OVERVIEW TITLES

THE CURSE

Harald Thys - Jos De Gruyter
In the same minimalist style that would later on characterize 'The Bucket’ (2001) and 'The Spinning Wheel’ (2002), 'The Curse’ tells Maria’s unhappy story. After giving birth to her first child, she has mysteriously lost her husband’s love. The situation is as tragic as absurd, the universe it deals with as grotesque and enigmatic as alienating...

INSTRUCTION FOR USE

Edith Dekyndt
A silent animated drawing created out of manuals for consumption objects for public or private use. Dekyndt combines an inventory of daily instruction, but, in this way, the slide show questions our formatted consumeristic experience and faces us to the aesthetics of how-to included in ordinary packagings and their universal codified language....

DANS + CAMERA

Stefaan Decostere
This documentary investigation is constructed around four themes: what is dance and camera ? Which of them should move ? Is there a difference between dance on film, on video, on tv and on stage ? How do you choreograph for the camera ? Interviews with choreographers Merce Cunningham, Karole Armitage, Birgit Cullberg, Hans Van Manen, Jean-Claude Gallotta and Meredith Monk; film/video makers Charle...

COMMENT FILMER MOLENBEEK?

Johan Grimonprez - Franciska Lambrechts
The result of a workshop for which Franciska Lambrechts supplied a varied company of individuals and some basic equipment: a super-8 camera with 3 B/W films. What we see is a creative montage wherein the workshop and the discussed topics itself are at the core....

IT SEEMS TO BE LONELINESS BUT IT IS NOT

Lukas Marxt
Humans are social beings. But what are they when isolated and lonely? In It Seems To Be Loneliness But It Is Not Lukas Marxt puts himself in this situation by going to a place where human encounters and exchange can hardly be expected. The artist moves through an inhospitable location...

EUROPLEX

Ursula Biemann - Angela Sanders
’Europlex’, made in collaboration with visual anthropologist Angela Sanders, is a video which looks at the Spanish-Moroccan borderlands. What we can call the border there is not a linear formation...

THE RUNAWAY

Jan Dietvorst
A Dutchman speaks with authority about the ideas and customs of 'others'. It is the stereotype contrast between 'us' and 'them'. Gradually the relationship between these two becomes more ambiguous, the protagonists appear to be part of each others mythology....

HINTERLAND

Esther Johnson
Focusing on an East Yorkshire community which live on the fastest eroding coastline in Europe, Hinterland asks how it feels to live in such a precarious situation with homes fatally threatened by the elements. The black-and-white stock was chosen for its grain, which evokes the location's mood...

WALLPAPER

Edith Dekyndt
A flower print on textile is extremely slowly moving in the wind. Is the a curtain? Where is it located? And what is happening behind, on the other side of it?...

L'ÉNIGME DU SPHINX

Jef Cornelis
The work of architect Charles Vandenhove is an exploration of architecture in its fundamental simplicity and inevitable variety of form. His work, and in addition today’s architecture, is explained in the Liège Hotel Torrentius, a mansion from the 16th century being renovated, and this document’s focal point...