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SPEECH FOR A MELTING STATUE

Anne Reijniers - Paul Shemisi Betutua - Nizar Saleh Mohamedali - Rob Jacobs
In June 2020, thousands of people took to the streets in Brussels to make a fist against police brutality and institutional racism in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. For a moment, it seemed that some demonstrators would take down the statue of colonial king Leopold II in a nearby square...

DIVE INTO MANKIND

Ria Pacquée
From East to West Ria Pacquée observes and films people in and on the water: in and on seas, oceans, rivers and lakes. From a distance she zooms in on actions and rituals performed in and around the water. The recordings range from explicitly religious activities – such as bathing in the Ganges or a baptismal ceremony – to bathing purely for relaxation and pleasure...

THIS, OF COURSE, IS A WORK OF THE IMAGINATION

Wendy Morris
In 1917 the Steamship Mendi sailed towards the English Channel and France. On board was a battalion of South African labour troops. In the early morning, in fog, the ship was rammed by another boat and sinks within twenty minutes. 600 men drowned. A legend evolved around the last moments of the men and the manner in which they faced their death...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 33. CHARMING MUTT

Steve Reinke
I once had a lover who would occasionally transform into a dog - and not even a purebred....

THE NATURAL LOOK

Steve Reinke
"There is no future in reproduction. I have no concern with any species extending itself through time. You think you have given birth to a baby, when really you have given birth to a bus driver, or tax collector. Instead I'm interested in the placenta, the real mother of us all, forgotten discarded. The softest machine, all lipids and blood, that blooms and rots like any vegetal/floral martyr...

HOW PHOTOGRAPHS ARE STORED IN THE BRAIN

Steve Reinke
‘How Photographs Are Stored in the Brain’ assembles an archive of photographs and phonograph recordings discovered in an empty house. They are not my photographs or (presumably) your photographs, so they stand in for the idea of a family archive. A ruthless animation, sentimental and quietly mocking, yet perhaps still able to evoke sadness and longing....

CHUTE D'UNE CHAISE

Michel François
This video shows us a chair falling down a staircase. It bumps and breaks. This gesture poses the artistic act as one of mutilation. Defacing everyday objects in this way alters the way in which we perceive them....

THE MENTAL REASON VOL. 1

Messieurs Delmotte
This series consists of the following parts:* Out Off* Abstract Birds* The Boat* Butterfly* Rose in Mouth* Tiger Skin* Molten Ball* Rabbit: Natural Size* Treets Appearances* Race Wool* Sleeping Highway* Little Pink Rain* Day Owl* Balloon from Inside* Confettis Man* Fox: Natural Size* Yellow Flowers* Rabbits Mask* The Vases* Bizarre Fir...

VICTOR BOURGEOIS

Jef Cornelis
An exhibition devoted to Victor Bourgeois was organized in 1971 by the archives of modern architecture at the National Higher Institute for Architecture and the Visual Arts in Brussels. This film is a presentation of that exhibition. Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Titles. 00’15" Presentation...

AS ] THEN

Peter Downsbrough
In AS ] THEN static, photographical images are alternated with, among others, shots from a driving car. The recordings were partly made in the immediate surroundings of the former Wielemans-Ceuppens brewery in Brussels; the locations consist of building yards, the railroad, a crossroad and a railway viaduct. These images are linked to recordings made on Boulder Highway in Las Vegas...