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Sarah Vanagt
April in Rwanda: the month of mourning in the new Rwandan calendar. While the country is commemorating the 10th anniversary of the genocide, children play games. Filmmaker Sarah Vanagt spent the Easter holiday in a "children’s republic", governed by genocide orphans and refugee children growing up in the war-torn border zone between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 20. DEAF

Steve Reinke
My father exists in a large room where he lectures to an audience which is mesmerized despite the fact that they are deaf and, moreover, cannot even lip-read as they speak a wholly other language....

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 70. DR. ASSELBERGS

Steve Reinke
It was mistake for me to collaborate with a researcher. I wanted only the bare facts to speculate around. Instead I have too many details. Once again, I have been cheated by History. My role as an author has been usurped by our luck in tracking down the actual Dr. Asselbergs, who remembers things differently than I would have preferred. I thought potato flakes would be an ideal subject...

STANDING OVATION

Bernard Gigounon
The original soundtrack of a clip excerpted from Jean Renoir’s short film ‘Une partie de campagne’ (1936) picturing a river under heavy rain has been switched. Applauses in a concert hall are here recalling the sound of the rain. The video was originally edited as part of an in-situ installation during a concert by Martha Argerich at the Royal Music Academy...

LUDUS PRO PATRIA

Mira Sanders

NELLA FANTASIA

Lukas Marxt
The film begins with an image of impenetrable light gray: fog that doesn’t clear. Or possibly the surface of water? This is accompanied by a synthesizer, which establishes a few points of reference that relate to narrative fiction film: Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind or, though faintly, Kubrick’s Apocalypse Now...

BLACK BEHIND WHITE

Andreas Brehmer
In this video compilation, Brehmer toys around with words, images and sounds as in some sort of visual essay concerned with how we perceive things, how we describe them and how we deal with them. In order to understand what we see, a certain amount of belief in what we see is indispensable. Brehmer tests the associative imaginative powers of the spectator...

DIVINATIONS

Sarah Vanagt
Children from Brussels, Athens and Sarajevo roll out strips of transparent tape onto the streets where they were raised. When they peel back the tape it is left with an imprint of the city: dust, sand, sweet wrappers, insects, glass, fluff ... An ultra-realistic diary that is brought to life by an old magic lantern. Do all these shapes and images tell us something about the future?...

IJSBREKER 09: WOENSDAGAVONDKOORTS: LET'S DANCE

Jef Cornelis - Jackie Claeys - Mark De Geest - Karel Schoetens
An edition of ’Ijsbreker’ on rolling dancing movements, taking a look at the widest range of forms, including cha cha cha, quickstep, tap dancing and the Chinese art of movement TaiChi Tao...

PANTYHEAD

Alison Murray
In ’Pantyhead’ Murray tackles the scary dreams and exciting nightmares of girls and boys in the age of prime time television and decent citizens. TV Girl works in her family’s Chinese Take Away. Channel-hopping is her companion. A man with knickers on his head comes off the TV and into her midst. Battle ensues...