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MARTIAL RAYSSE

Jef Cornelis
A document on French visual artist Martial Raysse, as he prepares an exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussel...

MELENCOLIA, EEN HOMMAGE NON-STOP

Stefaan Decostere
An essay which is at the same time a very personal homage to cinema and the history of visual art. Using early film footage as illustration, Decostere unfolds his reflecting piece in a setting that calls to mind pictures by Escher and Magritte...

1. L’INFIRMIÈRE CANNIBALE

Lucile Desamory
A nurse is stealing corpses in order to eat up their brain. The hospital's staff eventually finds out about it. The cannibal nurse is brutally killed and buried in the garden…...

OFFICE BAROQUE

Cherica Convents
This video documents the thinking behind and making of Office Baroque, an on-site work the American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) created in 1977 in an empty house in the centre of Antwerp. For months, Cherica Convents and Roger Steylaerts followed the artist and others involved in the project, till its final completion...

NATIONAL LIBERATION FOOTBALL

Amina Menia
On November 18, 2009, the Algerian football team won a match against Egypt by a goal to nil, thus ensuring a place in the 2010 World Cup. Public jubilation was all the greater, given that both countries were experiencing political tensions...

EUROPA VON WEITEM

Eva Meyer - Eran Schaerf
Through a number of conversations Europa von weitem relates the Levantine projection of Europe as it is found in the book by Jacqueline Kahanoff Vom Osten das Licht to other projections inside the continents as well as outside them...

THE ALLENS

Erik Bünger
A sound and video installation where a computer program continuously changes between the different vocal incarnations of Woody Allen. Moving from Sweden, a country where we normally never overdub movies, to Germany and being confronted with all these strange, misplaced voices on television and in movie theatres became quite a shock...

KUNST EN CENSUUR (GROOT KEMPISCHE CULTUURDAGEN)

Jef Cornelis
In the spring of 1970 the 24th edition of the Culture Days of the Greater Kempen took place in Hilvarenbeek, in the southern part of the Netherlands, just over the border with Belgium. For the current art events programme Zoeklicht Cornelis made a short television report about the event that features some eminent figures in the world of art...

LOW TIDE

Lukas Marxt
A glacier. Icebergs. Floating icebergs. Cold fog gliding through the folds since eras. There is not much to see. As there is hardly something. Actually nothing. One speaks of polar bears and goes ashore only armed. One speaks of the cold and goes below. But actually there is only water. An element in variation. Water, ice and fog. Can you see anything? Something different? I don´t think so...

GE KENT DE WEG EN DE TAAL

Jef Cornelis
This is a film on country life, on daily life in a village. Someone ’who knows the way and the language’ can feel at home somewhere or is at least familiar with the vicinity. This popular expression suggests the relations between people within the seclusion of their village...