OVERVIEW TITLES

THE VANISHING VANISHING-POINT

Effi Weiss - Amir Borenstein
Since autumn 2005 Effi and Amir have been following an olive tree that was planted in the Parc Leopold, a small and well-tended park at the feet of the European Parliament, and a few dozens of meters away from their apartment in Brussels. The Olive tree, as foreign as them, appeared in the park several weeks after their own arrival in this city...

CLOSED DISTRICT

Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd
The material for ’Closed District’ was recorded in 1996 in the South-Sudanese village of Mankien where Vandeweerd filmed the war, which has lasted for thirty years in this area. Because of the despair and disillusion there, it took him almost ten years to edit the images into a documentary, which is not merely about the war in Sudan, but about wars in general...

COGELS OSYLEI

Jef Cornelis
This is a report on the Cogels-Osylei and the Zurenborg district of Berchem and an earnest plead for their conservation. We get a view on the new concrete buildings at the end of the Lei and views on the streets in the district and archive photographs. At the time there was a demonstration in support of the area, protesting against the local council...

TRAVELOGUE 1: THE DREAM OF LEOPOLD II

Stefaan Decostere
Leopold II was Belgium’s second king. And quite a king he was. He owned central Africa as a personal property and tried hard to change the city of Brussels into the most beautiful capital of Europe. He was crazy about travelling (for some well-defined purpose of course) and founded an international geographic society called colonisation...

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE HOLY BLOOD

Koen Theys
The performers in this video are a group of naively dressed up biblical characters, taking part in one of Flanders’ processions of The Holy Blood. Theys captured the footage during a performance he organized in the Brussels art space ETABLISSEMENT D’EN FACE...

THINGS WITHOUT NAME

Edith Dekyndt

IN [ TO

Peter Downsbrough
The silent, ultra-short black-and-white video IN [ TO is shorter than a video clip: it clocks in at 2 minutes, 47 seconds. It was made with material shot exclusively for the film, plus footage filmed 'on the occasion', while Downsbrough was working on other projects...

VALERIO ADAMI, HOTEL CHELSEA BATHROOM

Jef Cornelis
Cornelis created this documentary about the Italian painter Valerio Adam for television, for the series 'Openbaar Kunstbezit' ('Public Heritage')...

HET GEEL VAN GENT

Jos De Gruyter - Harald Thys
In this video Jos De Gruyter and Harald Thys put themselves in the shoes of the two main characters. Similarly to their previous work Man is characterised as a walk-on in the puppet show of life, a cogwheel in the diabolical machine of destiny. Man is unfathomable and soulless, merely an object in a world of inanimate things...

THE TASTE OF KOUMIZ

Xavier Christiaens
’The Taste of Koumiz’, Christiaens’ first feature film, is all about the consequences of the communist regime for nomadic tribes in the Russian province of Kyrgyzstan. The narrator saw how his father, the chief of a tribe, was deported in the thirties, becoming isolated from nomadic life...