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Silent Elections, 2009 Sarah Vanagt © the artist(s) & producer(s)
SILENT ELECTIONS
Sarah VanagtThe power goes off and the screen goes black: one of those innumerable moments of darkness when the buried memories from decades of conflict suddenly resurface. In the streets of Goma, children play at being news correspondents: Congo is preparing for its first democratic elections since 1960...
DE ZANGER DEMODOKOS
Jan Vromman'De zanger Demodokos' returns to the basics of our culture. In a short meditation about the role of text and music, of seeing and blindness, Jan Vromman evokes the blind singer from Homer - the darling of the muses. In this touching short film the blind Tcha Limberger sings the Homer's text, and plays Kris Defoort's music on clarinet. "The worst crime man commits is against himself...
FOOTBALLEUR
Michel FrançoisFor Michel François, beauty is to be found in everyday life, where emotion and astonishment are waiting. Begging in the Barcelonian Ramblas is a true matter of art and genius as Footballeur’s protagonist proves. This old soccer player sitting on the sidewalk keeps the ball bouncing in the air with his feet. For as long as he wants. Come rain or shine....
THE TRAVELOGUE SERIES
Stefaan DecostereIn 1979, Stefaan Decostere took on his job with the BRTN. Ever since that moment he is considered as one of the most innovative television-makers. With new image forms Decostere explores mostly complex ideas. His five-piece The Travelogue Series is generally considered as the magnum opus of his oeuvre...
VASCULUM
Pieter GeenenIn speaking about what's far, exotic and unknown lies what's close and familiar. vasculum turns to the central region of the province of Limburg in Flanders, Belgium. The artist's own native land. In the twentieth century it was known for its coal mining. Here it finds itself between appearing and disappearing, between the utopian and the dystopian, amidst efforts of preservation...
BABEL
Meggy RustamovaThe video begins with a still frame of an elderly woman – serious and pensive. She tries with difficulty to recall a few words of a language which is familiar to her ears, her native language: Assyrian. Like the mythical city of Babel, this neo-Aramaic language was born in former Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq)...
DXF
Hänzel & GretzelA revisited version of the adventures of Ulysses, fixed on his interface and succumbing to the song of a numerical siren. A metaphor on the man Hô, alone with the machine....
JAC & JERI
Roy Villevoye - Jan DietvorstRecorded in Agats (Papua) on October 6th 2001 and in Capelle aan den Ijsse (Netherlands) on March 1st 2002, Jac & Jeri gives an account about a shared history. Jeri talks about Jac's holdings, staying and activities in the Asmat region. Alternatively we see, in his home in the Netherlands, Jac watching on tv the report of Jeri...
