OVERZICHT TITELS

FRONTAL TREE

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte balances stiff as a rod, on the tips of his toes, with his forehead leaned into a tree....

RANDOM WALK

Pascal Baes
A random tour through the visual world of Pascal Baes: images showing his fascination for wriggling, squirming life, tantrist diagrams and psychedelic spirals, microbiological systems and chemical bonds are alternated with edited film fragments from the performances by Aï Suzuki...

RAOUL DE KEYSER

Jef Cornelis
Jef Cornelis made this portrait of the famous Belgian painter Raoul De Keyser in 1971, on the occasion of his exhibition ‘Linnen dozen, sneden en zware kalklijnschilderijen’ (‘Linen boxes, cuts and heavy chalk line paintings') in the Plus-Kern Art centre in Ghent, Belgium...

THE INVISIBLES' PARLIAMENT

Vincent Meessen
The narrative in ‘The Invisibles’ Parliament’ is based on ghost images. Two apparitions emerge from the darkness and lead us towards a still fountain where a crowd is waiting for them. The ‘fountain’ object is here poetically re-visited. Through a series of loose associations, this short film traces the roots of modernity...

VASCULUM

Pieter Geenen
In speaking about what's far, exotic and unknown lies what's close and familiar. vasculum turns to the central region of the province of Limburg in Flanders, Belgium. The artist's own native land. In the twentieth century it was known for its coal mining. Here it finds itself between appearing and disappearing, between the utopian and the dystopian, amidst efforts of preservation...

ONCE YOU'VE SHOT THE GUN, YOU CAN'T STOP THE BULLET

Jayce Salloum
Two descriptions: 1/ Shot on location in Beirut, Bikfaya, Byblos, Jerusalem, Jouni, Kelowna, La Jolla, Las Vegas, Limosol, L.A., Mesa, N.Y.C., Portland, San Diego, San Felipe, Tijuana and Vancouver...

WISHFUL FILMING

Sarah Vanagt
A pedestrian – the filmmaker equipped with a tiny pocket camera – wanders through Brussels and encounters Polish, Iranian, Brazilian, Belgian, and Moroccan workers. As she roams the city, filming the messages hidden behind the bricks, beneath the cobblestones, on the traffic poles and at the bases of statues, the wanderer wonders: ”You may be walking on a builder’s wish...

PAUL VAN BOSSTRAETEN, CULTIVATEUR D’ORCHIDÉES

Jacques Lennep
Video, apart from photography and holography, was but one of the media Lennep made use of during the 1970s, as he was adding on to his ‘museum of men’. His human models were derived from all layers of the populations, but they shared a common obsession for collecting things or, at the very, least an unusual passion...

EVEN THE PROMPTER DIES

Erik Bünger - Manuel Saiz
Even The Prompter Dies is an experimental video that investigates the power of speech over images. Multiple voices – all belonging to the two filmmakers – wrestle for mastery over the footage, from various positions inside and outside the frame...

BIËNNALE SINT-NIKLAAS

Jef Cornelis
For the 14th episode of “Zoeklicht” (Searchlight) on BRT (Belgian Radio & Televison), Jef Cornelis and his team visited the 2nd Biennial of Sint-Niklaas. With his well-known critical stance towards the institutional management of art, Cornelis guides us through the open-air sculpture exhibition in the city park of Sint-Niklaas...