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FLY

Shelly Silver
In FLY, the camera wonders around a room until it stops on a tapestry dominated by two peacocks in front of each other. Then, a voice over tells about a fugitive encounter....

MISSING EYES

Emmanuel Van der Auwera
Missing Eyes is a single channel video installation in cinemascope format displayed in a projection room. A facial recognition and eye tracking software has been used to measure the eye movement and emotional responses of a group of viewers to a video of the terrorist group ISIS...

NOCTURNE #2

Pieter Geenen
Registered with a mobile phone camera in the spring of 2011, ’nocturne #2’ shows the central lanes and squares of Tehran, and its surrounding streets, at their most quiet and empty moment of the day. In recent history, the area around the infamous Azadi Tower (Freedom Tower) has been the backdrop of various protests, demonstrations, and violent repression...

THE GOOD LIFE (A GUIDED TOUR)

Katleen Vermeir - Ronny Heiremans
In the background technicians are installing a prestigious exhibition,whilst a smartly dressed lady is guiding a group of people around a series of pristine white spaces, some of them filled with crates and wrapped-up paintings. Along the way she not only comments on the art but also reveals the building to her audience from a unique perspective...

A PECULIAR FAMILY ALBUM

Amina Menia
“From 1953 to 1957, the Deputy-Mayor of Algiers Jacques Chevallier appointed Fernand Pouillon to undertake building projects: social housing for the benefit of poor Algerians. With this ambitious programme, Jacques Chevallier was planning to reduce the blatant inequalities between Europeans and the indigenous population...

AU BALCON DE TITI

Yasmina Benari
After 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...

TEDDY DOG MOTHER

Messieurs Delmotte
A toy animal lies on a black background. Slowly, it moves shivering. When the camera zooms in, we see a knife going through its chest. The formerly rather small looking peluch animal is in fact a lot larger then it seemed. It even gives birth to Messieurs Delmotte himself. The work is part of Delmotte’s early ‘Century of the 20th Sex’ series....

BUCHAREST 8 MARCH 2022

Mira Sanders
In the video Bucharest 8 March 2022, we listen to a voice message that shares city experiences and impressions from a walk in Bucharest city centre. Throughout the message, we understand that it is the first time that the narrator has been there...

JAC & JERI

Roy Villevoye - Jan Dietvorst
Recorded in Agats (Papua) on October 6th 2001 and in Capelle aan den Ijsse (Netherlands) on March 1st 2002, Jac & Jeri gives an account about a shared history. Jeri talks about Jac's holdings, staying and activities in the Asmat region. Alternatively we see, in his home in the Netherlands, Jac watching on tv the report of Jeri...

DOUBLE DAWN

Lukas Marxt
Lukas Marxt's film is directed into the darkness of the landscape. What we see is a 30-minute static shot, in which silence spreads: an illuminated factory area on the horizon, otherwise just blackness, stretched flat and wide like a canvas. The cycle of the sun dictates the dramaturgy of the film...