OVERVIEW TITLES

SAO PAULO

Robert Suermondt
Although the presence of the architecture and urbanism of the city is constantly insinuated, neither of them is treated as the real subject of the film. As the scenes that show the city are cut up by scenes of groups of friends, the way the megalopolis is approached is ‘familiarised’. It is as if the film assimilated a sort of personal wandering. Even the way of filming is paramount...

BORDER

Hans Op de Beeck
’Border’ is projected life-size and opens with the image of a number of people sitting down in an oppressively small, square space. We can hear them whispering, sighing, coughing. Then a life-size x-ray image slowly appears over the total surrounding of this environment, the image of a truck crammed with goods...

CAMERA OBSCURA

Michel Lorand
For ‘Camera Obscura’, Lorand made a night-time recording from a moving automobile, along an empty and unlit road, projected the dark images against a wall and filmed them again with a hand held camera...

RADOUB TEASER

Claude Cattelain
The water level varies and the bins in the hangar move up and down....

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...

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...

10TH OF NOVEMBER | 09:05

Els Opsomer
Every year on 10th of November | 09:05 in the morning, individuals across Turkey cease all activities - cars pull over, pedestrians stop and stand still - in remembrance of the death of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey), which occurred on this day and time in 1938...

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...

REIGN OF SILENCE

Lukas Marxt
A static shot shows part of a landscape, a serene body of water in front of a mountain. A motorboat enters the picture from the right, obeying the directions sent by radio and forming a spiral in the water´s surface. The boat then turns to the left and leaves the scene; solely its wake is visible for a time. Reign of Silence records a human intervention in nature...

ARRANGEMENT IN GREY

Emmanuel Van der Auwera
The title Arrangement in Grey is an allusion to the painter James Abbott Whistler, who used it to emphasize the ascendance of abstract over figurative composition...