OVERVIEW TITLES

HERE IS EVERYTHING

Cooper Battersby - Emily Vey Duke
Here Is Everything presents itself as a message from The Future, as narrated by a cat and a rabbit, spirit guides who explain that they’ve decided to speak to us via a contemporary art video because they understand this to be our highest form of communication. Their cheeky introduction, however, belies the complex set of ideas that fill the remainder of the film...

GENT, 10 JUNI 1989, VOOR GERALDINE NEREA

Jan Vromman
In this video Vromman shows us virtuoso how a “plan séquence” is capable of exploring a given spatial arrangement notably an abandoned church in Ghent. It is as though the camera possesses a will of its own, or, more appropriately, as it became itself a dancer within the given space...

KALÈS

Laurent Van Lancker
An initimate and immersive perspective on the 'Jungle of Calais', evoked by a polyphony of men, stories and feels. A sensory journey through the daily life of migrants, characterised by survival strategies.A film of wind and despair, of fire and solidarity, of hope and hell...

COLOURING IN

Rebecca Jane Arthur
Colouring in is composed of a series of Super 8 film portraits of female friends of the artist who each share reflections with her on their philosophies of life, how they connect to the world and what nurtures or grounds them. Filmed in their domestic spaces, the film offers intimate glimpses into their worlds...

A IS HOTTER THAN B

Edith Dekyndt
A is hotter than B is a video showing the dissolution of a drop of ink captured in an ice-cube which disintegrates between the artist’s fingers. While the rigorous title assumes the status of a mathematical formula, it contrasts with the majesty of the ample, harmonious movement of the colored liquid...

LOW MEMBRANE

Hänzel & Gretzel
“Human kind is just a 12 inch monitor.” In this video music project with interview excerpts, Scanner aka Robin Rimbaud, who defines himself as an “electronic flaneur”, gives us his view on technology and explains how we are seduced and abused by it. As a musician, Scanner collaborated with The Orb, Laurie Anderson and film directors Derek Jarman and David Lynch....

THE BLACK SEA FILES

Ursula Biemann
The Black Sea Files is a piece of territorial research on the geography of the world’s oldest oil extraction zone – the Caspian. A giant new subterranean pipeline traversing the Caucasus will soon pump Caspian Crude to the West. The line connecting the resource fringe with the terminus of the global high-tech oil circulation system runs through the video like a central thread...

STILL

Michel Lorand
STILL is filmed in the curve of a motorway tunnel. The film, shot entirely in black and white, begins with the ringing sound of a gong, which takes several minutes to fade out. Together with the dying echoes of the instrumental sound, the images slow down as well, until the frame seems to freeze at the end of the film....

FRANCOPHONES

Messieurs Delmotte
With a gas flame on the background and while holding a cigarette, Delmotte talks to the viewer in French about different cities. He calls Montréal the little Paris of North-America and thanks Paris for its crossroads. Delmotte then proclaims that Brussels is a deaf city that will end up dying in tradition. He repeats his statements a few times and then he leaves the scene...

UNE FEMME ENTREPRENANTE

Sven Augustijnen
After weaving a tempting web of reality and fiction around Brussels Kunstberg (or Mont des Arts) during ’Mission Mont des Arts’ (2002), Augustijnen points his arrows in ’Une femme entreprenante’ on WIELS, a new centre for contemporary art in Brussels, and more particularly to its key figure, Sophie Le Clercq, building promoter and the true ‘force motrice’ behind...