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YELLOW FLOWERS

Messieurs Delmotte
On a sunny day, Messieurs Delmotte lies down in a field of dandelions. When he gets up again, his body is imprinted in the flower field. This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 1...

DER KREISLAUF

Katrien Vermeire
In her new short film Katrien Vermeire depicts a unique game that is played on Belgium’s beaches in the summer months. When the weather is good, one can find colorful flowers for sale in small, impromptu-built shops. But these flowers hate being watered or rained on, as they are made of paper. Der Kreislauf takes an intimate look at the young players....

HOME

Pieter Geenen
On the walls of the local Belgian Club in Delhi, Ontario (Canada) hangs a banal painting portraying Saint Catherine's Square, a square in the heart of the Belgian capital Brussels. Depicting this specific place the painting evokes the memory connected to it for the many Belgian immigrants in this particular Canadian region, which helps defining and enhancing the community's identity...

TROIS QUARTS TEMPS, TENTATIVE DE DESCRIPTION D'UN PROJET IN SITU

Thomas Bernardet - Laurent Pichaud
Trois Quarts Temps’ (‘Three Quarter Time’) is a film about a choreography by Laurent Pichaud, ‘référentiel bondissant, pièce pour gymnase et gradins’, which is a work-specific site designed to be performed in type C gymnasiums...

DETERMINATION (1)

Hans Op de Beeck
A nine-year-old boy is looking at the spectator through the rear window of a car. The car is travelling on a stretch of motorway; the audience is positioned as though they are riding directly behind. The boy remains in position, staring at the viewer throughout the duration of the work. (Source: www.hansopdebeeck.com)...

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)...

ONE OF US

Koen Theys
In a misty white landscape an endless procession of people roams as in a procession. They are characters from the three largest processions of Flanders. They look like figures from old Bible movies. The men are wearing fake beards, dusty robes and fake long-haired wigs; the women have exaggerated make-up and wear long robes and burkas...

BEAUTY PLUS PITY

Cooper Battersby - Emily Vey Duke
The contemporary fables of Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby propose that existence is abject, farcical, and messy. In their richly textured videos, Duke and Battersby employ live action footage, scavenged images, and simple animations to create episodic structures that evince a simultaneously utopian and dystopian world view...

LE CYGNE ET SON IMAGE

Jacques Louis Nyst
The title in 'Le cygne et son image’ soon becomes the white canvas on which Nyst has drawn what appears at first as a tail or a path. The screen is horizontally divided in two, the lower part occupied by the canvas and the upper by Nyst’s naked body. When the swan the title refers to appears, it may seem that it is its own image that it contemplates on the white surface...

BEFORE THE RAIN (A VILLAGE)

Hans Op de Beeck
On the occasion of the festival Europalia.India and the exhibition Indomania (Bozar, Brussels, September 2013–January 2014) Hans Op de Beeck travelled to the historically important religious centre of Hampi (Karnataka) to make a new video...