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LOOKING UP
Bernard Gigounon‘Looking up’ is, as Gigounon puts it himself, a trip through time and space between the astounding and reality. The short video starts with a sky at night, accompanied by the mesmerising sound of an army of crickets. We look up, as the image evolves very slowly it becomes clear to us that the thing we thought to have seen is not actually what it was, or is...
THE VIDEO MESSAGE
Roy VillevoyeIn The Video Message Omama talks about what happened to him after he collaborated on the development of the life-size, realistic statue that Roy Villevoye made of him: Madonna. The core of the story is that by participating in the project he sold his soul. Not in the figurative sense as we mean it, but literally. By selling this reproduction of his likeness he lost himself...
AU BALCON DE TITI
Yasmina BenariAfter 11 years in jail and a life spent hoping to see a free and fairly ruled Egypt, Titi alias Albert Arrié witnesses 2011 riots from his own balcony. He is 81. The film follows Titi over the course of two years, as hope turns to dust and present meets the past. At Titi's Balcony is a voyage, oscillating between inner and outer worlds...
SAHARA CHRONICLE : A COLLECTION OF VIDEOS ON MOBILITY AND THE POLITICS OF CONTAINMENT IN THE SAHARA
Ursula BiemannA collection of videos on mobility and the politics of containment in the Sahara...
BESMETTE STAD
Johan GrimonprezBesmette Stad TV broadcast, Belgium, 1993, 18min, restored in 2007 directed by Johan Grimonprez with Paul Garrin, Meg Stuart, Alison Murray & Pascal Baes produced by Ziggurat, Belgian TV BRT / TV1 with the support of Jan van Eyck Academy 01. Video-Guerrilleros fragment from 'Man with a Video Camera' by Paul Garrin, 2min Topic II by Pascal Baes, fragment 1 02...
SPIEGEL
Lili DujourieA mirror and a fireplace are reflected. A naked woman enters the frame; stands up next to the fireplace ... We see her nude reflection in the mirror, standing off-camera, before she enters the camera's active zone. From our observation point, we see her walk forward, breaking the threshold of the camera's field of vision but still reflected in the mirror...
THE LOGIC JACKET
Messieurs DelmotteOne sunny late afternoon, a man hangs his jacket in a tree on a rather unconventional way. This work is part of the series UNDO / REDO...
Avant-garde citizens: Janneke’s story, 2007, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson © the artists
AVANT-GARDE CITIZENS: JANNEKE’S STORY
Libia Castro - Ólafur ÓlafssonWith families and holiday-makers passing her as she relates her tale, Janneke’s story seems out of place on a beach. Janneke is a Dutch activist who, after protesting against the treatment of interned immigrants, was herself imprisoned under the Immigration Act for refusing to present her name and passport...
WAAROVER MEN NIET SPREEKT 3: EEN HEMEL OP AARDE
Jef CornelisThis program tries to offer a solution for the dilemma between the needs of citizens and the reality of both the housing environment and urban organisation, which have over the years completely got out of hand (just think of the daily traffic jams)...
