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VOICES
Miguel Peres dos SantosThat one is able to speak does not mean that one has a voice. In Voices, Miguel Peres do Santos constructs a comparison between the collective consciousness and a censored archive...
untitled part 3b: (as if) beauty never ends ..., Jayce Salloum, 1982-2002 © the artist & producer
UNTITLED PART 3B: (AS IF) BEAUTY NEVER ENDS ...
Jayce SalloumAmbient images, orchids blooming, plants growing, clouds and water are superimposed over raw footage of the carnage at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon after the 1982 massacre, with the voiceover of Abdel Majid Fadl Ali Hassan (a 1948 refugee living in Bourg El Barajneh camp) recounting a story told by the rubble of his home in Palestine....
LIED VAN MIJN LAND
Koen Theys - Frank TheysThe German 19th century composer Richard Wagner wrote the operas Ring des Nibelungen and Parcifal in order to shape his vision on the relationships in society. Koen and Frank Theys have treated Wagner’s Ring with an immoral curiosity and have enriched it with personal and contemporary themes...
LIMBO
Laurent Van LanckerIn the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself, in a dark wood, where the direct way was lost. (Canto Primo, Inferno, Dante) The starting point of the project is the 5 channels video installation Limbo that physically aims to stage, through a vortex movement so dear to the Italian poet Dante Alighieri, the perpetual drive of migration...
BUSBY BERKELEY'S VILLAGE
Koen TheysBusby Berkeley became famous as a director of Hollywood musicals in the 1920’s en ’30’s. He was often seen as the opposite of Fred Astaire because for him the individuality of his dancers was unimportant...
SHIFT OF ATTENTION
Manon de BoerIn one take of 50 minutes a woman is filmed while listening to an actor who’s reading a transcription of her own monologues of memories of Los Angeles. Her stories were recorded on several occasions during two years after she came back from a long stay in Los Angeles...
UNDERWATER
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte tries to get a grip on a rock under water, his face heading up stream. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...
KOBARWENG OR WHERE IS YOUR HELICOPTER?
Johan GrimonprezThis documentary deals with the history of a remote village in the highlands of New Guinea. The tape assembles archival footage and oral histories depicting the first encounter between the villagers and the outside world...
