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Peter Downsbrough
From the top floors of the Wiels Art Centre in Brussels, Peter Downsbrough films a handful of static, fixed shots, and pans the surrounding landscape. We see an industrial landscape with the ever present busy railway connections—a strong contrast with the dark interiors of the building...

EXCERPT OF A DAY

Mira Sanders
‘Excerpt of a Day’ is an episode of sound from a day, from an everyday life. For Sanders, the perception of the ordinary, while walking, observing, exploring the space, is always a form of enquiry. In ‘Excerpt of a Day’, the real is returned to the possible...

A NECESSARY MUSIC

Beatrice Gibson
A Necessary Music is a science fiction film about modernist social housing. A musically conceived piece, referencing the video operas of Robert Ashley, the film explores the social imaginary of a utopian landscape through directed attention to the voices that inhabit it. Roosevelt Island is a small sliver of land situated between Manhattan and Queens, intersected by the Queensborough Bridge...

WHYMPER: DE SCHETSENDE BERGBEKLIMMER

Harald Thys - Jos De Gruyter
1865: A London publisher commissions Whymper to make some sketches of a still virginal town in Switzerland: Matterhorn. Whymper is tempted by the challenging beauty of the mountain and he decides to conquer it in the company of some experienced climbers and with his sketchbook under his arm. Everything goes as planned, but when he descends the rope breaks and 4 of the company of 7 fall down...

THE NATURAL LOOK

Steve Reinke
"There is no future in reproduction. I have no concern with any species extending itself through time. You think you have given birth to a baby, when really you have given birth to a bus driver, or tax collector. Instead I'm interested in the placenta, the real mother of us all, forgotten discarded. The softest machine, all lipids and blood, that blooms and rots like any vegetal/floral martyr...

HAMLETMACHINE

Hänzel & Gretzel
Four suspended monitors or video projectors form a ‘cathodic helmet’. In it Hänzel & Gretzel makes us read, see, and wait for their own interpretation of the Hamlet Machine, after the text by Heiner Müller...

CAMERA

Uri Tzaig - Avi Shaham
A monumental sculpture of a semi-professional portable camera made of lead, part of the video-installation 'Look at Me' from Uri Tzaig and Avi Shaham....

9 PETITS MOMENTS

Ria Pacquée
In the work of Ria Pacquée the relative and the existential always go hand in hand. In ’Neuf Petits Moments’, Pacquée layers brief shots and images, small moments, to construct a visual poem. Exploring space and colour, lines and forms, light and shade, she assembles a catalogue of images both absurd and symbolic...

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE I

Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel Bonnemaison
Some twenty video artists from the French school (among others Robert Cahen, Didier Bay, J.C. Bouvet, Yves le Marrec) are briefly portrayed in turns; they produce slogan-like comments on the medium of video art....

THE TASTE OF KOUMIZ

Xavier Christiaens
’The Taste of Koumiz’, Christiaens’ first feature film, is all about the consequences of the communist regime for nomadic tribes in the Russian province of Kyrgyzstan. The narrator saw how his father, the chief of a tribe, was deported in the thirties, becoming isolated from nomadic life...