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Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist
SILENT LETTER - QUOTATIONS
Mira SandersThe text is a series of quotations from Salman Rushdie, Han Lorzing, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Slavoj Žižek. All quotations concern the concept of (invisible) frontiers, and therefore of landscapes themselves....
THE [AS
Peter DownsbroughTHE [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...
THÉRÉSA PLANE
Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle Nyst'Thérésa Plane’ is an itinerary in the form of an infinity symbol shaped loop. At its point of intersection a frog who thinks that everything is pretty and Thérésa whose principle activity is to glide, meet. A love story between the frog and Thérésa ensues. All would have gone quite well, were it not for the intervention of destiny...
Eth(n)ique Vietnam, Laurent Van Lancker, 2000 © the artist & producer
ETH(N)ICS VIETNAM
Laurent Van LanckerIn 1997 a young Anthropology and Cinema MA Graduate endeavours on a voyage to North Vietnam with two friends to shoot his first ethnographic documentary film. The enterprise is auto-financed and DV based, Digital Video having only recently been commercially introduced to the market. The initial excitement and spirit of adventure, though, are soon to be cut short by a major obstacle...
WAR IS OVER
Roy Villevoye - Jan DietvorstIn making contact with this major historical event, the sight of someone who has experienced battle has to be the ultimate outcome. Likewise a film about a cemetery can’t therefore do without the sight of someone dead. The search for unknown soldiers in the battlefield often is undertaken with opposing motivations...
VICTORIA
Lukas MarxtThe hypnotic wasteland of Southern California (USA) is infused with the free-spirited nature of Easy Rider, the alienation and uprootedness of Michelangelo Antonioni, and the deep transcendence of Werner Herzog. It speaks to us through fragments of dialogues from iconic films, and yet it remains elusive and dissolves into abstract shapes, rhythms, and compositions...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 34. ICE CREAM
Steve ReinkeSometimes it takes a while to figure out what it is we really want....
STILL
Michel LorandSTILL is filmed in the curve of a motorway tunnel. The film, shot entirely in black and white, begins with the ringing sound of a gong, which takes several minutes to fade out. Together with the dying echoes of the instrumental sound, the images slow down as well, until the frame seems to freeze at the end of the film....
LIED VAN MIJN LAND - DEEL 1: DAS RHEINGOLD
Frank Theys - Koen TheysThis is the first part of the diptych Lied van mijn Land (’Song of my Soil’), based on Richard Wagner’s operas ’Der Ring der Nibelungen’ and ’Parcifal’. In ’Der Ring der Nibelungen’, an interpretation of a germanic mythological epic, the composer associates power with the possession of gold...
