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DEUX OISEAUX CHANTENT
Jacques Louis NystTwo characters wonder about birdsong. One of them affirms that a page of text lies at the origin. The dialogue that ensues is evocative of a series of images of familiar objects and of the snowed over countryside of Presseux Village. The influence of the winter landscape orients the conversation towards the idea of whiteness and silence. The action slows down...
BROKENDOWN DREAM
Messieurs DelmotteThe work of Messieurs Delmotte is situated somewhere between reality and the improbable, somewhere between playfulness and dilettantism. Delmotte, who is one person, despite his adopted plural title, is immediately distinguished (distinguishes himself) by his outward appearance. He could be regarded as a strange, updated version of a 19th-century dandy or even as a 21st-century Buster Keaton...
VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): L'ÉCRAN
Jacques LennepAn early experiment with the medium of television in the spirit of Nam June Paik or Wolf Vostell. The camera is filming a television set, wherein the performer seems 'trapped'....
BEFORE LIFE
Edith Dekyndt‘3 minutes of darkness’ and ‘Before Life’ are two separate projects, but they both give an approach to the visual perception of the individual of the world: from the nearest (the dust on the surface of the eye) to the most distant (the viewpoint of the astronauts). They were both made without a camera and with limited technical means...
WALKER, LE COLISÉE
Thomas Bernardet - Florent MulotThis film documents the Colisée, created by the architect Kisho Kurokawa, and its surroundings. The two protagonists wander around the spaceship of a building and its moonlike terrain, trying to apprehend its form and situation....
LE BÉTON PARAÎT PLUS DOUX AU SOLEIL
Wiktoria SynakModel City in Brussels is impressive because of its dimensions but the blackened blocks have something frightening to them as well. The idea of integrating multiple social groups in one newly constructed neighbourhood was presented by Fernand Brunfaut in 1958 during the Universal Exposition. The project was subsequently realized but due to a lack of money wasn't completed properly...
YOKO OSHA CHAPTER III OR THE FIRST DAY IS THE DAY OF THE RIVER
Lazara Rosell AlbearThe third and final chapter of the Yoko Osha trilogy. “Making Saint” is an autoethnographic, sensorial and multilayered portrait of Santeria or Regla de Osha (The rules of the gods); the AfroCuban religion, forcefully imported from West Africa with the slaves trade and falsely syncretic for survival...
TECHNOCALYPS - DEEL 2: PREPARING FOR THE SINGULARITY
Frank TheysTechnocalyps is a 3 part documentary about ‘transhumanism’, an ideology assuming that we approach an era where humans, as we know them, are no longer the driving force of civilization. All technological developments seem to converge to one main goal: to overcome humanity, to try and create something transhuman...
MADAME GOING TO A DOG SHOW
Ria PacquéeDuring the second half of the eighthies Pacquée created her ’Madame’- works, in which she takes on the character of a lonely middle-aged lady. In this case the camera records Madame’s presence at a dog show. Madame walks around the hall where the event’s taking place. She looks at pictures of different breeds of dogs and takes some brochures...
A WEEKEND WITH MONSIEUR MAGRITTE, PART 1 SATURDAY
Jef Cornelis’a weekend with Monsieur Magritte’ was compiled from fragments of amateur films Magritte made himself on super-8 and 8mm...









