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BELONG

Shelly Silver
Behind her desk, probably in her university office, a woman talks about belonging and argues that nobody really belongs to something nowadays. While she speaks, Silver edited old photographs of people from disparate origins as well as different cities and landscapes. The final static shot shows the Seine banks, the flag of France and a woman playing with her dog....

ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK SONG

Steve Reinke
Named after Harry Smith’s seminal "Anthology of American Folk Music,” ’Anthology of American Folk Song’ re-inscribes the optimistically paranoid mythological landscape of contemporary America. Reinke illustrates this by saying "they had been unable to believe in the existence of terrorists. After all, none of them had discovered any repressed memories of terrorist abuse...

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...

GUIDE DE POLITESSE À L'ATTENTION DE NOS FORCES DE L'ORDRE

Charley Case
In the streets of Tokyo, a young guy is handing out flyers to the passers by. We are not informed for what company or goal he is distributing these. However how polite, however how friendly – and hard! – he is trying, no one of the people passing by in this very busy avenue are accepting his pamphlets. Or is he succeeding in the end?...

DAS MODELL

Florian Gwinner
Reality bites its own tail. Florian Gwinner constructs a model of a world from the viewpoint that reality and its model are one. Starting with a white horizon, a camera tracks slowly backwards in a straight line. On its way, it glides past a few signs of human existence. Gradually, these make way for a church, houses, carsm then ever-wider streets and urban highrises...

BUCHAREST. THE CITY - ME

Alina Cristea
“Matei Visniec has once named one of his poetry books The City with One Inhabitant. This is how I always felt about Bucharest - as my city, even more so, the city - me” (Mircea Cartarescu).By using narrations to re-signify situations and events filtered through her individual and particular viewpoints, Alina Cristea aims to tell a story about Bucharest as she sees it...

BATAILLE

Nicolas Provost
‘Bataille’ is based on the same process as ‘Papillon D’Amour’. A scene, in which two samurai clench on to each other, turns into a shadow-fight between shades, with itself and the cosmos....

DOUBLE RAP SCRATCH

Messieurs Delmotte
This work is part of the series UNDO / REDO Vol. 2...

DRIFTING

Hans Op de Beeck
'Drifting' is a narrative video in which an old man is heard off-screen, bidding farewell to his beloved. It becomes clear from his account that she committed suicide when they were both still young. At the end of his life, he speaks of the tragedy and of her inconceivable beauty, which he carries in his memory...

THRU

Peter Downsbrough
THRU is a dialectic investigation of two urban locations, one inside, the other outside. The video was conceived as a double projection, partly taking the designated space – the exhibition space at Argos – as its subject. The image alternates in a symmetrical rhythm between long, inert and twilit panoramas of the exhibition space and short, static shots of a nearby, busy street...