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THIS, OF COURSE, IS A WORK OF THE IMAGINATION

Wendy Morris
In 1917 the Steamship Mendi sailed towards the English Channel and France. On board was a battalion of South African labour troops. In the early morning, in fog, the ship was rammed by another boat and sinks within twenty minutes. 600 men drowned. A legend evolved around the last moments of the men and the manner in which they faced their death...

THE MARTYR

Hubert Marécaille
Finding himself in a dream alone locked in a glass cage, beginning to panic, an office worker, on his way to work the next day and still marked by his nightmare, panics suddenly, – finding himself surrounded by a dense crowd, while trying to flee to be alone, suddenly oppressed by the outside world, or unconsciously, by his inner world...  ...

HOME

Pieter Geenen
On the walls of the local Belgian Club in Delhi, Ontario (Canada) hangs a banal painting portraying Saint Catherine's Square, a square in the heart of the Belgian capital Brussels. Depicting this specific place the painting evokes the memory connected to it for the many Belgian immigrants in this particular Canadian region, which helps defining and enhancing the community's identity...

THE TRAVELOGUE SERIES

Stefaan Decostere
In 1979, Stefaan Decostere took on his job with the BRTN. Ever since that moment he is considered as one of the most innovative television-makers. With new image forms Decostere explores mostly complex ideas. His five-piece The Travelogue Series is generally considered as the magnum opus of his oeuvre...

SPEECH ACT

Herman Asselberghs
Following up on his meticulous dissection of the Apple laptop (in Dear Steve), Herman Asselberghs now turns his attention to another global popular consumer product: Avatar, the most expensive and highest-grossing film ever. By way of an elaborated interior monologue taking on the form of a film studies class, Speech Act covers a complex of themes well beyond cinema concerns...

ISLAND FLYER: A POSTCARD FROM THE ISLE OF WIGHT

Rebecca Jane Arthur
In Island Flyer: A Postcard from the Isle of Wight, Rebecca Jane Arthur takes us on a journey to an island in the English Channel in pursuit of summertimes gone by....

PAUL VAN BOSSTRAETEN, CULTIVATEUR D’ORCHIDÉES

Jacques Lennep
Video, apart from photography and holography, was but one of the media Lennep made use of during the 1970s, as he was adding on to his ‘museum of men’. His human models were derived from all layers of the populations, but they shared a common obsession for collecting things or, at the very, least an unusual passion...

ORIENTATION

Sirah Foighel Brutmann - Eitan Efrat
Looking at two locations— the public sculpture White Square commemorating the founders of Tel Aviv, and the shrine of Palestinian village Salame in today’s Israeli Kafar Shalem—Orientation focuses on the ability of architectural material, and of sound and image, to register collective experience. In 1989, the Israeli sculptor Dani Karavan, completed his sculpture White Square...

SILVER BALLS

Messieurs Delmotte
Two silver coloured Christmas balls are lying in an abstract, silver coloured setting. From the air, Messieurs Delmotte’s feet slowly descend into the camera frame. Hopefully he will not hurt himself crushing the balls! This early video is part of the ‘Century of the 20th Sex’ series....

POWER CUT

Sarah Vanagt
Three boys, Tonton (15), Dodo (14) and Daniel (12), took a series of photos and made short videos during the elections in Goma, Eastern Congo. With the assistance of the Congolese filmmaker brothers Petna and Sekombi Katondolo, the children wandered the streets of Goma with cameras they had been sent from Brussels...