OVERZICHT TITELS

EVENTUAL HORIZON

Elise Guillaume
Filmed in the Arctic, Eventual Horizon threads together the artist’s experience of insomnia, grief, and hope. In this viscerally engaging film, a parallel is made between the experience of mourning a loved one and ecological degradation. Perceiving grief as an active element of hope, Eventual Horizon focuses on the transformative and healing power of these states...

MY RECTUM IS NOT A GRAVE (NOTES TO A FILM INDUSTRY IN CRISIS)

Steve Reinke
Using footage shot in 1938 and 1939 by Ivan Besse, who owned a movie theatre in Britton, South Dakota and used local portraits in a kind of local news-reel, Reinke builds a strange reverie, sometimes speaking as Besse, sometimes as St. Paul, with reference to Frank O’Hara, Odetta and Dusty Springfield....

PICNIC

Steve Reinke
A collaboration with Dani Leventhal, who shot all the footage. Near death, death and the pastoral: a picnic....

Avant-garde citizens: Mpia’s story, 2007, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson © the artists

AVANT-GARDE CITIZENS

Libia Castro - Ólafur Ólafsson
’Avant-garde Citizens’ steps into the lives and identities of refugees in the world today, using the Netherlands as a departure point. The project is a series of video-portraits of people who have become enmeshed in the viciously complicated and torturously slow Dutch immigration and asylum system...

MADNESS AND OTHER TALES

Grace Schwindt
The fragility of the human body is addressed in Madness and Other Tales, a live performance in which soprano Lisa Cassidy and Vertixe Sonora Ensemble perform a new score written by Grace Schwindt. This piece is based on the 'Aria of Madness' from Gaetano Donizetti’s 19th-century opera 'Lucia di Lammermoor'...

RADOUB

Claude Cattelain
Trying to collect the wrecks, carried away by the water....

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 76. MICROSCOPE

Steve Reinke
Whenever I look into a microscope, I feel like I’m looking inside of something. A barrier seems to have been broken....

HEXHAM HEADS

Chloë Delanghe - Mattijs Driesen
Tinted by the red safelight of the darkroom, the film (re)constructs a breathless pastoral horror about a place crystallized in time and terrorized by two 6cm tall stone heads whose current location remains unknown...

OTOLITH I

The Otolith Group
In 1963, the Russian Valentina Teresjkova was the first woman to orbit around the Earth. After her space flight, she became an icon for global feminism, and in India she shook hands with the feminist Anasuya Gyan-Chand. Historical events like this were the starting point for the cinematic essay ’Otolith I’, made by the Otolith Group in 2003...

FRANÇOIS CLOUET – EDWARD MUNCH (KONINKLIJKE BIBLIOTHEEK)

Jef Cornelis
Original broadcast date: 11/05/1971...