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AND THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND

Jan Dietvorst - Roy Villevoye
Since the immemorial the Papuans have perceived the world of the rich Westerners as a sort of heaven. In their encounters both Papuans and Westerners have focused upon obtaining the riches of the other culture...

WALKER, IUT DE CHIMIE TOULOUSE LE MIRAIL

Thomas Bernardet - Florent Mulot
This film is a visit to the Institut Universitaire de Chimie (chemistry polytechnic school) of Toulouse, near the site of AZF, a chemical factory which exploded in September 2001. The building was partly destroyed by the explosion and abruptly evacuated. It is now abandoned, but we are not its first visitors since the catastrophe....

POLYFONISTEN DEEL 1

Stefaan Decostere
Polyphonic music developed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the courts and religious centres of Europe, and was a method of composition whereby the various voices were treated as wholly or partly separate from each other. In Polyfonisten, an identical line of thought is expressed in a mirror-like perspective of history as seen through the eyes of today...

LIBERATION RADIO

Esther Johnson
This is Liberation Radio. In 1968, a group of American military deserters went to the North Vietnamese mission in Stockholm with one object in mind – to join the army they had been drafted to fight. Instead, they were recruited for the propaganda war – and use magnetic tape, pop music and political rhetoric to persuade other American servicemen to desert...

ICI (UNE LETTRE À CHANTAL AKERMAN)

Bram Van Paesschen
ICI is a parody which by its very nature might at first seem trivial or gratuitous. The film is a remake with a vengeance of Chantal Akerman’s Là-bas. ICI (French for ‘Here’) takes place not in Tel-Aviv – Akerman’s Là-bas (‘There’) – but in Brussels, where Van Paesschen lives...

FILMISCHE SNELSCHETSEN

Filip Francis
With his camera Francis sketches rough portraits of his friends, of flowers, of exhibitions, pieces of fabric and other objects. From a riding car he records glimpses of the city life....

KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST GEEN KRITIEK? 5. WANNEER DE MEESTER ZEGT WAT KUNST IS

Jef Cornelis
Part of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art NOT Criticism?”, ’When the master says what art is’ shows images of a drawing-lesson in a secondary school, where ‘creativity’ and ‘talent’ are measured and adjusted making use of social norms and subjective values...

YEAH, IN THE BATHROOM

Messieurs Delmotte
Delmotte, wearing a black-and-white striped costume and matching make-up, pretends to be an American rockstar. In an incomprehensible accent he brags about his concert-tour, the media and his home in Texas. This work is part of the series FränZ ünd KoFöN...

LOUISE

Charley Case
‘Louise’, described by the artist as "ils font l’amour, ils se battent" ("they make love, they fight each other")....

POP ART: CASINO KNOKKE

Jef Cornelis
A short report on the event surrounding Pop Art which Emile Langui organised in 1970 in the Casino of Knokke. Rather than an exhibition, the event was conceived as a situation, a biotope in which visitors and works are admitted like plants and fish in deep-sea water...