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CONSEILS POUR JEUNES COUPLES

Hänzel & Gretzel
Stuff yourself with lead, have a sip of mercury and get high! This is some of Hänzel & Gretzel’s piece of advice for young lovers....

URINAL AND BREAD

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte puts slices of bread in the drains of a public toilet near a church and films the people leaving the toilet. Afterwards he picks the slices up and takes them home. Delmotte makes them into a ball and squeezes the ball empty in his mouth. This work is part of the series 'Rejected videos'...
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MORT DE RIRE

Charley Case
Someone in a skeleton suit is dancing on a dark stage, a tracking light pointed at him. The skeleton-figure starts laughing cruelly. The boundary between life and death is blown away in a roar of laughter....

LINGUA IGNOTA

Edith Dekyndt
Hildegard von Bingen lived during the 12th Century. She was a Benedictine and a precursor, a poet and a doctor, who invented a language that she alone could write and speak, the lingua ignota. This language who has survived thanks to the description given by the Holy Roman Catholic Church in an eponymous book is the title of a video of Edith Dekyndt which features a hand mirror...
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THE ASCENT OF MAN. PART I: SILENT RUNNING-APPENDIX

Jayce Salloum
Black-and-white images of a lake and a wood fill the screen. The viewer hears soft piano music, alternated with the sound of birds. Suddenly a man starts screaming. The music becomes alarming. Is there any danger?...
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KORAAL

Lili Dujourie
Koraal (Coral, 1978) is constructed around the close-up image of fingers slowly peeling an orange, separating the segments of flesh and throwing the fruit’s sections, one by one, off-camera. This concrete action that doesn't represent anything but itself emits a heightened sensuality...

THE PENSIVE

Hubert Marécaille
Confronted with a complete lack of thoudht while visiting his unknown fatherʼs grave and present at a scene of arbitrary violence, an office worker ends up drunk to forget the cruelty of the world, the jacket over his head as a sign of denial... and an ephemeral victory on the life....

PROVISORY OBJECT 02

Edith Dekyndt
This short film is the second part of a triptych that comprises three intimate silent miniatures Edith Dekyndt created between 1997 and 2004. In each film we see hands — in the third part a single hand — that hold a soap bubble. Are these images real or have they been digitally manipulated? The artist leaves us in doubt...

THE JOYCEAN SOCIETY

Dora García
A group of people have been reading a book together for thirty years. They have been reading it again and again, with each journey from the first to the last page taking eleven years. Once they reach the last word, a very enigmatic "the," they begin again with the first word, "riverrun." The text appears inexhaustible, its interpretation endless, the inconclusive nature of the reading exciting...

PAPERS

Yun Tien
For migrants documents are essential. They determine if you can stay or have to go back. I was wondering how much documents we need to cross a border? I film administrative documents from different people. It’s their paper story about applying for a foreign residence....