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Silent Elections, 2009 Sarah Vanagt © the artist(s) & producer(s)
SILENT ELECTIONS
Sarah VanagtThe power goes off and the screen goes black: one of those innumerable moments of darkness when the buried memories from decades of conflict suddenly resurface. In the streets of Goma, children play at being news correspondents: Congo is preparing for its first democratic elections since 1960...
LOOKING UP
Bernard Gigounon‘Looking up’ is, as Gigounon puts it himself, a trip through time and space between the astounding and reality. The short video starts with a sky at night, accompanied by the mesmerising sound of an army of crickets. We look up, as the image evolves very slowly it becomes clear to us that the thing we thought to have seen is not actually what it was, or is...
MONU-MENTAL
Krassimir TerzievAn observation of public space that is popular among youth communities in Sofia (the park in front of the Monument of the Soviet army). A place to spare time in chatting, drinking, smoking, practicing urban sports or just hanging around...
LESSEN IN BESCHEIDENHEID
Stefaan DecostereDecostere looks at the inherent paradox in the conception of the future by scientists from the San Francisco area, who praise the merits of an on-line virtual community which will ultimately allow users to never having to leave the periphery of their neighbourhoods...
LE MAL DES ARDENTS
Alice BrygoA stunned crowd faces a fire. The threat has no name, a diffuse anguish spreads. Fear needs to be conjured, fire must be turned into a sign....
UNIVERSAL STORY
Jung-Kyun ShinThis work starts with the artist visiting the military unit in which he served. It features his recollection of military service, a trip to the places in the narrative, and drawings of his memories. The artist juxtaposes his memories of military service with private memories, asking if special memories are general for all Korean men, related to a rite of passage....
WE HAD FUN YESTERDAY
Marion GuillardWhen I was younger, I hated my body as much as I was obsessed by images of "Nature". On the one hand, I told myself they were sublime, and that's why they existed, and on the other, I felt that as a woman, if people didn't look at me, I'd disappear. The film runs around my character's experience...
VOYELLES
Hänzel & GretzelFirst published in 1883, Voyelles is one of Rimbaud best known poem. Several interpretations have been hypothesised, but none of them seems to be adequate to close the debate. Starting from the evocative power of the poem, Hänzel & Gretzel conceived a dreamy illustration of this famous poem...
THE VANITAS RECORD
Koen TheysVanitas is Latin for vanity. A Vanitas painting is a form of a still life consisting of a collection of objects that symbolise the brevity of human life and the transience of earthly pleasures and achievements. Vanitas paintings were most popular in the Netherlands of the sixteenth and seventeenth century...
