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SO HAPPY

Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel Bonnemaison
Joëlle de la Casinière herself, barefoot against an abandoned and ravaged metropolitan background, promotes her book ’Absolument nécessaire’ (‘An Emergency Book’) during an interview/happening with a broadcast delay. “Nothing is true, everything is permitted”. In the end the books are covered in graffiti like subway carriages....

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 48. ARTIFACT

Steve Reinke
These images are from a film the CBC made in the early seventies called "The Children of Sri Lanka"....

HERE... HERE, IT IS NICE

Ailien Reyns
This experimental portret is the result of a co-creative process between Aïlien Reyns and Lucas, an undocumented Roemanian homeless in Brussels. In the film, the position and perception of the refugee towards both his homeland and his land of refuge is audiovisually represented....

A ALEXANDRE SERGEÏEVITCH

Marie André
The story unfolds in the life of a young Belgian poet who, like the great Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin, has African blood in his veins. Sometimes the poet enjoys that life, at other times he puts up with it like everyone else. Poetry, music, play, good food are the elements of his existence...

LE CERCLE DES NOYÉS

Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd
Le cercle des noyés (Drowned by Oblivion) is the most documentary essay by Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd (1969). The film looks back on 1987 and the imprisonment of a number of Mauritanian political activists in an abandoned colonial fort at Oualata. Political authorities described them as subversives, so they were picked up, taken away and handled as such...

THE GARDEN

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte, hidden under a table (laid out for dinner), stands up and throws about the table. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

LIVING, LOVING, LEARNING

Steve Reinke
Condensed animation of a short text. Completion of the sentence “If I lived long enough....” Music by Sun Ra....

OOG EN HAND ALS UITDRUKKING 02

Jef Cornelis
For the art programme 'Openbaar Kunstbezit' Cornelis made two essayistic television reports in 1972 about the use of hands and eyes in the visual arts, “a way to look and to communicate.” Once more, 'Oog en hand als uitdrukking 02' ('Eye and hand as expression 02') is particularly free with regard to its format, bearing in mind the television standards of the time...

RAINBOW MARKET

Pascal Baes
A recording of a street performance by Aï Suzuki was edited with Baes’ typical time-lapse techniques into a kinetic staccato game with movement and space...

WAAROVER MEN NIET SPREEKT 1: HOME SWEET HOME

Jef Cornelis
’Home Sweet Home’ is a manifesto against the dictatorship of the bourgeois notion of the ideal home. ’I rented a house with a garden’ is still a current slogan, even if people buy apartments, villas and country-houses. People attempt to hide themselves in their homes and as a consequence a kind of social isolation arises that prevents the necessary community spirit...