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I HATE THIS TOWN

Nicolas Provost
"Softcore images on hardcore rhythms". This video consists of a collage of extravagant character action close-ups in porn films. Their suggestive movements were repetitively edited onto the rhythms of electronic music, resulting in a slapstick situation....

PICNIC

Steve Reinke
A collaboration with Dani Leventhal, who shot all the footage. Near death, death and the pastoral: a picnic....

Gnawa, Olivier Dekegel, 2010 © the artist & producer

GNAWA

Olivier Dekegel
A medium-length film produced and distributed by the director, a true cinephile, lover and connoisseur of classic and experimental cinema. Filmed on Super 8, Gnawa is an immersive flood, a sensorial trip to the magico-religious rites of the Gnawa in Morocco, made with such virtuosity that it elevates the viewer, cinematographically, into a trance akin to that of the dancers and musicians depicted...

THE GOOD LIFE (A GUIDED TOUR)

Katleen Vermeir - Ronny Heiremans
In the background technicians are installing a prestigious exhibition,whilst a smartly dressed lady is guiding a group of people around a series of pristine white spaces, some of them filled with crates and wrapped-up paintings. Along the way she not only comments on the art but also reveals the building to her audience from a unique perspective...

THE COMMUNISTS ARE COMFORTABLE

Ken Kobland
... part Bronx reminiscence, part landscape fantasy; part morality play, part melodrama. A film in many parts with monologue segments written by James Strahs for Willem Dafoe, Spalding Gray, Ron Vawter, Peyton Smith and Luche Sacker. (www.kenkoblandfilms.com)...

AMONG THE PALMS THE BOMB OR: LOOKING FOR REFLECTIONS IN THE TOXIC FIELD OF PLENTY

Vanja Smiljanic - Lukas Marxt
“Among the palms, The Bomb” is a cinematic exploration that rounds up a seven-year-long research of the Salton Sea – the largest lake in California that is on the verge of ecological collapse, and the resilient community struggling to survive within this dystopian reality...

GAME OF STONES

Mira Sanders - Cédric Noël
The film Game of Stones retraces the action of a 3-day excavation project of the artist collective The Mental Masonry Lab (14 to 16 November 2014) in connection with Hôtel Charleroi 2014 in the heart of lower town of Charleroi (B)....

LA FORCE FAIT L’UNION FAIT LA FORCE

Johan Grimonprez
An acceleration of a camera movement, a dancer and some racehorses. They all take the same rhythmic run to the climax. Johan Grimonprez sets up a sociological scrutinising of the universe of horse racing and unbridles it through its absurd angels. He comes up with a universe far removed from childhood when horses were associated with fairs and merry-go-rounds....

LIED VAN MIJN LAND - DEEL 2: DIE WALKÜRE

Frank Theys - Koen Theys
This is the second part of the diptych ’Lied van mijn Land’ (’Song of my Soil’), based on Richard Wagner’s operas ’Der Ring der Nibelungen’ and ’Parcifal’. At Hunding’s...

IJSBREKER 18: KUNST AAN DE KUST

Jef Cornelis - Mark De Geest - Anton Stevens - Jackie Claeys
In this episode of ‘Ijsbreker’ there is a focus on the Belgian coast cities of Knokke and Ostend, who also have a history as major art cities. The Casino in Knokke was considered one of the main promoters of art during 1950-1970, mostly because of Gustave Nellens, who made sure the casino housed work by, among others, Margritte...