OVERZICHT TITELS
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ROBERT, OCTOBER 2001
Manon de BoerFrom her dozens of portraits, Manon de Boer chose two, ’Robert, June 1996’ and ’Laurien, March 1996’, which she would - and still does - portray over an over again: the same individuals, in the same position, and within the same visual frame...
FANFARE, CALME ET VOLUPTÉ
Koen TheysMusicians and majorettes, seemingly dressed up for a public performance, are sound asleep. They have their brass instruments with them, but their drowsiness prevents them from playing. Time is suspended in this ’tableau vivant’ and the tiniest gesture of one of the sleeping majorettes becomes an event, creating a tension in the image that contrasts with its picturesque composition...
TABLE TABLE
Joëlle TuerlinckxExample of a “film-poème de travail” realised in the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne. A “work poem” (poème de travail) is (about) a moment in the life of the work. Usually the following happens: while holding the camera (and filming) with one hand I do something else with my other hand, e.g. counting boxes...
SPEECH ACT
Herman AsselberghsFollowing up on his meticulous dissection of the Apple laptop (in Dear Steve), Herman Asselberghs now turns his attention to another global popular consumer product: Avatar, the most expensive and highest-grossing film ever. By way of an elaborated interior monologue taking on the form of a film studies class, Speech Act covers a complex of themes well beyond cinema concerns...
LIBERTY: AN EPHEMERAL STATUTE
Rebecca Jane ArthurStemming from a personal account of a search for liberation set in the US during the early 70s, Liberty: an ephemeral statute reflects upon post-68 desires for emancipation, emigration, and education through an impressionistic memoir and portrait of the filmmaker’s mother back home in Scotland today....
MY SUMMER 77 WITH GORDON MATTA-CLARK
Cherica ConventsThis film document is an addendum to the original Office Baroque film that was realised by Cherica Convents in the seventies. The film consists of never unveiled reflections & images of Gordon while preparing one of his last building cuts ‘Office Baroque’...
A WEEKEND WITH MONSIEUR MAGRITTE
Jef Cornelis’a weekend with Monsieur Magritte’ was compiled from fragments of amateur films Magritte made himself on super-8 and 8mm. The first part – ’Saturday’ – drew from the films he shot in the 1956 -1960 period together with his friends from Brussels and from the recordings of his own works...
IJSBREKER 10: LAAT ME (NOG EENS) LACHEN
Jef Cornelis - Mark De Geest - Anton Stevens - Jackie ClaeysAn episode of ‘Ijsbreker’ on the world of entertainment and humour...
