OVERZICHT TITELS

LIMBO. THE EARTH IS HARD

Ira A. Goryainova
In the aftermath of global irreversible climate changes something went wrong in nature’s circle of life and death – human bodies ceased to decompose. In a field hospital amidst a forest, nurses take care of patients whose death is delayed....

ALTOGETHER

Herman Asselberghs
The future is dark which is, on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think.” With this observation as a starting-point, “Altogether” fully acknowledges the ideological impasse of the post 68-era...

MELENCOLIA, EEN HOMMAGE NON-STOP

Stefaan Decostere
An essay which is at the same time a very personal homage to cinema and the history of visual art. Using early film footage as illustration, Decostere unfolds his reflecting piece in a setting that calls to mind pictures by Escher and Magritte...

TROIS QUARTS TEMPS, TENTATIVE DE DESCRIPTION D'UN PROJET IN SITU

Thomas Bernardet - Laurent Pichaud
Trois Quarts Temps’ (‘Three Quarter Time’) is a film about a choreography by Laurent Pichaud, ‘référentiel bondissant, pièce pour gymnase et gradins’, which is a work-specific site designed to be performed in type C gymnasiums...

THE CHAIR

Grace Schwindt
The artist interviews her grandmother about her experience of he occupation of Berlin in 1945....

TABLE TABLE

Joëlle Tuerlinckx
Example 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...

IN THE ABSENCE OF HEROES (PART IV): WARFARE / A CASE FOR CONTEXT

Jayce Salloum
In the Absence of Heroes: Warfare/A Case for Context was part of a continuing series of works investigating social manifestations filling the gaps in our lives through media/corporate and government propagated images and idea(l)s. The videotapes present contextualized concepts/fragments of personal/emotional traumatic experiences and conflict...

TIME STICKS TO THE WALLS

Krassimir Terziev - Tsvetelina Hristova
As I breathe, as I sleep, as I eat, as I swim, as I shiver - I am haunted. (Pause 1) I am haunted by places and times. (Pause 1) I am haunted by other mes that have refused to stay quietly in the domain of the past and are clinging to memories of corridors, laughter, fear, the deep sadness of a present that slowly sinks into the cold dark swamp of a futureless past...

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...

PASS-ING]

Peter Downsbrough
In a long travelling the camera tracks the fences around a factory building. At the end the camera slowly swerves out to a frontal image of the fencing. Downsbrough draws our attention to an inconspicuous, everyday image, which all too often escapes our attention, reconstructing it within his own visual language...