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PERFORMANCE METRO MEIR

Ria Pacquée
As the title indicates, this video is a recording of a performance that Pacquée did together with Danny Devos in 1979. Standing on the lowest metro platform, Pacquée is on a small wooden square. With white duck tape she has made a bigger square around it, of which she keeps on enlarging the edges with new pieces of tape...

REGARDING FAUSTINE

Ira A. Goryainova
Starting with the premise that any documentary portrayal has something dominating and destructive in its nature, this short essay tackles the relationship between the director and her protagonist, Faustine. The act of looking becomes tangible through technology, superstitions and fantasmatic seeing...

SONG OF HOMECOMING

Alex Schuurbiers
Filmmaker Alex Schuurbiers became captivated by a small house on a French island, a mystical place hidden between the waves. In Song of Homecoming, she talks to the house and its inhabitant in an attempt to find kinship and connection....

VANDALES ET VAMPIRES (NUITS SANGLANTES)

Lucile Desamory
In the twilight, an errant sleepwalker meets a vampire hunting for fresh blood...  ...
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PROOF OF LIFE

Herman Asselberghs
The interior of an open, empty space: the frontier between ’inside’ and ’out side’ is slight. The only sign of human presence is to be found as a voice-over: a male voice recalling horrifying TV-images, a popular disaster film, a long-term imprisonment. The title alludes to the diplomatic negotiating jargon used during the video recording of a live hostage...
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BUCKETHEAD

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte makes a somersault, tumbles in a bucket of water with his head, and ends up on his behind, totally soaked, with a bucket for headwear. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...

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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SANGAM

Charley Case
Applying image analogies, and flecked throughout by an Indian mythology featuring Biblical allure. A sail down the Ganges is described in a filmic way: one lets himself drift along on a raft, the other walks along the riverbank, their gazes locked. An introspective journey....
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GALERIE DE PORTRAITS

Marie André
In ’Galerie de portraits’, André sketches the portraits of five women from among her closest friends and family (including her grandmother and daughter), composing an intimate, intensely private space. Her eloquent compositions focus on the quotidian, the richness inherent in such everyday gestures as watering a plant, lighting a cigarette, stirring a cup of tea...

MARC MAET

Jef Cornelis
For the current art events programme 'Kunst-Zaken' Cornelis made this film about the artist Marc Maet. The programme opens with an introduction to the new photo book Roland Patteeuw made about Maet...