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SECOND-HAND EXPERIENCE 02

Edith Dekyndt
The 'Second hand experiences' are an uncompleted series of film installations, reinterpreting movements from childhood. In 'Second-hand experiences 02', Dekyndt handles an embroidery floss and builds a square loop which she keeps on shaping and reshaping with her hands...

SCORES

Philippe Van Snick
Two people are playing ping pong....

ON L'APPELAIT PRÉSIDENT

Marie André
A portrait of Alexandre André, one of the historical leaders of the Belgian Socialist party and the filmmaker’s uncle. Born in 1897 in the Borinage’s heart, he recalls different aspects of his political career, his childhood memories of Vincent Van Gogh as well as his relationship with King Baudoin....

I WATCHED THE WHITE DOGS OF THE DAWN

Els Dietvorst
Sound. A polyphony of wind, breaking waves, shrieking gulls, and rattling ships. The sea: a place of memories for those who survive her, a mother who confronts us with the powers of nature. Circulating and all-encompassing. Beneath her horizon there is only darkness and mystery. The separation of air and water creates a different world. A place where other rules and other laws apply...

ONE BY ONE

Marie Voignier - Vassilis Salpistis
One by one is a fifteen minute experimental film-collage, which is composed by a number of testimonies and texts relating to historical events and crisis in Greece. The assemblage converges the exploration of contemporary applications of the function of myth. To a great extend consisting of filmed photographs, even when in motion the images of the film suggest the stillness of a stable shot...

I LOVE YOU, MY WORLD

Jan Vromman
For this film, Jan Vromman found his inspiration in the construction works at the Atomium, Belgium’s national monument. In 2005, the Belgian government renovated the coating of the balls. Jan Vromman recognised the globe of the earth in one of the stripped balls...

CONFETTIS MAN

Messieurs Delmotte
This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 1...

WELCOME TO DAVID WOJNAROWICZ WEEK

Steve Reinke
Steve Reinke celebrates a week-long holiday inspired by the artist David Wojnarowicz, day by day. The holiday's motto: MORE RAGE, LESS DISGUST....

HERE

Peter Downsbrough
A video triptych (‘And’, ‘Here’, ‘As...’) fully recorded in the area around Lille and Tourcoing, commissioned for the exhibition ‘La ville qui fait signes’ at Le Fresnoy (autumn 2004)...

CONTAINER 05: HET CYNISME VAN ERNEST CLAES

Jef Cornelis
A discussion about the Belgian author Ernest Claes, starting from the consideration that his work is liable to a double reduction in the way it is received. First of all, based on his book ’De Witte’, he is considered as a protagonist of heimat literature, whereas his work as a journalist is excluded...