostend, film maker Bucquoy reflects on his aims as an artist and film director. “I’m fed up with making films for some hundred people. This time we’re going to be real machos...

SET [ING]

Peter Downsbrough
In Set [ing] the camera is situated in a closed, empty meeting room in an office building in the Paris business centre of La Défense...

THE FUCK

Messieurs Delmotte
Near a busy road Delmotte hangs a big sign on a statue, stating ‘Allez tous vous faire enculer’ (‘Fuck them all’). This work is part of the series 'Rejected videos'...