OVERZICHT TITELS

DE NEDERLANDSE DAGEN

Jef Cornelis
“De Nederlandse Dagen” (“The Dutch Days”) was an exhibition with manifestations on Dutch-speaking cultures, held in the summer of 1968 the hall of the Palace for Fine Arts in Brussels (the former BOZAR)...

DOUBLE URBAN DANCE

Messieurs Delmotte
This work is part of the series UNDO / REDO Vol. 2...

AU BALCON DE TITI

Yasmina Benari
After 11 years in jail and a life spent hoping to see a free and fairly ruled Egypt, Titi alias Albert Arrié witnesses 2011 riots from his own balcony. He is 81. The film follows Titi over the course of two years, as hope turns to dust and present meets the past. At Titi's Balcony is a voyage, oscillating between inner and outer worlds...

THE GLASS WALL

Dora García
Two girls are in permanent contact with each other through an electronic answering machine. Without any visual contact or prior knowledge they begin to sound out each other through questions and fantasy images. Slowly, without giving it further thought, their curiosity evolves into a meticulous role play...

A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF CLARITY

Emmanuel Van der Auwera
Teenagers are watching a video on internet while videotaping their own reactions. Fragments after fragments, this loose community express their comments and witness a deep trouble in an ever more invading off-camera space. We are caught between two images: the missing one being watched and the image of the spectator. This ultra thin angle opens a breach on the multiple dimensions of dismay...

NUDE DESCENDING A STAIRCASE

Eitan Efrat - Sirah Foighel Brutmann
The first part of Nude Descending a Staircase is a composition of clips found online that were made by visitors—pilgrims—to the remote memorial site of Walter Benjamin in Portbou, Spain. Each of these individual registrations is anchored in the specificity of the location...

MEET THE PEOPLE

Shelly Silver
"Blurring the line between documentary and fiction, truth and artifice, Meet the People presents fourteen ’characters’ who face the camera in talking head close-ups and speak about their lives and dreams...

PI²

Charley Case
A couple performs Rachmaninov’s Piano Sonata for 4 Hands. Their hands caress each other without touching; the bodies converge in music....

IJSBREKER 14: LITERAIRE TIJDSCHRIFTEN

Jef Cornelis - Mark De Geest - Karel Schoetens - Jackie Claeys
During the beginning of the eighties there were about eighty different literary magazines in Flanders, even though in the overall picture renowned editors and authors were few and far between. This episode of ‘Ijsbreker’ came about following the creation of two new magazines from the ashes of the Nieuw Vlaams Tijdschrift: the Nieuw Wereldtijdschrift (NWT) and Diogenes...

VILLA EMPAIN

Katharina Kastner
Katharina Kastner's experimental short film about a museum of contemporary art in Brussels, Villa Empain, builds upon concepts of psychogeography and draws a mental map of a space as it goes through time...