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OPERA AND STEEL

Grace Schwindt
Opera and Steel portrays the dilemma of an ornithologist studying the effects of oil pollution on seabirds. The victims he records symbolise the efficiency of capitalism. Schwindt creates a poignant sketch of the relationship between capitalism and morality – and the individual experience in this kind of setting...

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?...

REAL TO REAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Messieurs Delmotte
In ’Real to real photography’ a young man is shown, among others, blowing a whistle. Furthermore the image of a woman onscreen is half covered, a man is bombarded with fruit, a woman smokes a cigarette without taking it from her mouth and a head disappears behind a mountain of whipped cream...

DOUGLAS PARK'S 'READING ALOUD'

Cel Crabeels
Douglas Park's 'Reading Aloud' was set up as a performance and collaboration between Cel Crabeels, Douglas Park and Nico Dockx. The video was shot at and produced by Cel Crabeels for the show 25 JAAR LOKAAL 01: 'PAULO POST FUTURUM', 16 June 2007 to 2 September 2007" at Breda The Netherlands. This video is part of an ongoing and expanding archive project...

COME IN

Cel Crabeels
This tape is part of an installation with the same name. It consists of a one-hour recording of a door. The image on show is mainly static. It comes to life at random moments, when voices and footsteps can be heard. There is a knocking at the door, sometimes violent. Someone is fiddling the handle. Footsteps are running away...

THE SILKPROCESS: SOME CHOREOGRAPHY & POETRY WITH GERARD MALANGA

Hänzel & Gretzel
A short trilogy based on Gerard Malanga’s art and writings. ‘The Unknown Girl’ opens with a bucolic vision on the poet’s desire for younger lovers and unknown experiences. The second part is a plain reading of ‘Some Things To Remember About Tri-X’ (from Malanga’s recent ‘Mythologies of The Heart’)...

BAYINDO

Paul Shemisi Betutua
In a story about traditional medicine, spirituality, and decolonization, Bayindo takes us to Kinshasa in the DR Congo. The film dives into the heart of the animist community "Kintuadi Tuka Kongo", a group that attempts to restore the customs and the ancestral faiths destroyed by the arrival of the missionaries and colonizers....

APHASIA

Jelena Jureša
Aphasia focuses on the absurdity that arises from the collective silence surrounding crime and the compartmentalisation of historical events. In medical vocabulary ‘aphasia’ refers to the sufferer’s difficulty in finding words or losing the ability to speak...

Document for the right to the everyday, Ria Pacquée, 1999. Courtesy the Artist

DOCUMENT FOR THE RIGHT TO THE EVERYDAY

Ria Pacquée
This is a recording of a performance, a protest by the faceless, anonymous artist, in the city of Ghent, in reaction to the position she finds herself in, due to the attitudes of the state toward artists in general and to herself in particular. ...

METAMORFOSE VAN HET OBJECT (1910-1970 PSK BRUSSEL)

Jef Cornelis
In 1971 the Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels presented an overview of modern and contemporary art at a large retrospective with sixty years of visual arts. The subtitle of the exhibition was Art and Anti-Art. It featured work by famous Belgian and international artists, including René Magritte, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp and many others...