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LA COLLECTION QUI N'EXISTAIT PAS
Joachim OlenderIn June 2011, Herman Daled decides to sell off his collection of conceptual art. The MoMA in New York has proposed to buy it from him. A man looks back at his past, and that of an aesthetic and philosophic movement that marked the second half of the twentieth century. Exploring this movement, the film has chosen to hold up a mirror between a man and a philosophy....
MORT DE RIRE
Charley CaseSomeone 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....
THE SIMPLE FACT OF NOT BEING A WOMAN (2)
Messieurs DelmotteAfter having dressed up as some disco diva in ‘The Simple Fact of Not Being a Woman (1)’, Messieurs Delmotte poses in this early piece again frontally naked for the camera. This time, he is wearing a fake pair of rather explosive breasts…...
OUTPLACEMENT 02 (TRAVEL)
Cel CrabeelsIn ‘Détachement’ and ‘Outplacement’ Crabeels researches the possibilities and limitations of mapping something by means of video. In ‘Preview’ he looks at the way video can be used to show the spectator different ‘worlds’: past/ present, trauma/ reality...
CASCADE
Bernard GigounonAn image of 25 seconds from a river is printed, piled on top of each other and accelerated filmed again. The magic of cinema does the rest....
HYALOÏDE
Danièle Nyst - Jacques Louis NystTheresa and Codca question themselves, faced with a televised image of a film from the Fifties. The image has this strange power to provoke associations that escape their reason. It plunges them into a period from their childhood where a little pink spade and a nursery rhyme/tale seem closely associated to this extract of the film that makes them dream...
STARSHIP
Bernard Gigounon‘Starship’ shows an enormous symmetrical axis, stranded on a beach of the North Sea. Futuristic thinking about possible worlds is proper to humankind. For the last fifty years new technologies and impressive means of transport have aroused our imagination on the silver screen, in science fiction films and series like ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Star Trek’...
DARK MATTER
Lucile DesamoryIn 1989, a wave of unidentified flying objects (UFO's) swept through Belgium. A woman, who witnessed the phenomenon, talks about her consternation....
S.O.L.
Edith DekyndtA violet shirt is hanged/ draped over a swing in the playground. While the light and weather conditions are changing – wind is coming up – the swing and the shirt start moving, like they have a live of their own. As in much of her work, Dekyndt investigates in this piece a method of perception for physical phenomena on the verge of the invisible with a touching and surprising result....
HINTERLAND
Esther JohnsonFocusing on an East Yorkshire community which live on the fastest eroding coastline in Europe, Hinterland asks how it feels to live in such a precarious situation with homes fatally threatened by the elements. The black-and-white stock was chosen for its grain, which evokes the location's mood...
