OVERVIEW TITLES

CASSEURS D'IMAGES 1993-2004 (PART 2)

Michel François
- Arpenteur: A caterpillar is crawling over a geographical map, exploring the borders of the surface. - ’Tourner’ (2): A man is carrying a beam on which the camera seems to be attached. The floor and his shoes are squeaking. The camera rotates around and around the man. - ’Pigeons’: A bunch of pigeons are being filmed in close-up while they are trying to eat...

WANDELEN IN BINNENLAND: PORTRET VAN DE FOTOGRAAF JULIEN COULOMMIER

Jan Vromman
The Belgian photographer Julien Coulommier doesn’t deal in the exotic, the eccentric, the technical performance; he penetrates the depth of banality, he is profoundly connected with his subjects. An Inland Walk is not only a portrait of a photographer, but also a portrait of the artistic context, the spirit of the time in which the work was developed (Cobra, etc.)...

THE COMMUNISTS ARE COMFORTABLE

Ken Kobland
... part Bronx reminiscence, part landscape fantasy; part morality play, part melodrama. A film in many parts with monologue segments written by James Strahs for Willem Dafoe, Spalding Gray, Ron Vawter, Peyton Smith and Luche Sacker. (www.kenkoblandfilms.com)...

LA VIE POLITIQUE DES BELGES

Jan Bucquoy
The fifth full feature project of Jan Bucquoy fits in with an encompassing concept of ‘looking at Belgium in a specific way’. In this documentary he follows the 1999 election campaign of two mini parties. On the one hand there is Vivant, the party of Roland Duchâtelet, with a central topic of the right to a basic income for all...

REPÈRES EXTATIQUES

Hänzel & Gretzel
Lies can bring happiness if you realise they are real! A series of panels where you can meet the ever-ecstatic Teresa de Avila, the mightily phlegmatic Anubis and other perverted figures of a strange third mind world....

DÉJÀ VU (HALLU)

Michel François
Michel François is fascinated by the small signs of life, the trivial moments and touches that are bestowed with every appearance of magic at the right time. Beauty is to be found in everyday life, where emotion and astonishment occur. François tries to induce these experiences and to grasp the mobility and the elusiveness of perception...

IJSBREKER 05: HET CIRCUS HUILT

Eric Blanckaert - Mark De Geest - Freddy Coppens - Jackie Claeys
The circus, a world where a laugh and a tear might well run into one another more easily than anywhere else. After the Second World War, there were 14 circuses left in Belgium, a number which turned out to be halved after a mere decade...

LE TOMBEAU DES NAINS

Jacques Louis Nyst
In 'Le tombeau des nains’ two pebbles are laid on the canvas-like white surface common to most of the Nyst’s videos of the time. Two fingers come along, and move about the pebbles, revealing the two black stains they were hiding. The fingers repeatedly attempt to move the stains as well, with no success...

OJO GUAREÑA

Edurne Rubio
In the film OJO GUAREÑA we join a group of speleologists that enter the gigantic cave of the same name in Burgos, Spain. We barely notice the prehistoric traces and the contours of the spaces, but we can hear all the better: drops of water that, for ages, have been recreating the shape of the cave and continue to do so to date, as well as echoes of human footsteps...

BIRD IN ITALIAN IS UCCELLO

Gernot Wieland
Gernot Wieland's new film, Bird in Italian is Uccello (2021), furthers his interest in psychological states and the constitution of belonging in different social contexts. Drawing upon Daphne du Maurier’s short story The Birds, and its subsequent cinematic adaptation, Bird in Italian is Uccello (re)enacts a theatrical production of the horror-thriller...