OVERZICHT TITELS

SCISSORS

Messieurs Delmotte
Armed with two pairs of scissors, Messieurs Delmotte works on a tree’s new hair style....

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....

REGARDING FAUSTINE

Ira A. Goryainova
Starting with the premise that any documentary portrayal has something dominating and destructive in its nature, this short essay tackles the relationship between the director and her protagonist, Faustine. The act of looking becomes tangible through technology, superstitions and fantasmatic seeing...

IL CRETTO

Aglaia Konrad
Over the years the Brussels-based artist Aglaia Konrad brought together an enormous archive of images shot in such diverse cities as Sao Paulo, Beijing, Chicago, Dakar, Tokyo, Cairo or Shanghai. In her new film, Aglaia Konrad brings us to Sicily where we discover one of the most extensive contemporary artworks in the world...

THE BASTARDSTOWN BLOGGER

Orla Barry
Bastardstown, located in ‘sunny’ southeast Ireland, County Wexford (N 52° 11’ 15’’ W 6° 32 36”) is small town, or village, or rather townland. Although it actually exists, it’s also a fictive notion, a concept that figures in the work of Orla Barry, here as well as in previous work (Stoney Scrabble at Bastardstown, 2000-2006 and Foundlings, 2000)...

THE BLACK SEA FILES

Ursula Biemann
The Black Sea Files is a piece of territorial research on the geography of the world’s oldest oil extraction zone – the Caspian. A giant new subterranean pipeline traversing the Caucasus will soon pump Caspian Crude to the West. The line connecting the resource fringe with the terminus of the global high-tech oil circulation system runs through the video like a central thread...

FRANÇOIS

Sven Augustijnen
’François’ constitutes, along with the film ’Johan’, a purely documentary portrait of patients with aphasia. François, a middle-aged man, suffers from aphasia – memory lapses – and he has trouble finding the right words for simple expressions. In order to train his memory he undergoes various treatments in a hospital, among them speech therapy...

ENCLOSURE

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte climbs onto a barbed wire fence, tries to keep his balance, but ends up in a pasture. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

TRACE

Peter Downsbrough
TRACE revisits the site of an earlier Downsbrough video, A] PART (2009). The location for both works, Brussels’s iconic Citroen garage, opened to great fanfare in 1934 as the largest automobile service center in Europe...

LOW TIDE

Lukas Marxt
A glacier. Icebergs. Floating icebergs. Cold fog gliding through the folds since eras. There is not much to see. As there is hardly something. Actually nothing. One speaks of polar bears and goes ashore only armed. One speaks of the cold and goes below. But actually there is only water. An element in variation. Water, ice and fog. Can you see anything? Something different? I don´t think so...