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The Journey, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist

THE JOURNEY

Mira Sanders
’The Journey’ is a hand-held camera shot of a giant cardboard model, consisting of images that refer to travelling. While some parts of the model move while filming, the camera itself slowly recedes, finally resulting in a frontal view of the whole model...

SOMETIMES, SOME OF THEM, HERE

Marie José Burki
« L’homme peut (…) bien perdre sa qualité fondamentale d’homme, sa dignité humaine. Seule la perte de l’appartenance à une communauté politique l’exclut de l’humanité » (H. Arendt) « because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place » (T.S...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 15. WALKING THE DOG

Steve Reinke
Sometimes I think I am like Frank Sinatra. Then I try to think of specific examples of similarity, actual points where our beings might overlap, and of course can think of none....

LA MAZDA JAUNE ET SA SAINTETÉ

Sandra Heremans
A conceptual experiment on what it means to start a film with a black image, develops into a subtle personal essay about the filmmaker. This short film tells the story of a Belgian missionary who fell in love with a Rwandan woman, metamorphosing little by little into a personal reflection by their daughter...

untitled part 4: terra incognita, Jayce Salloum, 2005 © the artist & producer

UNTITLED PART 4: TERRA INCOGNITA

Jayce Salloum
terra incognita focuses on fragments of histories, of pre-European contact, contact, and settlement of the Kelowna (south-central B.C.) area though the accounts of several N’Syilx’cen (Okanagan Nation) speakers...

RALFS FARBEN

Lukas Marxt
“We can’t use the same light, we have to use completely new keys with completely new light and even these can be found to a limited extent,” says Ralf at one point...

DANS LA MACHINE

Hänzel & Gretzel
A physical crescendo giving birth to a radical link between the body and the spirit. A fine example of Hänzel & Gretzel’s golden age....

FROM [ TO ]

Peter Downsbrough
In FROM [ TO ], the image slides past a motorway, past countless trucks, petrol stations and containers. Objects are isolated from their environment and articulated in a repetitive, almost architectural structure....

GALERIE DE PORTRAITS

Marie André
In ’Galerie de portraits’, André sketches the portraits of five women from among her closest friends and family (including her grandmother and daughter), composing an intimate, intensely private space. Her eloquent compositions focus on the quotidian, the richness inherent in such everyday gestures as watering a plant, lighting a cigarette, stirring a cup of tea...

WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR

Shelly Silver
"A woman sets out to photograph moments of intimacy. On an Internet dating site she writes: ’I’m looking for people who would like to be photographed in public revealing something of themselves...’ What I’m Looking For, a 15-minute high definition video, documents this adventure; the connections formed at this intersection between virtual and actual public space...