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ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK SONG

Steve Reinke
Named after Harry Smith’s seminal "Anthology of American Folk Music,” ’Anthology of American Folk Song’ re-inscribes the optimistically paranoid mythological landscape of contemporary America. Reinke illustrates this by saying "they had been unable to believe in the existence of terrorists. After all, none of them had discovered any repressed memories of terrorist abuse...

EVENTO

Marie André
André brings her minimal yet elegantly sensual aesthetic to this interpretation of dance for video. She writes that Evento is "a spectacle of dance filmed within the natural decor of a hangar. [It explores] opposition, the duality of two dancers in a variety of architectural movements that emphasize the dancers' strength...

REVERSED GARDEN

Messieurs Delmotte
A short video-performance that was made in a city garden. From the weeds in the garden, Monsieur Delmotte rises with an inverted, filled flowerpot on his head. This work is part of the series Unidentified Emoticon...

CHOCOLATE FACE

Messieurs Delmotte
Part of the series 'Century of the 20th Sex', this ultrashort film shows Messieurs Delmotte getting messy with some Nutella....

CANAL

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte teaches us a lesson of balance while he tries really hard not to fall in the canal. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...

TURTLENECK PHANTASIES

Gernot Wieland
Turtleneck Phantasies tells the story of a German writer who worked as a sailor on cargo ships and later, after a shipwreck, spent over 30 years in psychiatric institutions tattooing his fellow inmates. The film combines historical accounts with personal memories, merging the documentary and fiction...

THE WITNESS AND THE WITNESS APPEAL

Ria Pacquée
A serial of three parts, ’The Witness’, ’The Witness Appeal I’ and ’The Witness Appeal II’ address the omnipresence of crime in urban life today. ’The Witness’ portrays a woman standing in green urban spaces, wearing a hooded coat and scarf that partially conceal her face. The camera circles her, passes her and zooms in on her face...

EXPO CHAMPÊTRE

Koen Theys
A white monitor, a white table and chair. The viewer can go and sit in front of the screen. Images out of the oeuvre of the artist appear and move by slowly in a perfect white landscape as if they were floating in a vacuum. Buses, cottages, a table, trees, lighting posts, groups of tourists with their cameras ready, a doorknob. The objects move along in an endless procession...

PI²

Charley Case
A couple performs Rachmaninov’s Piano Sonata for 4 Hands. Their hands caress each other without touching; the bodies converge in music....

23 STOREYS

Ilona Ruegg
'23 Storeys’ refers to the 23 levels of the Tour Centrale, also known as the 'Lotto Building’ in Brussels. At the time of the shooting, the building was completely empty. The camera first moves from the 5th level up the fire escape escape and then down from the 23rd floor through the empty corridors and rooms, always using the elevator from floor to floor, down to the 6th...