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We will live to see these things, or, five pictures of what may come to pass, Julia Meltzer & David Thorne, 2007 © the artists & producer We will live to see these things, or, five pictures of what may come to pass, Julia Meltzer & David Thorne, 2007 © the artists & producer

WE WILL LIVE TO SEE THESE THINGS, OR, FIVE PICTURES OF WHAT MAY COME TO PASS

Julia Meltzer - David Thorne
“We will live to see these things, or, five pictures of what may come to pass” is a documentary video in five parts about competing visions of an uncertain future...

THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS

Michel Couturier
The shipping lane between Calais and the cliffs of Dover is the busiest in the world. This stretch of water is also the favoured route used by illegal immigrants in their attempt to reach the United Kingdom from Calais. The west-east axis of global trade is perpendicular to the south-north axis of migration triggered by war and poverty...

IJSBREKER 04: KUNST TE KOOP

Jef Cornelis - Freddy Coppens - Anton Stevens - Jackie Claeys
The television programme ‘Ijsbreker’ always undertakes an expedition into the most dangerous areas of the cultural icy mountain ranges, reeling about this time between the peaks of visual art and the hidden iceberg of art trade, the gallery circuit, art criticism and museum policy...
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TOMORROW SQUARE

Aglaia Konrad
The installation ’Tomorrow Square’ consists of two facing projection screens on which eight hours of ‘cityscapes’ can be seen respectively. The visitor takes place in the middle between the screens. The exhibition situation was conceived by Konrad as a square, where different visual and audible signals are picked up from various directions...

THE MOVEMENT OF PHILL NIBLOCK

Maurits Wouters
The movement of Phill Niblock is a portrait of dronecomposer, structural filmer and NewYork sixties-icon Phill Niblock. He was one of the personal photographers of Charles Mingus & Duke Ellington. Later on he worked in Judson Dance Theatre and shot a film for Yvonne Rainer. On Niblock's 60th birthday Sonic Youth did a performance in his loft...
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COMME D'HABITUDE. UNE PIÈCE À ENGAGER

Eran Schaerf - Eva Meyer
‘As Habitual’ is a set piece, a documentary fiction, about how to adapt oneself to unknown regions without surrendering to them. This movie is situated in Mombassa and Zanzibar, where you can find a material called Khanga that hovers between language and architecture, and in fact turns into a habit...

EXTENDED HORIZON

Lukas Marxt
Like a cultivated alien, Lukas Marxt wanders through a desert landscape guiding his reconnaissance by remote control. Everything is entirely normal, but both path and logic come to a sudden end at an abyss. Marxt perseveres while the sound of his alleged steps wafts away with the camera image into a void: three cheers for cinematic reality....

MY SUMMER 77 WITH GORDON MATTA-CLARK

Cherica Convents
This film document is an addendum to the original Office Baroque film that was realised by Cherica Convents in the seventies. The film consists of never unveiled reflections & images of Gordon while preparing one of his last building cuts ‘Office Baroque’...

DIVINATIONS

Sarah Vanagt
Children from Brussels, Athens and Sarajevo roll out strips of transparent tape onto the streets where they were raised. When they peel back the tape it is left with an imprint of the city: dust, sand, sweet wrappers, insects, glass, fluff ... An ultra-realistic diary that is brought to life by an old magic lantern. Do all these shapes and images tell us something about the future?...
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23 STOREYS

Ilona Ruegg
'23 Storeys’ refers to the 23 levels of the Tour Centrale, also known as the 'Lotto Building’ in Brussels. At the time of the shooting, the building was completely empty. The camera first moves from the 5th level up the fire escape escape and then down from the 23rd floor through the empty corridors and rooms, always using the elevator from floor to floor, down to the 6th...