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NOT TORN (ASUNDER FROM THE VERY START)

Steve Reinke
For Reinke video does not place itself in the lineage history / documentary, but in that of dream / art. The video heads off with ghostly, almost surreal archival footage of a dance recital from the Marial Mosher studio, at the Capitol Theatre in Halifax, 1939, to subsequently explore the antagonistic relation between conscience and unconsciousness...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 11. ROOM

Steve Reinke
Finally, with the help of three-dimensional imaging software, a method for generating truly postmodern narratives is realized....

SUICIDE

Shelly Silver
"suicide is a feature-length fiction of a woman’s voyage through the malls, airports and train stations of Asia, Europe and Central America, chronicling her fiercely hopeful and desperate search for a reason to continue living...

BAYINDO

Paul Shemisi Betutua
In a story about traditional medicine, spirituality, and decolonization, Bayindo takes us to Kinshasa in the DR Congo. The film dives into the heart of the animist community "Kintuadi Tuka Kongo", a group that attempts to restore the customs and the ancestral faiths destroyed by the arrival of the missionaries and colonizers....

MÉDÉE

Michel Lorand
The Medea installation is made up of a large, square table with four video monitors. A single actor or actress is seen on three of the four monitors, from the waist up and frontal. The fourth monitor shows only text. The starting point is a short prose piece written by Lorand about a young woman intending to kill her two children after the end of her relationship with their father...

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’...

UN HOMME DE BIENS (ANDRÉ DAGNIAU)

Jacques Lennep
André Dagniau collects everything people no longer need. With the things he collects he helps other people....

AN ORDER OF THINGS

Grace Schwindt
The performance took place at the Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe in September 2014. One performer is hovering horizontally a meter above the ground and the other, a magician, is sitting on a chair in a corner, turned away from the audience. She gets up four times to carry out dance choreographies and then sits down again...

CAMPING COSMOS

Jan Bucquoy
On a campsite at the Belgian coast, the delegate of the Ministry of culture Jan Bucquoy must bring culture nearer to the working class. But the residents of this caravan park prefer to look at soccer, a boxing-match or a beauty-contest. They are not interested in an interview with the famous writer Pierre Mertens...

QUE SERÁ SERÁ: SOSIE D'ELVIS

Jacques Lederlin - Joëlle de La Casinière
In a tournament of look-alikes, the winner is a robot that resembles Elvis Presley perfectly. A man is singing about this strange event....