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DE ZANGER DEMODOKOS
Jan Vromman'De zanger Demodokos' returns to the basics of our culture. In a short meditation about the role of text and music, of seeing and blindness, Jan Vromman evokes the blind singer from Homer - the darling of the muses. In this touching short film the blind Tcha Limberger sings the Homer's text, and plays Kris Defoort's music on clarinet. "The worst crime man commits is against himself...
The Third Man, 2010, Erik Bünger © the artist
THE THIRD MAN
Erik BüngerAs a child my father told me about the movie: In a city somewhere, a man searches for another man. Everyone he meets tells him that his search is in vain, for the other man is already dead, but he refuses to give up and suddenly he believes he catches a glimpse of the other man’s face in a doorway...
VESTIBULE (IN 3 EPISODES)
Ken KoblandIn this early film, American experimental and documentary film and video director Ken Kobland explores a familiar urban space: a humble tenement vestibule—“a beautiful abstract space that is saturated with memories, fantasies, and the terra incognito of the everyday...
LA MAZDA JAUNE ET SA SAINTETÉ
Sandra HeremansA conceptual experiment on what it means to start a film with a black image, develops into a subtle personal essay about the filmmaker. This short film tells the story of a Belgian missionary who fell in love with a Rwandan woman, metamorphosing little by little into a personal reflection by their daughter...
L'ANIMATION À L'ÈRE DES MÉDIAS
Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel BonnemaisonEnrique Ariman reads from an essay by futurist artist Derrick de Kerckhove, on the cultural and social impact of the electronic media. Inspired by the ideas of Marshall McLuhan, de Kerckhove describes a new electronic reality, in which television plays a central part. At the same time the visual language also reflects on television, his visual language and genealogy...
VIC GENTILS: MONUMENT – CAMILLE HUYSMANS
Jef CornelisVic Gentils (1918 – 1997) might be considered one of the major exponents of Belgian ‘nouveau réalisme’. Just like Ensor, Gentils parodies arrogance, misconception, naiveté and particularly organised foolishness. As a sceptic and a humanist Gentils observes the failing dialogue between people and the failure of an almost impossible, yet unavoidable, coexistence...
LOOKING FOR ALFRED
Johan Grimonprez"I thought I was safe until you guys came along, digging up all those other Hitchcock lookalikes. Now we will have to find ways of disposing of them." Ron Burrage, professional Hitchcock look-alike...
RICHARD HAMILTON
Jef CornelisThe British painter Richard Hamilton talks and with students of different art academies, at the occasion of an exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts/Paleis voor Schone Kunsten in Brussels in 1971, about how he works and his sources of inspiration...
9 PETITS MOMENTS
Ria PacquéeIn the work of Ria Pacquée the relative and the existential always go hand in hand. In ’Neuf Petits Moments’, Pacquée layers brief shots and images, small moments, to construct a visual poem. Exploring space and colour, lines and forms, light and shade, she assembles a catalogue of images both absurd and symbolic...
Surya, Laurent Van Lancker, 2006 © the artist & producer
SURYA
Laurent Van LanckerOnce upon a journey, 10 contemporary storytellers of different cultures create an imaginary epic story. They each draw on their own style and language to perpetuate the life of a nameless hero. The aromas of cultures, the taste of words and the perfume of travelling carry us from one storyteller to the next...
