OVERZICHT TITELS

PIANISTE

Michel François
Filmed from above, a beggar with a Casio toy on his lap. A few cents in the dish. Street noise. Pretend playing. The Casio’s sample tunes : Mozart’s Turkish March for instance. Passers by don’t notice his make-believe. They don’t truly see him. When others would tend to shut their eyes, the spectator keeps them wide open....

THE VIDEO MESSAGE

Roy Villevoye
In The Video Message Omama talks about what happened to him after he collaborated on the development of the life-size, realistic statue that Roy Villevoye made of him: Madonna. The core of the story is that by participating in the project he sold his soul. Not in the figurative sense as we mean it, but literally. By selling this reproduction of his likeness he lost himself...

THE GOOD LIFE (A GUIDED TOUR)

Katleen Vermeir - Ronny Heiremans
In the background technicians are installing a prestigious exhibition,whilst a smartly dressed lady is guiding a group of people around a series of pristine white spaces, some of them filled with crates and wrapped-up paintings. Along the way she not only comments on the art but also reveals the building to her audience from a unique perspective...

POUR LA MÈRE ET LA FILLE

Olivier Dekegel
An impressionist elegy about spring, water, light and motherly love, shot from the shoulder on Super 8. Connecting colourful snapshots and intimate scenes the film constitutes a homage to the candour, the cordiality and poetical nature of amateur films, home movies and domestic holiday shoots, which have developed over a couple of decades into conventionalised visual representations of the world...

MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Jef Cornelis
In this short documentary film, Georges Adé (1936-1992), is sitting in the Antwerp municipal library, presents the book Culture is our business (1970) by the Canadian philosopher and communication theorist Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980). Adé shows reproductions of advertisements from the book and reads extracts from it...

THE TREE

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte is attached to a tree with a string. He starts to move, jumping up and down until the string breaks. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

CHRISTO

Jef Cornelis
A portrait of the artist Christo, on the occasion of his passage in Antwerp, where he wrapped up the interior of the gallery The Wide White Space. A short introduction outlines the evolution of his work and his career, focusing on his trademark – wrapping as an art form...

TELECOLOR INFLAMMABLE

Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel Bonnemaison
The famous act of the "poète dans une machine à laver" (the poet in a washing machine). Short promotional film in comical mode for a (back then) very recently finished book by Joëlle de La Casinière, Population active. Excerpts of it are read in different settings, accompanied by the beautiful and enchanting music of the "Fire-Stone" mantra....

HET GEEL VAN GENT

Jos De Gruyter - Harald Thys
In this video Jos De Gruyter and Harald Thys put themselves in the shoes of the two main characters. Similarly to their previous work Man is characterised as a walk-on in the puppet show of life, a cogwheel in the diabolical machine of destiny. Man is unfathomable and soulless, merely an object in a world of inanimate things...

RAINBOW MARKET

Pascal Baes
A recording of a street performance by Aï Suzuki was edited with Baes’ typical time-lapse techniques into a kinetic staccato game with movement and space...