OVERZICHT TITELS

THE THREAD

Hans Op de Beeck
A Chinese proverb says that an invisible thread connects those destined to meet, despite time, place and circumstances. The thread can be tightened or tangled, but will never be broken. Taking this clear and simple metaphor as my starting point, I created a video as a visual love poem about a punk girl and boy who grow old together. Love and death here go hand in hand...

THE [AS

Peter Downsbrough
THE [AS, shot entirely in the airport of Geneva, Switzerland, is both an observation of daily events in a major transportation hub and a study of the characteristics of this building, which serves several Swiss international and long haul routes to North America, China and the Middle East. Overall, the subdued atmosphere in THE [AS breathes serenity and calmness...

POLYFONISTEN DEEL 1

Stefaan Decostere
Polyphonic music developed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the courts and religious centres of Europe, and was a method of composition whereby the various voices were treated as wholly or partly separate from each other. In Polyfonisten, an identical line of thought is expressed in a mirror-like perspective of history as seen through the eyes of today...

KAIROS - COMPENDIUM ON THE FUTURE OF TIME

Alexis Destoop
An exhibition version of the film "KAIROS". It was first presented during the 2012 Biennale of Sydney"All Our Relations". Stripping away character and plot from the longer cinema version, it focuses on the speculative universe developed for the film and highlights the background narrative as laid out by different voice-overs...

CURIOUS ABOUT EXISTENCE

Emily Vey Duke - Cooper Battersby
A humorous yet insightful journey through what the filmmakers refer to as ”the spiritual and material world and its inhabitants” which incorporates multiple mediums as it digresses through various tangential narratives dealing with, you guessed it, existence....

VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): L'AILE EN CAGE

Jacques Lennep
We see the artist sitting in a garden watching a birdcage. Inside there is no bird however, but only a wing of a black bird. With this registration the artist brings homage to the surrealist painter René Magritte....

TASTE THE WORLD

Wendy Morris
‘Taste the World’ explores tourist notions of the ‘Third World’ as a playground for Europe. The title is derived from a promotional brochure in which travellers are encouraged to “taste the world”. The subtext makes clear that this ‘world’ is mainly there for the Eurostractrates with their unbridled leisure time and financial means...

VARKENSPEST / PESTE PORCINE

Jan Vromman
For several times the native village of the video maker, Wingene, was an epicentre of swine fever. Shaken by the mass destruction of pigs the artist made a poetical videogram with some self-made images and images from the TV news. Homage to the swines who fell on the sacrificial altars of profit seeking....

TOKYO-PICNIC

Pascal Baes
The setting is Tokyo-Sinjuku, towards the end of the month of May. Baes edits microscopic images of blossoming flora and fauna and urbane turbulence in a spastic stream of wriggling shapes and colours. The soundtrack of abrasive sounds and scouring textures complements the atmosphere of confusion and anxiety....

TEMPS D’HIVER

Marie André
In the heart of winter, a filmmaker is at work. Her work encompasses her life, the place of her body in within the season, her past, cinema, her friends and colleagues from Brussels (Alexandra Dementieva, Boris Lehman...). These observations by André are visualised in a minimalist way, but also with intimacy and richness in emotions and detail...