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Sarah VanagtApril in Rwanda: the month of mourning in the new Rwandan calendar. While the country is commemorating the 10th anniversary of the genocide, children play games. Filmmaker Sarah Vanagt spent the Easter holiday in a "children’s republic", governed by genocide orphans and refugee children growing up in the war-torn border zone between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo...
MOUVEMENT ACADÉMIQUE
Koen TheysThe images used in this work are scanned from a book called ‘Nues pour artistes’ (‘Nudes for artists’). Using morph-effects and digital multiplication of the image, the figures are moving in a small ‘art-history ballet’. At certain moments they express a kind of classical beauty, but at other moments they become Francis Baconlike monsters....
TEST
Pascal BaesThese experiments for Baes’s stop motion film ‘46 bis, rue de Belleville’ are an art work in its own right. The stop motion technique he uses belongs to the realm of animation. He never handles the camera in an obvious way, but shoots frame per frame in order to come up with a dreamlike staccato effect...
CARTOON FOR THOSE WHO HAVE A CERTAIN FONDNESS FOR IDEAS, BUT ARE TIRED OF THINKING
Steve ReinkeSimple line drawings form and wriggle against a light purple background, each linked to a verbal proposal. “Every door eventually leads to the world, but we have no doors.” The interstices between words, scribbles and desire explored....
MY BROTHER’S GARDENS
Hans Op de BeeckHans Op de Beeck based his video work on his short story by the same name, ‘My Brother’s Gardens’ (2001). In this narrative video work a group of young actors – narrators, as well as characters – move through simple backgrounds and scale models and a story is told about the complex relationship between three brothers: an identical twin and a third, autistic brother...
HEIR TO THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL
Wendy MorrisA great number of my forebears fled or emigrated to South Africa due to their religious convictions. French and Flemish Huguenots in the 17th century, English Protestant missionaries and clergy in the 19th century. Though I am atheist-agnostic-apostate i must trace my South Africanism to the religious convictions of my ancestors. I like church spaces and architecture...
LIVING, LOVING, LEARNING
Steve ReinkeCondensed animation of a short text. Completion of the sentence “If I lived long enough....” Music by Sun Ra....
DCA SPIEL
Hänzel & GretzelA scratched karaoke featuring among others a barking Vietnam war soldier, a blind knife magician and hypnotic comments on historical Olympic Games - an early rhythmic work....
TABLEAUX DES INDES GALANTES
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La CasinièreJean-Philippe Rameau’s opéra-ballet ’Les Indes Galantes’ serves as the unifying theme for this film by Joëlle de La Casinière and Michel Bonnemaison while the Ciné Central, shot from across the street and explored in every detail of its façade, provides its recurring visual motif...
23 STOREYS
Ilona Ruegg'23 Storeys’ refers to the 23 levels of the Tour Centrale, also known as the 'Lotto Building’ in Brussels. At the time of the shooting, the building was completely empty. The camera first moves from the 5th level up the fire escape escape and then down from the 23rd floor through the empty corridors and rooms, always using the elevator from floor to floor, down to the 6th...
