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MELENCOLIA, EEN HOMMAGE NON-STOP

Stefaan Decostere
An essay which is at the same time a very personal homage to cinema and the history of visual art. Using early film footage as illustration, Decostere unfolds his reflecting piece in a setting that calls to mind pictures by Escher and Magritte...

MARCEL BROODTHAERS °1924

Jef Cornelis
On September 27th 1968, the Belgian poet, filmmaker and artist Marcel Broodthaers (1924 – 1976) opened his fictional Musée d’Art Moderne – Département des Aigles, Section XIXème Siècle (“Museum of Modern Art, Eagles Department, Section of the 19th Century”) in his house in Brussels, Rue de la Pépinière...

CLOSED DISTRICT

Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd
The material for ’Closed District’ was recorded in 1996 in the South-Sudanese village of Mankien where Vandeweerd filmed the war, which has lasted for thirty years in this area. Because of the despair and disillusion there, it took him almost ten years to edit the images into a documentary, which is not merely about the war in Sudan, but about wars in general...

ART NOUVEAU IN BRUSSEL

Jef Cornelis
This is a small documentary on Art Nouveau in Brussels. Some examples are given, such as the Solvay Hotel built by the architect Horta and the pictures of Giovanni Wieser from the exhibition catalogue ‘Art Nouveau: Minor Masters’. Original broadcast date: 24/12/1971...

SLEEPING HIGHWAY

Messieurs Delmotte
This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 1...

DOUBLE TAKE

Johan Grimonprez
Director Johan Grimonprez casts Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war period. The master says all the wrong things at all the wrong times while politicians on both sides desperately flounder to say the right things, live on television...

FACTS AND GESTURES VOL. 1

Messieurs Delmotte
’Facts and Gestures Vol. 1’ is a compilation tape. The different parts can also be ordered separately...

REIGN OF SILENCE

Lukas Marxt
A static shot shows part of a landscape, a serene body of water in front of a mountain. A motorboat enters the picture from the right, obeying the directions sent by radio and forming a spiral in the water´s surface. The boat then turns to the left and leaves the scene; solely its wake is visible for a time. Reign of Silence records a human intervention in nature...

THE JOYCEAN SOCIETY

Dora García
A group of people have been reading a book together for thirty years. They have been reading it again and again, with each journey from the first to the last page taking eleven years. Once they reach the last word, a very enigmatic "the," they begin again with the first word, "riverrun." The text appears inexhaustible, its interpretation endless, the inconclusive nature of the reading exciting...

IJSBREKER 09: WOENSDAGAVONDKOORTS: LET'S DANCE

Jef Cornelis - Jackie Claeys - Mark De Geest - Karel Schoetens
An edition of ’Ijsbreker’ on rolling dancing movements, taking a look at the widest range of forms, including cha cha cha, quickstep, tap dancing and the Chinese art of movement TaiChi Tao...