OVERZICHT TITELS

PAINTING WITH PICASSO

Koen Theys
The image of Picasso, wearing only a swimsuit while painting a few masterpieces a day, became maybe the biggest myth of 20th century art. In any case a lot of photographers depicted him that way. Koen Theys rassembled different of those photographs of Picasso while he was painting, and erased the painting as well as the interior of the photo, so that only Picasso with his brush was left...

THE THOUSAND FACES OF GOD

Koen Theys
Different images of gods of all possible religions morph one into another as to unite in an always transforming new religion....

VERSION ORIGINALE01

Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel Bonnemaison
Two Japanese actors read passages from ‘L’Empire des signes’ by Roland Barthes. His structural meditations on specific aspects of oriental culture – in this case specifically on the Japanese language and kitchen – are illustrated and substantiated by an entanglement of words, writing and image...

WAR IS OVER

Roy Villevoye - Jan Dietvorst
In making contact with this major historical event, the sight of someone who has experienced battle has to be the ultimate outcome. Likewise a film about a cemetery can’t therefore do without the sight of someone dead. The search for unknown soldiers in the battlefield often is undertaken with opposing motivations...

TURTLENECK PHANTASIES

Gernot Wieland
Turtleneck Phantasies tells the story of a German writer who worked as a sailor on cargo ships and later, after a shipwreck, spent over 30 years in psychiatric institutions tattooing his fellow inmates. The film combines historical accounts with personal memories, merging the documentary and fiction...

CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

Ken Kobland
1. Das KunstKabinett or the Cabinet of Curiosities is a microcosm or theater of the world…a memory theater which provides solace and a retreat for contemplation. 2. The Cabinet of Curiosities is in our heads.3...

CAMPING COSMOS

Jan Bucquoy
On a campsite at the Belgian coast, the delegate of the Ministry of culture Jan Bucquoy must bring culture nearer to the working class. But the residents of this caravan park prefer to look at soccer, a boxing-match or a beauty-contest. They are not interested in an interview with the famous writer Pierre Mertens...

BERLAYMONT DREAMING

Justin Bennett
The Berlaymont building, seat of the European Commission, is a symbolic centre for the European quarter of Brussels as well as for Europe itself. Formally interesting is the fact that the original modernist architecture has been renovated and forseen with a new ‘skin’ or rather an armour plating, changing the outward appearance while preserving the inner form...

BIËNNALE VAN PARIJS 1985

Jef Cornelis
A programme on the Paris Biennale in 1985, mainly focused on figurative art - “art on the wall”. During the mounting of the exhibitions in the ‘Grande Halle’, the camera zooms in on curators and organizers (Georges Boudaille, Kasper König, Alanna Heis, …), as well as artists like Keith Haring, David Hockney and Daniel Buren...

ROLAND VAN DEN BERGHE

Jef Cornelis
An interview with Belgian visual artist Roland Van Den Berghe, as part of the exhibition ‘Free as the Air and Function’. Van den Berghe, wearing a Queen Fabiola mask, discusses the way icons and doctrines are created in an artificial way and the role art plays to break through these straitjackets...