OVERZICHT TITELS

UPRIGHT DRUM IN WATER

Pieter Geenen
Protagonist in Upright Drum In Water is the age-old Montezuma cypress or ahuehuete* (Taxodium mucronatum) 'El Sargento' in Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, which is believed to be planted around the year 1460, in pre-colonial times. To many native people of Mexico this species is sacred, and associated with authority. In 1910 it became the country’s national tree...

Battles of Troy, 2005, Krassimir Terziev © the artist

BATTLES OF TROY

Krassimir Terziev
“Battles of Troy” is a study on the internal economy of contemporary globalized cinema production, seen through the eyes of the lowest unit in the production hierarchy - the extras. The focus of the study is the making of the Warner Bross Motion Picture “Troy” (2004). Starting in 2003 with a budget of 185 000 000 USD, Troy is one of the most expensive productions ever made...

CLAMOR

Edurne Rubio
People who committed suicide and babies who died before being baptised were not accepted in Catholic cemeteries until not so long ago. Desperate relatives secretly sought out a dignified place for their bodies. Burials that shared hills and wind with executed people, atheists, passers-by, Protestants.....

A GLASS OF WATER ON THE BEACH

Charley Case
Case films in close-up a glass of water and edits the ambient sound recorded on the seaside....

Storyteller, Nicolas Provost, 2010

STORYTELLER

Nicolas Provost
’Storyteller’ takes found stock footage of the cosmopolitan skyline, recomposing and mirroring the images to create a slick artificiality reminiscent of science fiction. At first glance, the viewer might think of space ships floating slowly through the universe, but quickly ’Storyteller’ reveals its source: images of downtown Las Vegas shot from a helicopter...

FAKIR NECK-TIE

Messieurs Delmotte
This work is part of the series UNDO / REDO...

I FEEL COLD TODAY

Patrick Bernatchez
Beginning with a travelling shot in the ascending elevator, I Feel Cold Today depicts a deserted office space slowly filling up with snow that appears to be blowing in through an open window....

TOPIC I

Pascal Baes
The French film theorist André Bazin used to consider film as a spell of time. He spoke triumphantly of a victory on the irreversibility and the transitoriness of life. Baes’s ’Topic I & II’ (the painterly quality of its dusky images is for a good reason reminiscent of Francis Bacon’s strokes) seems to question these transcendent views on cinematography...

WE HAD FUN YESTERDAY

Marion Guillard
When I was younger, I hated my body as much as I was obsessed by images of "Nature". On the one hand, I told myself they were sublime, and that's why they existed, and on the other, I felt that as a woman, if people didn't look at me, I'd disappear. The film runs around my character's experience...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 90. VIDEO FOR INTELLECTUALS

Steve Reinke
Sometimes it appears we are reaching a period where our senses and minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation....