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SUSPENSION

Nicolas Provost
In soundless Suspension, mirrored images develop before one’s eyes like animated black-and-white Rorschach inkblots. White mirrored smoke is pulsed from the dark background towards the camera...

SCISSORS

Messieurs Delmotte
Armed with two pairs of scissors, Messieurs Delmotte works on a tree’s new hair style....

PREHISTORICAL STILLS

Charley Case
Case follows the Brussels-based artist, performer and actor Dirk Hendrikx to his atelier where he performs ‘Prehistorical stills’, an intensive piece of body art involving earth and fire – but also sawdust, stones and a couple of nails. We witness how this singular artist makes ‘paintings’ from the positive imprint of his body....

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 08. WHY I STOPPED GOING TO FOREIGN FILMS

Steve Reinke
Cross-cut images of Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev, Buñuel’s Viridiana or Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria with scenes of homosexual sex....

CHALK TRACE

Esther Johnson
As a child in the 1950s, Ron Cockroft drew a chalk line from his school in Oldham to his home in Chadderton. CHALK TRACE commemorates and reanimates his graffiti journey through a now much-changed network of streets. The film was photographed in the original streets of Oldham as they stand today – over 60 years after Ron’s original graffiti...

PIECES FOR TUMBLING WOODBLOCKS

Filip Francis
A series of different experiments at an artistic workshop, a tunnel in Antwerp and in a gallery, with simple oblong pieces of wood, placed one after the other in such a way that, when the first one is touched, a chain-reaction is set off with the pieces falling backwards....

EFFORT SQUARE

Aglaia Konrad
A single-channel adaptation of the ’Tomorrow Square’ installation, consistsing of two projection screens, each of them show eight respective hours of metropolitan cityscapes...

IJSBREKER 05: HET CIRCUS HUILT

Eric Blanckaert - Mark De Geest - Freddy Coppens - Jackie Claeys
The circus, a world where a laugh and a tear might well run into one another more easily than anywhere else. After the Second World War, there were 14 circuses left in Belgium, a number which turned out to be halved after a mere decade...

A]S

Peter Downsbrough
As basic ingredients: five words and a typographical phenomenon or word-thing ‘(A]S itself)’; two black and white steady cam images, and in between them one in colour, all featuring the same fixed camera image shot somewhere along the railway, from the same point of view — but with a different train passing; or so it seems...

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...