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We will live to see these things, or, five pictures of what may come to pass, Julia Meltzer & David Thorne, 2007 © the artists & producer

WE WILL LIVE TO SEE THESE THINGS, OR, FIVE PICTURES OF WHAT MAY COME TO PASS

Julia Meltzer - David Thorne
“We will live to see these things, or, five pictures of what may come to pass” is a documentary video in five parts about competing visions of an uncertain future...

TARLABAŞI VE BEN

Jaad Gaillet - Marianna Francese
After many years in jail, Mustafa, a man in his fifties, decides to leave his native village and his family in the eastern Turkey to take refuge in the Turkish metropolis, in Istanbul. From Çağlayan to Kadikoy, his ephemeral wanderings in Istanbul finally lead him in the neighborhood of Tarlabaşı, where he settles and reinvents his life as a waste picker...

GARDENING

Hans Op de Beeck
This B/W animation film offers a perspective on an evolving landscape drawn in pencil. The artist is invisible to us, and tries to tame the landscape into highly singular gardens by shaping nature, manipulating, destroying and reviving it. The spectator sees how the author works out a train of thought in a remarkable vocabulary....

ASS DANCE

Messieurs Delmotte
A short, though provocative, video where the camera shoots a naked body lying on a red surface. The body moves on the beat of the music while the viewer can read a text on the back of the actor....

ANALOGUE KINGDOM

Esther Johnson
Gerald Wells stole his first radio, a Belmont, in 1943 at the age of thirteen. He was immediately sent to an approved school, whose psychiatrist diagnosed an obsession with wireless and electricity, an obsession that continues today. The house Wells was born in and still inhabits is now home to over 1,500 wireless objects and 45,000 valves...

LESSER APES

Emily Vey Duke - Cooper Battersby
Lesser Apes tells the story of a love affair between a primatologist, Farrah and a female bonobo ape, Meema. Bonobos are the species with which humans share the most DNA, but unlike our species, they are matriarchal, live without conflict, and are unabashedly sexual...

EPISODE 1: SO. CAL.

Jayce Salloum
A Chicana woman (Aida Mancillas) tells a story accounting/recounting her experience of growing up in Southern California. Her account is juxtaposed with rural and urban images from the region....

OUR CIRCUMSCRIBED DAYS

Hans Van den Broeck
In 1999 Hans Van Den Broeck made this rhythmical portrait of Moscow. He did not focus on the real Moscow, but rather on the myth of the metropolitan city, with its inhabitants as actors. He wanted to capture the Russian spirit, in all its absurdity. Conflict situations, incongruities, funny or absurd situations, however minimal, drew his attention...

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...

SMELL THE FLOWERS WHILE YOU CAN

Johan Grimonprez
Johan Grimonprez transposes an extract from Meg Stuart’s compelling choreography ‘No Longer Ready-Made’ to the anonymous waiting room of a railway station. This colourless space along with nameless travellers provides the excellent setting for Stuart’s hectic and intense convulsions...