OVERZICHT TITELS

FLY

Shelly Silver
In FLY, the camera wonders around a room until it stops on a tapestry dominated by two peacocks in front of each other. Then, a voice over tells about a fugitive encounter....

OH DEAR …

Nicolas Provost
A short yet moving story about innocence set against the background of a go-kart track. ’Oh dear...’ is a one-minute film commissioned by the International Filmfestival Rotterdam....

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 26. WISH

Steve Reinke
It has always been my wish to have been a dermatologist in Philadelphia during the Great Depression....

RED TAPE

Cel Crabeels
The tape shows an extract of the video installation ’Red Tape’ this installation explores the temporal dimension in moving images by looping two basic movements of the camera, the transformation of a spatial barrier to the temporal one. The installation strove to test the meaning of the conversation from first to the second one....

FIR TREE

Messieurs Delmotte
In a public park the protagonist approaches a pine with a small ladder. He unfolds it, takes a run up, and jumps into a tree, desperately trying to clench on to it. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...

TRAVELOGUE 1, 2, 3

Stefaan Decostere
A series of peculiar accounts of journeys in Brussels, presented as a voyage through archival and real imagery, and through the memories and reflections this imagery invokes. 'Artificial promenades' where travellings between views (seeing) is constantly being metamorphosed and developed into travelling between points of view (ways of seeing)...

DOUBLE TAKE

Johan Grimonprez
Director Johan Grimonprez casts Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war period. The master says all the wrong things at all the wrong times while politicians on both sides desperately flounder to say the right things, live on television...

HOSTAGE: THE BACHAR TAPES (ENGLISH VERSION)

The Atlas Group - Walid Raad
"Hostage: The Bachar Tapes (English version) is a multi-part videotape about ’The Western Hostage Crisis’. The crisis refers to the abduction and detention in Lebanon in the 1980’s and early 1990’s of western men like Terry Anderson and Terry Waite by ’Islamic militants’...

RAW MATERIALS

Justin Bennett
Based on personal memories reaching way back into time, Raw Materials creates a resonant patchwork with fragments of field recordings originating from divergent cities like Fribourg (Switzerland), Barcelona or Beirut. With a pitch-black image as canvas – a technique that actively shifts the attention towards the sound – snow-white text lines appear one by one in typewriter style...

PAU BRASIL : JE VINDT NIET, WAT JE ZOEKT

Jef Cornelis
’You don’t find what you’re looking for’ is a phrase that can be found on a work of art by Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles. In their work, Meireles and several other contemporary Brazilian artists, continually give expression to the formal and social tension in which Brazilian culture finds itself...