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MADRIGAAL
Lili DujourieA bare wooden floor fills the screen. Encircled tightly by the camera, a clothed figure rolls, folds and unfolds upon itself between pauses of variable duration. Resorting to the close-up reinforces the sculptural aspect of the body. A contrapuntal rhythm emerges as each successive change in form overlaps the previous one in a movement that never discloses the contours of a fixed state of being...
NEED ANY HELP?
Nicolas Provost’Need any help?’ is about the encounter of two lonesome people. They are both hampered by a chronic lack of time. This low-budget film is inspired by b-film genre qualities....
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 92. NOTES ON THE UNCANNY
Steve ReinkeThis place is familiar. I have been here before....
COGELS OSYLEI
Jef CornelisThis is a report on the Cogels-Osylei and the Zurenborg district of Berchem and an earnest plead for their conservation. We get a view on the new concrete buildings at the end of the Lei and views on the streets in the district and archive photographs. At the time there was a demonstration in support of the area, protesting against the local council...
LE LIVRE EST AU BOUT DU BANC
Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle NystBeyond the documentary aspect, the script proposes a reflection on books, through a poetic fiction. From the desert of Nomala, Theresa Plane and Professor Codca make their way towards the star "Without a doubt". On the star they meet Nadin the Angel. A dialogue ensues during which multiple aspects of books are touched upon...
DE WACHTKAMER
Luc Gobyn - Jan VrommanAn animation film of a 20 meter long drawing on an organ book. Drawings by Luc Gobyn....
THE DRESS
Ken KoblandTHE DRESS is a projection prop created for a performance piece at the Art Institute in 1984. It was installed in March 2021, suspended in front of a building on the Bowery as both a memorial to my grandmother, a Hungarian immigrant and master seamstress, and to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, which occurred a few blocks north of this site. (EJay Sims) ...
OUR CITY
Maria TarantinoThis is Brussels, the capital of Europe, a city of concrete cages wrapped in glass, planned by businessmen and politicians, set in motion by construction workers, and animated by office people. But there, in the narrow spaces just beyond the reach of bureaucracy, lies the Brussels that still breathes...
PANTYHEAD
Alison MurrayIn ’Pantyhead’ Murray tackles the scary dreams and exciting nightmares of girls and boys in the age of prime time television and decent citizens. TV Girl works in her family’s Chinese Take Away. Channel-hopping is her companion. A man with knickers on his head comes off the TV and into her midst. Battle ensues...
