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Edith DekyndtAcousticians from the Polytechnic Faculty of Mons measured the precise resonant frequency of crystal glasses. They were reproduced by a frequency generator and played through a loudspeaker in the presence of each of the glasses. At this frequency, the sound energy is trapped in the glasses, which then start to vibrate. The vibration finally causes them to break...
NATIONAL LIBERATION FOOTBALL
Amina MeniaOn November 18, 2009, the Algerian football team won a match against Egypt by a goal to nil, thus ensuring a place in the 2010 World Cup. Public jubilation was all the greater, given that both countries were experiencing political tensions...
S.O.L.
Robert SuermondtThe camera zooms in on the moving figures behind the closing titles of the film ‘Silence of The Lambs’ (1991, Jonathan Demme). The camera movements, screening the people and the space behind the titles, open up a new fictional space....
AND ALIGN
Peter DownsbroughA fixed long viewpoint of a busy intersection is ultimately interrupted by a 180° travelling. A woman is sauntering along the street lines, almost bored. The passing of time is prominent. An everyday environment is rendered as a modernist architectonical environment; order and disorder are shown in observation, and dissected...
J'ESPÈRE QUE VOUS ALLEZ BIEN
Boris Van der AvoortTaken from film archives, this playful and nostalgic ‘montage’ wants to picture the lives and hopes of three generations of a Belgian family between 1931 and 1997. Images belonging to the family possessions take us back to childhood and play, journeys, relationships, dancing...
A STRANGE NEW BEAUTY
Shelly SilverA disturbing intrusion into the luxurious homes of Silicon Valley. Using an aggressive soundtrack and a full frame often fractured into small rectangles covered by text, Silver reveals a deafening violence behind the glittering beauty and deceptively calm of this suburban landscape...
Majjudo (Lost Man), Laurent Van Lancker, 2009 © the artist & producers
MAJJUDO (LOST MAN)
Laurent Van LanckerSomeone who leaves the dying fire without his torchlight is a lost man. According to the filmmakers, ’Majjudo’ is ’’sensorially drifting in a French-Senegalese experience of Shadow Cinema’’. While light is mainly provided by torchlights, creating a cinema-driven shadowplay, people are dancing and playing music during the night...
PATRIA (VIVE LE ROI! VIVE LA RÉPUBLIQUE!)
Koen TheysVideo installation for 1 projector and 1 flat screenmonitor. In his book ‘The End of History and the Last Man’, the American philosopher Francis Fukuyama defends the idea that the end of history is reached. All the big ideologies of the 20th century have come to an end, he says, and they have made place for a post-ideological, neo-liberal pragmatism...
OCCUPIED
Peter DownsbroughThe film is shot entirely within the site of the Cité Administrative in Brussels. In an interview during the early stages of this project, Peter Downsbrough said : " I use film to introduce time within my observation. Its very unfolding makes film the ideal means to do this"...
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Edith DekyndtA circle of silk thread shakes hands, passes from one to another, winds, wandering, as if he were alive. The image is presented in video-projection, leaving the terrain of the hands and the curves of the wire appear on the wall like a mural....
