OVERZICHT TITELS

BROKENDOWN DREAM

Messieurs Delmotte
The work of Messieurs Delmotte is situated somewhere between reality and the improbable, somewhere between playfulness and dilettantism. Delmotte, who is one person, despite his adopted plural title, is immediately distinguished (distinguishes himself) by his outward appearance. He could be regarded as a strange, updated version of a 19th-century dandy or even as a 21st-century Buster Keaton...

atlantis, 2008, Pieter Geenen © the artist. Courtesy of Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp

ATLANTIS

Pieter Geenen
In 2009 the construction of the Three Gorges Dam on the Chinese Yangtze River was completed. As a result of this construction, 632 sq km of land a distance of 660 km upstream flooded up to a level of 175 m. Numerous social and environmental issues related to its construction made this dam one of the world’s most controversial projects in recent history...

TRAVELOGUE 2: THE METAMORPHOSES OF TINTIN

Stefaan Decostere
This episode guides us through the African Museum in Brussels and explores the different ways of the fabrication of exoticism: how to make Africa exotic, and Brussels, and Nature, and Morale, and why not Anything, such as this Travelogue: an exotic critique...

EUROPALIA: STEDELIJK MUSEUM AMSTERDAM 60-70

Jef Cornelis
Dutch and International Art, 1960 to 1970: the exhibitions of works from the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam were prepared by the museum for Europalia and presented at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Geert Bekaert talks to the director of the Stedelijk Museum, M. de Wilde, and this conversation is alternated with pictures of the works from the collection. Original broadcast date: 24/09/1971...

LA DANSE DES QUAIS / DE KAAIENDANS

Rébecca Fruitman
Produced thanks to a range of local partners, the Super 8 Project explores the audiovisual memory of the historic Quay district located in and around the former Port of Brussels...

DE STOEL RECHTS VAN MIJ / LA CHAISE À MA DROITE

Jan Vromman
A collection of 43 films that Vromman made in between 2002 and 2003, a part of 'De stoel waarop ik zit / La chaise sur laquelle je suis assis / The Chair I Sit Upon': - 01. Le spectacle va commencer / 01. The show is about to begin- 02. Ik dacht aan mijn stad en de mensen / 02. Je pensais à ma ville et aux gens / 02. I thought of my town and its people- 03. Moederken / 03...

PLUS KERN (GENT)

Jef Cornelis

NOTES ON BEING ON THE WAY

Mira Sanders
The film presents notes on “being on the way” from 'Un journal d'un usager de l'espace. Het traceren van op en rond een Heerweg' ('Diary of a User of Space. Tracing on and around a Roman road'), the thesis Sanders is working on to get her PhD in the Arts...

VERLIEFDE HARTEN OF DE LISTEN ENER JONKER

Jef Cornelis
In the mid-1970s artist and author Pjeeroo Robjee wrote a popular farce that played in the region where he lived. The play was performed in a popular theatre near Ghent by the locals. Cornelis filmed the entire performance, both onstage, offstage and backstage. During the preparations, we see the actors-locals being made up. While the public enters, the tension rises...

OJO GUAREÑA

Edurne Rubio
In the film OJO GUAREÑA we join a group of speleologists that enter the gigantic cave of the same name in Burgos, Spain. We barely notice the prehistoric traces and the contours of the spaces, but we can hear all the better: drops of water that, for ages, have been recreating the shape of the cave and continue to do so to date, as well as echoes of human footsteps...