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GENT, 10 JUNI 1989, VOOR GERALDINE NEREA (PART OF PAS DE DANSE)

Jan Vromman
In this video Vromman shows us virtuoso how a “plan séquence” is capable of exploring a given spatial arrangement notably an abandoned church in Ghent. It is as though the camera possesses a will of its own, or, more appropriately, as it became itself a dancer within the given space...

LE RITUEL DES 16 FACES

Danièle Nyst - Jacques Louis Nyst
It is the year 25 in the Tsyn era. The Earth is threatened by a liquid invader and a resistance committee has sought shelter in a large basement. Terril Songe is one of its guards. Her day always begins with the 16 Faces Ritual. With her mutant friend, the strange bird of Nedea, she goes around the shelter wishing all the resistance fighters a good day...

ANESTHÉSIE

Hänzel & Gretzel
With Doctor Terror, the anaesthesia always goes wrong. A trashy music video for the French electro-dada group Geins ’t Naït with whom Hänzel & Gretzel collaborated frequently....

OUAF OUAF

Hänzel & Gretzel
An energetic scratched music video made for the French combo Double Nelson. Welcome to a great nonsense party (dogs and ducks allowed)....

SPIEGEL

Lili Dujourie
A mirror and a fireplace are reflected. A naked woman enters the frame; stands up next to the fireplace ... We see her nude reflection in the mirror, standing off-camera, before she enters the camera's active zone. From our observation point, we see her walk forward, breaking the threshold of the camera's field of vision but still reflected in the mirror...

TENANT

Grace Schwindt
In Tenant, the family home becomes the stage to re-enact a scripted dialogue that takes as a starting point a story about Mrs. Schumacher who was the lodger of the artist's grandfather in Berlin during the Second World War. She was a communist and helped Vladimir Lenin travel from Switzerland to Russia in 1917 after the February Revolution broke out...

OREJONA (OP WEG NAAR EEN ECOLOGISCHE ARCHITECTUUR)

Cherica Convents
Orejona is a mythological goddess who brought love to the Earth. It is also the name of an ecological house in Belgium that was designed in the second half of the 1970s and built by the eponymous group of architects. The house is an early experiment with energy and architecture: electricity is not provided by a nuclear power station, but by a wind turbine and solar panels...

OJO GUAREÑA

Edurne Rubio
In the film OJO GUAREÑA we join a group of speleologists that enter the gigantic cave of the same name in Burgos, Spain. We barely notice the prehistoric traces and the contours of the spaces, but we can hear all the better: drops of water that, for ages, have been recreating the shape of the cave and continue to do so to date, as well as echoes of human footsteps...

L'ÉNIGME DU SPHINX

Jef Cornelis
The work of architect Charles Vandenhove is an exploration of architecture in its fundamental simplicity and inevitable variety of form. His work, and in addition today’s architecture, is explained in the Liège Hotel Torrentius, a mansion from the 16th century being renovated, and this document’s focal point...

IJSBREKER 14: LITERAIRE TIJDSCHRIFTEN

Jef Cornelis - Mark De Geest - Karel Schoetens - Jackie Claeys
During the beginning of the eighties there were about eighty different literary magazines in Flanders, even though in the overall picture renowned editors and authors were few and far between. This episode of ‘Ijsbreker’ came about following the creation of two new magazines from the ashes of the Nieuw Vlaams Tijdschrift: the Nieuw Wereldtijdschrift (NWT) and Diogenes...