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THE MOURNING OF THE SEA

Miguel Peres dos Santos
The Mourning of the Sea was shot at Cidade Velha in Cape Verde in 2016. Located off Africa's northwest coast, this town was the first European colonial settlement to asure slave trade to the America’s. An estimate of 4 to 6 million enslaved persons were sold and sent to the Americas from there, mainly to Brazil. The film, like the city, echoes the deep sadness of the past in the present...

ETIENNE ELIAS

Jef Cornelis
The artistic style of Etienne Elias is very wide and it has taken various turns over the course of his life, with new forms and other accents. But his art is always driven by his colourful imagination, drawing its inspiration from his immediate surroundings, his friends and his habitat Ostende. Pictorially he visualises all of this as he sees it with his shifting artistic sense...

REMOTE SENSING

Ursula Biemann
’Remote Sensing’ roams through the territories of the global sex trade, moving us from orbit around the Earth into women’s lives, spanning the globe from Eastern Europe to East Asia...
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TRAVELOGUE 1, 2, 3

Stefaan Decostere
A series of peculiar accounts of journeys in Brussels, presented as a voyage through archival and real imagery, and through the memories and reflections this imagery invokes. 'Artificial promenades' where travellings between views (seeing) is constantly being metamorphosed and developed into travelling between points of view (ways of seeing)...

GHOST DESCENDING A STAIRCASE

Daniel Kötter - Krassimir Terziev
Ghost Descending a Staircase is a video work, one of the results of the collaborative research undertaken by Krassimir Terziev and Daniel Kötter in the urban peripheries of Berlin and Sofia in 2016...
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TROIS DANSES HONGROISES DE BRAHMS

Eric Pauwels
Eric Pauwels takes no pleasure in making pretty pictures, but is constantly searching. He is certainly not afraid of making less obvious choices. He likes to use the “plan séquence”, one long take that covers a whole movement. In doing so the camera fully confronts the unknown, explores the space and the body evolving in that space...
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SPIEGEL

Lili Dujourie
A mirror and a fireplace are reflected. A naked woman enters the frame; stands up next to the fireplace ... We see her nude reflection in the mirror, standing off-camera, before she enters the camera's active zone. From our observation point, we see her walk forward, breaking the threshold of the camera's field of vision but still reflected in the mirror...
Surya, Laurent Van Lancker, 2006 © the artist & producer Surya, Laurent Van Lancker, 2006 © the artist & producer

SURYA

Laurent Van Lancker
Once upon a journey, 10 contemporary storytellers of different cultures create an imaginary epic story. They each draw on their own style and language to perpetuate the life of a nameless hero. The aromas of cultures, the taste of words and the perfume of travelling carry us from one storyteller to the next...
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PRÉLUDE N°3

Bernard Gigounon
“It all happened one evening. I was in a bar, quietly having a drink. A man sat down beside me and as we were alone, we started talking together. We spoke about red wine, women and music and at this moment, I realized that this man was Claude Debussy. I told him that I made videos and explained my work to him...

THE FRENCH WALL / LE MUR

Thomas Bernardet
The video camera records a white stone wall in the South of France in full frame....