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DEUX OISEAUX CHANTENT

Jacques Louis Nyst
Two characters wonder about birdsong. One of them affirms that a page of text lies at the origin. The dialogue that ensues is evocative of a series of images of familiar objects and of the snowed over countryside of Presseux Village. The influence of the winter landscape orients the conversation towards the idea of whiteness and silence. The action slows down...

BROKENDOWN DREAM

Messieurs Delmotte
The work of Messieurs Delmotte is situated somewhere between reality and the improbable, somewhere between playfulness and dilettantism. Delmotte, who is one person, despite his adopted plural title, is immediately distinguished (distinguishes himself) by his outward appearance. He could be regarded as a strange, updated version of a 19th-century dandy or even as a 21st-century Buster Keaton...

MONEY EXCHANGE

Sarah Vanagt
April 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. Sarah Vanagt spent the Easter holiday in an orphanage village, a "children's republic" situated in the war-torn border zone between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Part of Begin Began Begun (2005)...

PAPILLON D'AMOUR

Nicolas Provost
Papillon d’amour is based on key scenes from Akira Kurosawa’s classic Rashômon [1950], which are modified by a simple intervention: the insertion of a vertical axis of reflection through the image center. This central axis defines the focus of agency and, at the same time, the sphere of maximum turbulence on the image plane...

SAINTS’GAME

Amélie Derlon Cordina
There are periods of strong awareness of the sacred, and periods of desacralization. The film begins with an image, fed by the artist's own obsession with iconic representations, especially those of Christian saints...

IJSBREKER 11: WONEN+WONEN=2

Jef Cornelis - Jackie Claeys - Mark De Geest - Karel Schoetens
A house is an environment. A home is an extension of who you are. How can we live in a house, be at home in a home? These issues are tackled in a live transmission by Bob van Reeth, architect and teacher, and Marcel Raymaekers, tradesman in historical style objects. A work by both is presented, architectural pieces as places with a memory, an environment with a mind, a space in time...

TENTOONSTELLING DE WARANDE TURNHOUT

Filip Francis
The video shows us how in the art centre de Warande in Turnhout an exhibition is in the making with Lego constructions by Luc Deleu. In the background we hear music by Kraftwerk....

SLOW OBJECT 05

Edith Dekyndt
An object slowly goes up and down against a neutral background. Is it an air bubble in a transparent liquid? Or a balloon floating in the greyish-white sky? Edith Dekyndt does not disclose what the filmed object actually is. Like all other videos by Dekyndt, this short work causes us to become fascinated by the small, the unspeakable, the almost intangible...

COUNTDOWN TO NOTHING

Lucile Desamory
An “autobiographical self-activation musical around hypnosis and friendship”. Made in collaboration with musician Kevin Blechdom, the musical “Countdown to Nothing” tells the story of two women meeting around a tree, somewhere, maybe in a park. One of them is flying around, can’t put her feet on the ground while the other is tangled in flesh web...

ARPENTEUR

Michel François
A caterpillar is crawling over a geographical map, exploring the borders of the surface....