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THE FINE ARTS

Cooper Battersby - Emily Vey Duke
In ’The Fine Arts’, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby mock their own lack of inspiration: a woman confesses that she’s speaking French in the nude because she has no good ideas but admits that her solution is unoriginal. "I hate the fine arts, I am disgusted by the fine arts, because, um, the fine arts are always made with artifice."...

SCRUB SOLO 1: SOLONELINESS

Antonin De Bemels
Scrub Solo 1: ’Soloneliness’ is the first film experiment between Antonin De Bemels and choreographer Bud Blumenthal. A dancer facing a mirror, in a fixed frame, tries to catch his own reflection, the body incessantly turning round on itself. At times there is no more than an abstraction of white light, while at others his hand seems to pass through the mirror...

FLASHFORWARD

Eran Schaerf - Eva Meyer
The work of Meyer and Schaerf explores the transitional area between the meaningless and the meaningful, especially the process during which unrelated scraps of meaning move between various possibilities, ultimately converging into a cluster of emotions and associations. At the same time traditional sign systems of language, image and sound are undermined and new relations are proposed...

Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist

SILENT LETTERS

Mira Sanders
Silent letter is divided into six monitors. Five of them present a video sequence in which lines of sharing, contours, observation, positioning (1 x n) in the landscape, urban space, and the artist studio, are introduced. Each video, inscribed with a date, delivers the story of a foreign observer. This story is subtitled on a black screen...

TALAEEN A JUNUUB / UP TO THE SOUTH

Jayce Salloum - Walid Raad
This documentary examines consequences of and forms of resistance to the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon as well as how such issues are (mis)represented in the West. The film is a close examination of ideas and figures that have become tied to the region: terrorism, colonialism, occupation, resistance, collaboration and experts/leaders...

A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF CLARITY

Emmanuel Van der Auwera
Teenagers are watching a video on internet while videotaping their own reactions. Fragments after fragments, this loose community express their comments and witness a deep trouble in an ever more invading off-camera space. We are caught between two images: the missing one being watched and the image of the spectator. This ultra thin angle opens a breach on the multiple dimensions of dismay...

A FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH OSCAR

Mira Sanders
The video A First Encounter with Oscar is a reconstruction of Sanders’ physical encounter with Oscar Niemeyer’s Rashid Karami International Fair in Tripoli, Lebanon. In the image, Mira Sanders’ body and camera play with the lines the architect has drawn. The diptych editing confronts the various points of view, engages them in a dialogue and creates an imbalance...

PALE PEKO BANTU

Bram Van Paesschen
‘Pale Peko Bantu Mambo Ayi Kosake’ (‘Wherever There Are People, Problems Are Never Lacking’) proposes, in the artist’s typically tongue-in-cheek way, an extreme case of how far the rapport of a documentary filmmaker and his subject, along with his subject’s identification with the story, can go...

ARBRE + PLUIE

Michel François
Rain ticks against a window. Through the window and through the droplets, we see a tree. This everyday image, usually overlooked, points out the poetic contrast between a continual time and a specific one....

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...