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THE NEURASTHENIC
Hubert MarécailleOn learning that cancer can be hereditary, and immediately persuaded to have a strong risk due to his familyʼs history, an unemployed person consults a medium, who, pessimistic about its future, suddenly puts in doubt all his efforts to fit into society : his life then seems invain and useless, at the thought of his approaching death constantly on his mind... ...
GIROUETTE
Mira SandersSanders films a weather vane on the Nieuwe Graanmarkt/ Nouveau marché au Grains in the centre of Brussels. Looking through the eye of the camera, it takes Sanders a little while to realize that at a certain moment, once the wind is blowing, the gilded weather vane has a blinding effect in the sun. Because of the camera placement, the film creates a magical time space for the viewer....
LA CHAMELLE BLANCHE
Xavier ChristiaensWhat if Ulysses, returning from his travels, had found only indecipherable shreds, shards, dark and shifting landscapes, splintered vestiges of his past? A disturbing disorder reigns all around, putting eyes and ears in a constant state of expectation, prisoners of these fragments of a reality so gripping, obtuse, impossible to avoid and yet misleading, fleeing and opaque...
ENJAMBEMENT
Lili DujourieWe are in a room with parquetry flooring. The artist, clothed in shirt and jeans, is moving about on the floor with the restlessness of the insomniac, performing sequences from her repertoire of horizontal motions developed in previous work. But when 'she' rolls over, we realize Dujourie has substituted a male model for herself...
SHEIK ATTACK
Eddo SternIn this video Eddo Stern combines Israeli pop songs from the late sixties -optimistic, nation-building songs- with violent, militaristic scenes from computer/video games, resulting in a vertiginous, thought-provoking spectacle...
ANALOGUE KINGDOM
Esther JohnsonGerald Wells stole his first radio, a Belmont, in 1943 at the age of thirteen. He was immediately sent to an approved school, whose psychiatrist diagnosed an obsession with wireless and electricity, an obsession that continues today. The house Wells was born in and still inhabits is now home to over 1,500 wireless objects and 45,000 valves...
THE CLOWN AND THE HOLE
Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle NystThe theme of this video is the observation of a 'chantoir’, a popular expression designating a water hole in a prairie of which the terrain is composed of limestone. The action of the water on the lime contributes to the formation of holes of varying depths. The story presents a character that wonders about the origin of the hole and tries to communicate with it by playing the trumpet....
BREAD AND PUPPET THEATRE
Jef CornelisA report on the Bread and Puppet Theatre (New York). The troupe leader Peter Schumann speaks about his political commitment and how he chooses his puppets and music. We see a recording of the play ’A Soldier goes to War’ on waste ground in Nancy during the student theatre festival. Part of the BRT (Belgian radio and television broadcast network) television series ’Medium’...
WAITING FOR THE SECRET
Meggy RustamovaWaiting for a Secret takes it starting point from a picture, revealing its secrets by zooming into the various details. Gradually, the picture becomes alive, raising issues such as isolation, linguistical confusion, pixelisation and the suggestion of movement within a still image....
