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Pieter GeenenOn 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...
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Peter DownsbroughThe 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...
BATTLES
Isabelle TollenaereIs a war ever truly over? Battles reveals a past that has not passed, by patiently observing the traces left behind by recent conflicts in the landscapes and communities at four different sites across Europe. A bomb, a bunker, a tank, a soldier – four archetypes of warfare lead us chapter by chapter to places in Europe where conflicts have occurred in the recent past...
FRIDAY FISHDAY
Jan BucquoyThe fifth part of The sex life of the Belgians tells the story of a man who refuses to or who cannot make love to women who smell strongly of fish. Returning to his native village Harelbeke and then to Ostend, film maker Bucquoy reflects on his aims as an artist and film director. “I’m fed up with making films for some hundred people. This time we’re going to be real machos...
OUR CIRCUMSCRIBED DAYS
Hans Van den BroeckIn 1999 Hans Van Den Broeck made this rhythmical portrait of Moscow. He did not focus on the real Moscow, but rather on the myth of the metropolitan city, with its inhabitants as actors. He wanted to capture the Russian spirit, in all its absurdity. Conflict situations, incongruities, funny or absurd situations, however minimal, drew his attention...
OUR CITY
Maria TarantinoThis is Brussels, the capital of Europe, a city of concrete cages wrapped in glass, planned by businessmen and politicians, set in motion by construction workers, and animated by office people. But there, in the narrow spaces just beyond the reach of bureaucracy, lies the Brussels that still breathes...
INCH'ALLAH
Ria PacquéeAn associative mosaic of tiny instances in images and sound, zapping from east to west, from Belgium to Tunisia, from France to Israel, Morocco or Yemen. A reflection of everyday reality. The video shows an important step in the evolution of Ria Pacquée’s earlier work, where she headed out into the streets with a camera, arranging her images around formal elements...
MENSEN EN EIEREN
Filip FrancisThis video is a document on a performance carried out by Filip Francis and a bunch of people dressed in white. They start, at an accelerating speed, throwing eggs on a wall. The viewer doesn’t see the eggs getting smashed, but only hears the crushing sound....
MARC MAET
Jef CornelisFor the current art events programme 'Kunst-Zaken' Cornelis made this film about the artist Marc Maet. The programme opens with an introduction to the new photo book Roland Patteeuw made about Maet...









