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Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist

SILENT LETTER - QUOTATIONS

Mira Sanders
The text is a series of quotations from Salman Rushdie, Han Lorzing, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Slavoj Žižek. All quotations concern the concept of (invisible) frontiers, and therefore of landscapes themselves....

YOKO OSHA: VOLUME II

Lazara Rosell Albear
The second chapter of the trilogy started 14 years ago as an intimistic, performative, multilayered, sensorial, subjective selfportret of a return to the magical-realistic world of Santeria of Regla de Osha. The in secrecy practiced rich cult, that used to be forbidden by the government, has gained more and more followers from all corners of society in the past 20 years...

DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

Johan Grimonprez
The guideline in Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y is the unofficial chronicle of world-wide aeroplane hijacking. Its blending of archival footage and personal home movie imagery sets out to investigate the media politics of our contemporary catastrophe culture...

LE LIVRE EST AU BOUT DU BANC

Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle Nyst
Beyond 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...

STAND HERE AT THE EDGE

Andrea Geyer
When viewing a movie, what we know can foreclose the possibility of vision. ’Stand here at the Edge’, tries to construct an epistemological break, by simply suggesting to close ones eyes and challenge the entitlement and “knowledge” that so often comes with the familiarity of our gaze...

GROUP - ED]

Peter Downsbrough
A video triptych (And, Here, As...) fully recorded in the area around Lille and Tourcoing, commissioned for the exhibition ’La ville qui fait signes’ at Le Fresnoy (autumn 2004). The trilogy is partly based on ideas around urban space, architecture, transport and the distribution of goods, which Downsbrough points out as a necessary element in the human environment...

J'ESPÈRE QUE VOUS ALLEZ BIEN

Boris Van der Avoort
Taken from film archives, this playful and nostalgic ‘montage’ wants to picture the lives and hopes of three generations of a Belgian family between 1931 and 1997. Images belonging to the family possessions take us back to childhood and play, journeys, relationships, dancing...

BETWEEN FLASHBACK AND DÉJÀ-VU II

Krassimir Terziev
Two cameras are watching each other. One of them - fixed on a tripod overseeing a wide panoramic view of Sofia from high viewpoint, the other one - mounted on a drone seeking the location of the first one in a close-up on the facade of a building....

GEESTELIJKE GEZONDHEIDSZORG (1): HET PSYCHIATRISCH ZIEKENHUIS

Jef Cornelis
Original broadcast date: 18/02/1975...

IJSBREKER 21: MODE

Jef Cornelis - Jackie Claeys - Freddy Coppens - Mark De Geest
An episode of ‘Ijsbreker’ on contemporary fashion. Several designers and stylists are presented, from different generations and traditions. Recorded right before the first heyday of the Antwerp fashion academy, the urge for innovation is still pretty subdued in this programme...