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UPRIGHT DRUM IN WATER
Pieter GeenenProtagonist in Upright Drum In Water is the age-old Montezuma cypress or ahuehuete* (Taxodium mucronatum) 'El Sargento' in Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, which is believed to be planted around the year 1460, in pre-colonial times. To many native people of Mexico this species is sacred, and associated with authority. In 1910 it became the country’s national tree...
ALL TOGETHER NOW...
Hans Op de Beeck‘All Together Now...’ is a tragicomic portrait of three groups of people attending different social gatherings. The camera pans slowly along the three table settings, each depicting a separate event. The first group, comprised of people in their late seventies, is gathered after a funeral, at a table set with coffee and cakes...
LA FESSE NOIRE
Lucile DesamoryIn a convent, the punishment by a sadistic nun of a few mischievous school girls takes an unexpected turn... ...
THE THOUSAND FACES OF GOD
Koen TheysDifferent images of gods of all possible religions morph one into another as to unite in an always transforming new religion....
THE SILKPROCESS: SOME CHOREOGRAPHY & POETRY WITH GERARD MALANGA
Hänzel & GretzelA short trilogy based on Gerard Malanga’s art and writings. ‘The Unknown Girl’ opens with a bucolic vision on the poet’s desire for younger lovers and unknown experiences. The second part is a plain reading of ‘Some Things To Remember About Tri-X’ (from Malanga’s recent ‘Mythologies of The Heart’)...
AMONG THE PALMS THE BOMB OR: LOOKING FOR REFLECTIONS IN THE TOXIC FIELD OF PLENTY
Vanja Smiljanic - Lukas Marxt“Among the palms, The Bomb” is a cinematic exploration that rounds up a seven-year-long research of the Salton Sea – the largest lake in California that is on the verge of ecological collapse, and the resilient community struggling to survive within this dystopian reality...
THE NATION
Pieter GeenenThe isolated people of Nagorno-Karabakh are living in a time vacuum since the cease fire of 1994. They live in a de facto independent country, but remain unrecognized as such by the international community. This area is still subject of an unresolved and long forgotten conflict which is the result of the collapse of the Soviet Union...
SANTIAGO DE CHILE
Jef CornelisSantiago de Chile, 1.500.000 inhabitants, is today recovering from the umpteenth dictatorship and from the exodus of intellectuals. Visual artist Juan Davila (Santiago, 1946) returned from Australia, where he had been living since 1974, especially for this film. He holds a dialogue with his colleague Eugenio Dittborn (Santiago, 1944) about dictatorship, staying or leaving, elitism and childhood...
FOTO-ROMAN
Ken KoblandRoad-video, video-poem, fugue-like daydream: this could be three possible labels for this associative and fragmentary video. The material, shot in Moscow, Beijing, Istanbul, Milan and New York, shows what any tourist gets to see in those places: a landscape rushing by seen from a train, a hallway on a plane, one’s feet in a bathtub...
