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THIS, OF COURSE, IS A WORK OF THE IMAGINATION
Wendy MorrisIn 1917 the Steamship Mendi sailed towards the English Channel and France. On board was a battalion of South African labour troops. In the early morning, in fog, the ship was rammed by another boat and sinks within twenty minutes. 600 men drowned. A legend evolved around the last moments of the men and the manner in which they faced their death...
THE DIVERS
Nicolas ProvostA lonely woman is approached by a shy man on a moonlit balcony. The fulfilment of their longing is hampered by the mysteries of love in a burning night. Behind the woman, the illuminated city; the ringing of a church bell, fireworks exploding. They two characters look at each other but hardly dare to touch. The woman plays nervously with her pistachio green dress, the boy touches his trousers...
LA SÉRIE
Lucile Desamory1. L’infirmière cannibale A nurse is stealing corpses in order to eat up their brain. The hospital's staff eventually finds out about it. The cannibal nurse is brutally killed and buried in the garden… 2. Le générateur d’ondes électro-psychiques Witold works in a bank during the day but at night, he is building an electro-psychic waves generator...
DERRIÈRE LES VOLETS
Messaline RaverdyStarting from an empty factory, a family name, and an archival trunk, Derrière les volets is the poetic wandering of an apprentice filmmaker who moves into her grandmother's house. The film manifests itself as a daydream about oblivion and the invisible, woven together from scattered materials, archives and language games...
JAN FABRE, DIRIGENT VAN HET TOEVAL
John Heymans - Peter ScholtenStarting in the visual arts, Fabre was immediately attracted to other artistic disciplines: theatre, performance, installation art, action theatre, dance and opera. Over the last 15 years Fabre, quintessentially a performance artist, has become a 'director of coincidence', as he himself puts it...
YOU WERE AN AMAZEMENT ON THE DAY YOU WERE BORN
Cooper Battersby - Emily Vey DukeYou Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born is a visually stunning film that follows a woman through a life characterized by damage and loss, but in which she finds humor, love, and joy. With a score that follows the span of Lenore’s life, from her birth in the early 70s to her death in the 2040s, the film takes us from moments of harrowing loss to those of poignancy and dark humor...
SMALL LIES, BIG TRUTH
Shelly Silver"In turn funny, disturbing and glisteningly sensual, small lies, Big Truth is a video about love, relationships and the joys and banality of sex in the late 20th century. It also touches on such issues as morality, voyeurism, nature vs. culture and power, as eight people are heard reading, in the first person, from the testimony of Monica S...
MONTEVIDEO
Jef CornelisMontevideo (Uruguay), 1.300.000 inhabitants, borders on the same river (La Plata) as Buenos Aires. At the end of the 19th century an art scene bloomed here, which stands out favourably against the rest of the continent...
LE ROI N'EST PAS MON COUSIN
Annabelle AventurinThe author of the book Sunny Karukera, Stranded Guadeloupe (1980), Elzea Foule Aventurin engaged, in 2017, in a series of interviews with her granddaughter, the filmmaker Annabelle Aventurin. Together they trace—not without malice—a family history, sailing from one side of the black Atlantic to the other. A history of silences, pride, and revolt....
UN ANGE PASSE
Marie André’Un ange passe’ is a vivid observation of the social and sexual economies of prostitution, an indelibly envisioned narrative set in the Veemarkt harbor quarter of Antwerp. Andre tells the story of the prostitute Anita, who displays herself in a "show window" on the square and engages in a self-deceptive love for her abusive pimp...
