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ONE SECOND OF SILENCE. PART 01, NEW YORK

Edith Dekyndt
A transparent flag flutters in the breeze, its surface mingling with the surrounding sky as though it were the emblem of it. The sky on the other hand, emerging in the waves that move this flag, appears to become liquid....

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...

THE REMEMBERED FILM

Isabelle Tollenaere
In The Remembered Film young soldiers from previous wars are seen roaming the woods aimlessly. They wear the uniforms of the Soviet troops, the Wehrmacht or the American military forces during the Vietnam war. In interviews, they share war memories they can’t possibly have experienced themselves, but which have taken root in their memory...

THE INVISIBLES' PARLIAMENT

Vincent Meessen
The narrative in ‘The Invisibles’ Parliament’ is based on ghost images. Two apparitions emerge from the darkness and lead us towards a still fountain where a crowd is waiting for them. The ‘fountain’ object is here poetically re-visited. Through a series of loose associations, this short film traces the roots of modernity...

VASCULUM

Pieter Geenen
In speaking about what's far, exotic and unknown lies what's close and familiar. vasculum turns to the central region of the province of Limburg in Flanders, Belgium. The artist's own native land. In the twentieth century it was known for its coal mining. Here it finds itself between appearing and disappearing, between the utopian and the dystopian, amidst efforts of preservation...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 16. AFTER BAUDELAIRE

Steve Reinke
I am no longer happy....

NOTES ON BEING ON THE WAY

Mira Sanders
The film presents notes on “being on the way” from 'Un journal d'un usager de l'espace. Het traceren van op en rond een Heerweg' ('Diary of a User of Space. Tracing on and around a Roman road'), the thesis Sanders is working on to get her PhD in the Arts...

L'ENTRÉE DES INVESTISSEURS DANS BRUXELLES

Bernard Mulliez
Around the Brussels international South Station
 the local authorities are expulsing the poorest.
in sixteen years investors are still to be found.
local people have organized a procession
to hasten their arrival....

KUNST EN CENSUUR (GROOT KEMPISCHE CULTUURDAGEN)

Jef Cornelis
In the spring of 1970 the 24th edition of the Culture Days of the Greater Kempen took place in Hilvarenbeek, in the southern part of the Netherlands, just over the border with Belgium. For the current art events programme Zoeklicht Cornelis made a short television report about the event that features some eminent figures in the world of art...

OP-ART

Jef Cornelis
An exhibition of a work by the Italian artist Julio Le Parc gives cause to a short report on ‘Op-art’ or Optical Art. This movement arose from geometrical abstract art and it is often bracketed together with Kinetic Art. Often Op-art is the starting point for an attempt to set up an artwork in a ‘scientific’ way, according to strict rules...