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FOSSILIZATION
Kurt D'HaeseleerThe video ‘Fossilization’ was produced as part of the ‘Memory Lane’ project, commissioned in 2005 by the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The traditional idea of soundtracks as translation and extension of moving images was reversed for the occasion: five video makers were requested to produce a work based on a composition by David Shea...
Rétroviseurs, Laurent Van Lancker, 2004 © the artist & producer
RÉTROVISEURS
Laurent Van LanckerDakar – Kolda, Senegal. During a car trip from the city to the country a driver and his passengers discuss politics, religion, colonialism and African cinema. The landscape changes while opinions are exchanged, rephrased, fine-tuned. Visual anthropologist Van Lancker makes documentaries which allow him to meet people he can share a little part of his life with...
PILGRIM WORLD
Ria PacquéeJerusalem, a city fraught with symbolism and weighty associations. Ria Pacquée films the course of a river of pilgrims from above, following the steps of people from all three religions as they make their own journeys and experience their own personal transformations...
THE SOCIALIST
Hubert MarécailleRepressed homosexual, unable to have children much to the regret of his wife who disapproves of sperm donation, a corporate CEO, disdainful of outsiders, finally reveals his inclinations by going on strike alone, to the surprise of a group of bystanders present at the end of their « Alcoholics Anonymous » meeting – with an unemployed man tired of looking for a job and an office w...
JUMP
Shelly SilverIn JUMP, Shelly Silver placed a static camera in a working-class neighbourhood. Accompanied by a jazzy soundtrack, on the background, we observe modest houses, an old factory and local inhabitants walking around. On the foreground, a group of children attempts to appear in the camera frame and enjoys to jump in and out of the image....
The Interpreter, 2009 Maria Iorio & Raphaël Cuomo © the artist(s) & producer(s)
THE INTERPRETER
Raphaël Cuomo - Maria IorioThe Interpreter proposes a perspective on mobility towards Europe as it can be perceived and experienced from the Maghreb. The video evokes the time between a clandestine crossing of the Mediterranean Sea at the end of the 90’s and a recent forced return. It is based on elements from an ongoing field research by geographer Makrem Mandhouj...
READING FROM A RIBBON
Grace SchwindtReading from a ribbon explores desires and possibilities to create equality in social relations. The work is based on a monologue, which takes a form of a letter. The text is presented on various levels: stitched onto a 12-meter long ribbon that is slowly unfolding, written onto a costume and spoken by a performer...
IJSBREKER 05: HET CIRCUS HUILT
Eric Blanckaert - Mark De Geest - Freddy Coppens - Jackie ClaeysThe 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...
BIENNALE MIDDELHEIM 1971
Jef CornelisOriginal broadcast date: 07/06/1971 Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Titles. 00’15" Official opening of the Middelheim Sculpture Biennial. 00’32" Pictures of sculpture, mainly American and Dutch. 03’20" The curator of the Dutch section, Eugène Terwind, has installed sculptures in a garden created for the occasion, and that looks like an urban district...
