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THE MOURNING OF THE SEA

Miguel Peres dos Santos
The Mourning of the Sea was shot at Cidade Velha in Cape Verde in 2016. Located off Africa's northwest coast, this town was the first European colonial settlement to asure slave trade to the America’s. An estimate of 4 to 6 million enslaved persons were sold and sent to the Americas from there, mainly to Brazil. The film, like the city, echoes the deep sadness of the past in the present...

INCIDENT. EINE SKIZZE

Andreas Brehmer
Starting point of ’Incident. Eine Skizze’ are fragments of text, sound and image, all related to one another. Thus the length of the text determines the frequence of the images (details of one and the same picture), their colour, as well as text and sound, which, in turn interrupts the rhythm of text and image by its volume....

WALKER, IUT DE CHIMIE TOULOUSE LE MIRAIL

Thomas Bernardet - Florent Mulot
This film is a visit to the Institut Universitaire de Chimie (chemistry polytechnic school) of Toulouse, near the site of AZF, a chemical factory which exploded in September 2001. The building was partly destroyed by the explosion and abruptly evacuated. It is now abandoned, but we are not its first visitors since the catastrophe....

TECHNOCALYPS - DEEL 3: THE DIGITAL MESSIAH

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...

7 COME 11

Peter Downsbrough
Originally, Peter Downsbrough made 7 Come 11 to document a 30-second piece he made in the summer of 1980 on the Spectacolor Board in Times Square, called: The Dice Are Not Loaded. “You could still play dice and three-card monte in the streets, if you were gullible enough. (…) But the dice was already cast for the old, sleazy, Times Square...

DEAD SEA DRAWINGS (PART 01)

Edith Dekyndt
Edith Dekyndt’s project Lot’s Wife (2009), of which the film Dead Sea Drawings is a part, refers to the fate of Lot’s wife, Edith, as described in the book of Genesis. Ordered by an angel not to look back as they flee the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Edith fails to comply and takes one last look behind her, turning immediately into a pillar of salt...

BLUE MERIDIAN

Sofie Benoot
Following the Mississippi River from Cairo, Illinois to Venice, Louisiana, Blue Meridian is a captivating journey through the dilapidated and worn out Deep South of the United States of America. A cinematographic encounter with people living among the traces of natural disasters, economic decline and a turbulent history...

SONSBEEK BUITEN DE PERKEN

Jef Cornelis
The 1971 Sonsbeek exhibition was subtitled 'Sonsbeek buiten de perken' (literally: "Sonsbeek Beyond Its Bounds", or freely as: "Sonsbeek Let Loose"). It was not limited to the confines of the park, but instead stretched out over all the Dutch nation. This was the period of land art, conceptual art, process art, minimal art, performance, and video; the traditional socle sculpture had disappeared...

ROBERT HOUBEN, MINISTER VAN STAAT

Jef Cornelis
Robert J. Houben (1905-1992) was a Belgian Politician and a member of the Christian Social Party (at the time called Christelijke Volks Partij or CVP). In 1969 he was declared ‘Minister of State’ (Minister van Staat), an honorary title granted by royal decree to prominent politicians who made an outstanding effort in public life. In 1980-81, Cornelis filmed Houben in his home interior...

IJSBREKER 18: KUNST AAN DE KUST

Jef Cornelis - Mark De Geest - Anton Stevens - Jackie Claeys
In this episode of ‘Ijsbreker’ there is a focus on the Belgian coast cities of Knokke and Ostend, who also have a history as major art cities. The Casino in Knokke was considered one of the main promoters of art during 1950-1970, mostly because of Gustave Nellens, who made sure the casino housed work by, among others, Margritte...