OVERVIEW TITLES

PERIPHERAL LIGHT AIR AND SUN

Krassimir Terziev - Daniel Kötter
In most European cities nowadays many more people live in the peripheries than in the city cores. And yet the peripheral spaces receive much less public, academic or political attention than those iconographic spaces in the center that place the image of a city on the map of competitive global tourism and city marketing...

LE ROMAN DE FAUVEL

Joëlle de La Casinière
A musical video book. A screen adaptation of manuscript ’Fr. 146’ at the Bibliothèque Nationale of France. A work devised, written and produced at home by de la Casinière on her personal computer...

A ALEXANDRE SERGEÏEVITCH

Marie André
The story unfolds in the life of a young Belgian poet who, like the great Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin, has African blood in his veins. Sometimes the poet enjoys that life, at other times he puts up with it like everyone else. Poetry, music, play, good food are the elements of his existence...

UNTITLED 2015

Peter Downsbrough
As most of Peter Downsbrough’s films, UNTITLED 2015 starts from a pure fascination for a particular location, in this case Louvain-la-Neuve, a university town about twenty kilometres southeast of Brussels, Belgium...

Extensions, Hans Op de Beeck, 2009. Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano – Beijing – Le Moulin; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; Galerie Ron Mandos, Rotterdam – Amsterdam

EXTENSIONS

Hans Op de Beeck
In terms of content, the animated film ‘Extensions’ deals with cultural and subcultural rituals, science and technology as extensions of the human body, and as the physical manifestation of an unfailing belief in progress, which is both redemptive and ethically problematic. The artist defines the extension of the body in very broad terms...

INSIDE RUMOURS

Hugo Pauwels - Sabine Van Der Linden
Some buildings radiate a personality of their own through their shape and environment. Apparently they exist there, in and of themselves, unaffected by time and human restlessness. Still, every window hides an existence. This is the short story of one of these buildings, filmed over 24 hours, in which flashes of the people that live there and rumours peep through...

ZIMMER, GESPRÄCHE

Dora García
A Leipzig apartment is the chosen setting for an encounter between a Stasi officer and a civilian informant in ‘Zimmer Gespräche’ (‘Room, Conversations’). Until 1989, the Stasi was the all-powerful East-German police. However, neither the Stasi nor the city of Leipzig are ever specifically mentioned...

TELECOLOR INFLAMMABLE

Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel Bonnemaison
The famous act of the "poète dans une machine à laver" (the poet in a washing machine). Short promotional film in comical mode for a (back then) very recently finished book by Joëlle de La Casinière, Population active. Excerpts of it are read in different settings, accompanied by the beautiful and enchanting music of the "Fire-Stone" mantra....

IJSBREKER 20: COMPUTERKUNST

Mark De Geest - Karel Schoetens - Jackie Claeys - Jef Cornelis
An episode of ’Ijsbreker’ on the work of artists who involve electronic machines in their graphic or musical work. In the first location, the Groningen museum, the artist Struycken talks about his work. In Ghent Peter Beyls and Rudi Blondia do the exact same thing...

IJSBREKER 17: VAN TOETERS EN BLAZERS

Jef Cornelis - Stefaan Decostere - Karel Schoetens - Jackie Claeys
For the very first time the Flemish public broadcasting network lifts a corner of the veil which surrounds one of the main aspects of amateur art: the world of local musical associations, symphonic bands and brass bands. From Dutch Limburg a live report is transmitted of a large-scale symphonic band festival. At the same time the brass band Midden-Brabant responds over another satellite uplink...