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THE OTHER SIDE

Peter Downsbrough
In his early work Downsbrough was already trying to generate syntax between place and meaning, language and space. ’The Other Side’ shows two aspects of the urbane surroundings: the anonymous commotion of the city centre and the intimate alienation within the flats. A street scene is followed by a long shot of a bickering man and woman, the camera keeps close after them...

LUISTER VAN SPANJE

Jef Cornelis
For the current art events programme Kunst-Zaken, Cornelis made this short film. It opens with a fragment of a traditional Spanish dance, performed on the occasion of the grand dance festival España baila, which was organized in the context of Europalia Spain in 1985...

FAVORITKA

Alina Zhdanova
Every time memories are thought back on, they get rewritten into new memories over and over. The experiences that get recalled for hundreds and thousands of times, turn into beliefs. Recalling and saving the memories, which get renewed and rewritten, one single line of memories could be followed. The theme of work is “Recalling”...

TURKEY

Messieurs Delmotte
In this video Messieurs Delmotte juggles about with a turkey. He appears and disappears; his face is hidden behind the beast, creating an impression that the turkey is taking poses in before the camera. Delmotte, a self-declared poser, sneers at the institutionalised art world with his mischievous and surprising actions, trivial in content and simple in form...

FILMISCHE SNELSCHETSEN 2

Filip Francis
In Filmische snelschetsen 2, Filip Francis gives another account of his quickly edited film sketches. Shot in super-8, he juxtaposes short sequences of interiors view of his atelier and artworks to external views of several neighbourhood in Brussels.  ...

MEET THE PEOPLE

Shelly Silver
"Blurring the line between documentary and fiction, truth and artifice, Meet the People presents fourteen ’characters’ who face the camera in talking head close-ups and speak about their lives and dreams...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 30. LONG TRAIN RIDE

Steve Reinke
I might be ugly, but soon I’ll be clean....

DOCUMENTARY CREDIT

Eva Meyer - Eran Schaerf
In economic jargon, “documentary credit” refers to a mode of payment that involves a bank between buyer and seller in order to ensure the buyer’s reliability. In the context of politics, “documentary credit” describes a kind collateral security that is not only based on the on the mutual loss of trust in each other but on the same time also recreates such mistrust...

TABLEAUX DES INDES GALANTES

Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière
Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opéra-ballet ’Les Indes Galantes’ serves as the unifying theme for this film by Joëlle de La Casinière and Michel Bonnemaison while the Ciné Central, shot from across the street and explored in every detail of its façade, provides its recurring visual motif...

CONTAINER 07: OVER THEATRALITEIT

Jef Cornelis
A discussion about theatricality, starting from three concepts: the dramatic, the theatrical and the spectacular...