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4 POINTS LIMITÉS

Jacques Louis Nyst
'4 points limités / La caméra est reliée au magnétoscope par un câble de 100 mètres’ is one of Jacques-Louis Nyst’s earlier experiences with the medium and one of the few videos of the first Nyst period not to use a canvas-like white surface as a background...

JUMPY CHICKEN

Messieurs Delmotte
This time the title is particularly ironic as the chicken is not actually jumping. Two strings are attached to its legs, which are used to pull the chicken away. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...

FAIRE-PART

Anne Reijniers - Rob Jacobs - Nizar Saleh Mohamedali - Paul Shemisi Betutua
On the eve of postponed Congolese elections, two Congolese and two Belgian cineasts make a film about Kinshasa and its resistance against the legacies of colonialism. The four filmmakers want to tell a story together, but having grown up on other sides of history, they have different views on how to tell that story...

OLD CLOUDS

Charley Case
A cloudy sky can be seen through a circular form and, closer by, flames and black smoke can be discerned. A view of the sky through an exhaust pipe? Or is the viewer is looking down into a trash can into which Case has effectively tossed both clouds and sky — and set them on fire....

The Third Man, 2010, Erik Bünger © the artist

THE THIRD MAN

Erik Bünger
As a child my father told me about the movie: In a city somewhere, a man searches for another man. Everyone he meets tells him that his search is in vain, for the other man is already dead, but he refuses to give up and suddenly he believes he catches a glimpse of the other man’s face in a doorway...

ARCADIA

Maurits Wouters
ARCADIA is a non-narrative, meditative 70 minute film; the film contains 7 shots; it has one subject: a lake (and his mystic aura) Arcadia is a meditative exercise in watching; the film was made in the context of a PhD about domestic and performative filmpractice; it is funded by Brussels Art Platform https://www.brusselsartsplatform.be/....

LE GOÛT DU KOUMIZ

Xavier Christiaens
’Le Goût du Koumiz’, Christiaens’ first feature film, is all about the consequences of the communist regime for nomadic tribes in the Russian province of Kyrgyzstan. The narrator saw how his father, the chief of a tribe, was deported in the thirties, becoming isolated from nomadic life...

CONFUSING DRUM

Jan Locus
In Belfast the night before July 12th – the annual Protestant celebration – massive bonfires are lit in many Protestant neighborhoods.These towering structures, built months in advance, are mostly made up of wooden pallets and car tires with some reaching over 30 metres tall...

AS] IN

Peter Downsbrough
The interior of an empty office building in Zaventem’s Corporate Village, next to Brussels Airport. Human presence is only to be found outside, through the windows, in the passing cars or nearby office buildings...

ALONE TOGETHER, THE SOCIAL LIFE OF BENCHES

Esther Johnson
Alone Together, the Social Life of Benches illuminates the thoughts and memories of frequent users of two public spaces in London: General Gordon Square, Woolwich and St Helier Open Space, Sutton...