OVERVIEW TITLES

ROMANTICOS DE LAS MARISMAS

Luc Gobyn - Luke Aaron Clark - Luismí Garcia
When you look at a bull and you see the gleam in its eyes, it feels like you’re having a conversation with it. The feeling it conveys makes you feel like the king of the world. At the same time filling you with humility, because you know how much you owe to the bull....

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 25. PUS GIRL

Steve Reinke
It’s partly a disorder of the blush, but it extends further than that....

SHE MIGHT BELONG TO YOU

Eva Meyer - Eran Schaerf
Using films of different genres and from different times that play in or against backdrops of Münster, a female memory activist puts together an ambivalent cinematic memory of the city...

Eth(n)ique Vietnam, Laurent Van Lancker, 2000 © the artist & producer

ETH(N)ICS VIETNAM

Laurent Van Lancker
In 1997 a young Anthropology and Cinema MA Graduate endeavours on a voyage to North Vietnam with two friends to shoot his first ethnographic documentary film. The enterprise is auto-financed and DV based, Digital Video having only recently been commercially introduced to the market. The initial excitement and spirit of adventure, though, are soon to be cut short by a major obstacle...

Caregivers, 2008, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson © the artists

CAREGIVERS

Libia Castro - Ólafur Ólafsson
'Caregivers' presents the Ukrainian women who have chosen voluntary exile to work as caregivers for the elderly in Italy, where they earn enough to provide financial support to their families back home in Ukraine. Living on the margins, they are solitary and elusive figures whose roles are defined but whose individual identities are not being recognized by the host country...

POINT AND SHOOT

Esther Johnson
A short animation in an ongoing series of formal experiments that take instruction procedures and mechanical apparatus manuals as source material. Quick-cutting juxtapositions explore photographic instructions from SLR and Bolex manuals for taking the perfect picture and sequence in time...

DATURA SADHU

Charley Case
A Hindu man is making a skull spin round on a stick. This macabre scene reveals Datura Sadhu as an in-your-face memento mori....

LAST MAN WALKING

Koen Theys
A group of people moving in a central row are applauded by others standing on either side of them; together, they form a crowd where the roles of ’spectator’ and ’actor’ quickly alternate. Mass movements are both exciting and frightening to look at, as their mere existence questions the notion of singularity, and of the individual...

VAN ABBEMUSEUM

Jef Cornelis
For the art programme on television Kunst-Zaken, Cornelis made a television report about the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (The Netherlands)...

IJSBREKER 17: VAN TOETERS EN BLAZERS

Jef Cornelis - Stefaan Decostere - Karel Schoetens - Jackie Claeys
For the very first time the Flemish public broadcasting network lifts a corner of the veil which surrounds one of the main aspects of amateur art: the world of local musical associations, symphonic bands and brass bands. From Dutch Limburg a live report is transmitted of a large-scale symphonic band festival. At the same time the brass band Midden-Brabant responds over another satellite uplink...