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DE 10 SCHILDERIJEN VAN ETIENNE ELIAS

Jef Cornelis
Produced in the context of the Flemish public cultural organisation "Openbaar Kunstbezit", the Belgian painter Etienne Elias presents his ten favorite paintings in Flemish art collections. Each presentation is unique, humorous and creatively critical about cultural institutions, producers, buyers and onlookers....

MORT DE RIRE

Charley Case
Someone in a skeleton suit is dancing on a dark stage, a tracking light pointed at him. The skeleton-figure starts laughing cruelly. The boundary between life and death is blown away in a roar of laughter....

BLACK RAIN WHITE SCARS

Lukas Marxt
Black Rain White Scars depicts a twilight of reality. With the steady shot of a Gotham-like cityscape, Lukas Marxt guides us between vestiges of visionary architecture and narrow planted apartment buildings. As we’re searching for our relational point within it, the overwhelming murmuring of the human, car, and boat traffic, at the same time marginalises our position...

BRASILIA

Robert Suermondt
It is astonishing to see to which degree the sequences of persons can look like real scenes of fiction. The inhabitants of Brasilia – most of them are officials – run around from one office to another without wearing a jacket. In their shirtsleeves they look like men of action. Showing them from a distance makes them look like small puppets placed in a scale model replica of the city...

A ROLE TO PLAY

Esther Johnson
a ROLE to PLAY brings together the lived experiences and dreams of Bolsover residents, one of the most deprived towns in the middle of England...

PASS-ING]

Peter Downsbrough
In a long travelling the camera tracks the fences around a factory building. At the end the camera slowly swerves out to a frontal image of the fencing. Downsbrough draws our attention to an inconspicuous, everyday image, which all too often escapes our attention, reconstructing it within his own visual language...

FIREWORKS

Messieurs Delmotte
In a field, Delmotte lights two fireworks attached to sticks. He holds the sticks in his hands while the fireworks go off and makes a few spins. Offscreen people shout and whistle. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...

J'ESPÈRE QUE VOUS ALLEZ BIEN

Boris Van der Avoort
Taken from film archives, this playful and nostalgic ‘montage’ wants to picture the lives and hopes of three generations of a Belgian family between 1931 and 1997. Images belonging to the family possessions take us back to childhood and play, journeys, relationships, dancing...

Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist

SILENT LETTER 15042009

Mira Sanders
The fifth 'Silent Letter' was written on January 20th. As happened in the first, the last letter returns to an urban context. Themes of previous letters are referred to, such as the horizon and the guards, and elaborated in reflections on the difference ''between here and there''....

THE TASTE OF KOUMIZ

Xavier Christiaens
’The Taste of Koumiz’, Christiaens’ first feature film, is all about the consequences of the communist regime for nomadic tribes in the Russian province of Kyrgyzstan. The narrator saw how his father, the chief of a tribe, was deported in the thirties, becoming isolated from nomadic life...