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....

OPERA AND STEEL

Grace Schwindt
Opera and Steel portrays the dilemma of an ornithologist studying the effects of oil pollution on seabirds. The victims he records symbolise the efficiency of capitalism. Schwindt creates a poignant sketch of the relationship between capitalism and morality – and the individual experience in this kind of setting...

FABLE DE PLAGE OU LA LIBELLULE ET LE REQUIN

Joëlle Tuerlinckx
Example of a “film-récit film d’aventure”. We are shown fragments of the course taken by two objects fabricated on the beach and tied to balloons. The editing of the shortened version stays loyal to the chronology of the original shots. The objects work their way over the beach, slowed down every once in a while by obstacles or carried away by fierce gusts of wind...

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...

L'OBJET

Jacques Louis Nyst
The discovery of a child’s toy: a small blue metallic coffee pot, presents a complete enigma to an archaeologist of the future. The scientist no longer has any information at his disposal on Twentieth Century civilization. Patiently he attempts to unveil the significance of the object...

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....

HET GEDROOMDE BOEK: VARIATIES OP "VITA BREVIS" VAN MAURICE GILLIAMS [ENGLISH VERSION]

Jef Cornelis
Original broadcast date: 09/09/1980...

PREVIEW

Cel Crabeels

HORAIZON

Meggy Rustamova
Horaizon is an experimental film moderating between photography, moving image and sound. The title is referring to the English phonetic pronunciation of the world horizon. The film is shot in different locations throughout the world. The horizons, sunsets and weather conditions between these places form the common thread throughout the film...

DE LANGSTE DAG

Jef Cornelis
21st June 1986. With over 6 hours of live television the programme De Langste Dag ('The Longest Day') by the BRT network was one of the main participants in the art manifestation Initiatief ’86, an amalgam of exhibitions simultaneously unfolding over several locations in the city of Ghent...