OVERZICHT TITELS

CONTAINER 06: DE OORSPRONG VAN HET WARENHUIS

Jef Cornelis
Once upon a time, the ‘grands magasins de nouveautés’ were focal points of modern life. Their development, as described in Emile Zola’s Au bonheur des dames ("A Woman’s Paradise"), introduced the transition from a production’s to a consumer’s society...

VOICES

Miguel Peres dos Santos
That one is able to speak does not mean that one has a voice. In Voices, Miguel Peres do Santos constructs a comparison between the collective consciousness and a censored archive...

SMALL ACTS OF VIOLENCE

Aay Liparoto
We are all in need of love and care...

Gnawa, Olivier Dekegel, 2010 © the artist & producer

GNAWA

Olivier Dekegel
A medium-length film produced and distributed by the director, a true cinephile, lover and connoisseur of classic and experimental cinema. Filmed on Super 8, Gnawa is an immersive flood, a sensorial trip to the magico-religious rites of the Gnawa in Morocco, made with such virtuosity that it elevates the viewer, cinematographically, into a trance akin to that of the dancers and musicians depicted...

DOUBLE MIRROR FACE

Messieurs Delmotte
This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 2...

FAVORITKA

Alina Zhdanova
Every time memories are thought back on, they get rewritten into new memories over and over. The experiences that get recalled for hundreds and thousands of times, turn into beliefs. Recalling and saving the memories, which get renewed and rewritten, one single line of memories could be followed. The theme of work is “Recalling”...

Eth(n)ique Vietnam, Laurent Van Lancker, 2000 © the artist & producer

ETH(N)ICS VIETNAM

Laurent Van Lancker
In 1997 a young Anthropology and Cinema MA Graduate endeavours on a voyage to North Vietnam with two friends to shoot his first ethnographic documentary film. The enterprise is auto-financed and DV based, Digital Video having only recently been commercially introduced to the market. The initial excitement and spirit of adventure, though, are soon to be cut short by a major obstacle...

STARSHIP

Bernard Gigounon
‘Starship’ shows an enormous symmetrical axis, stranded on a beach of the North Sea. Futuristic thinking about possible worlds is proper to humankind. For the last fifty years new technologies and impressive means of transport have aroused our imagination on the silver screen, in science fiction films and series like ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Star Trek’...

LILI

An van. Dienderen
In a TV studio a girl named Lili (played by Belgian actress Maaike Neuville) is asked to serve as a so-called China Girl. China Girls, used in cinema history since the 1920’s, are women with Caucasian skin who are filmed alongside a colour-chart in order to adjust the colours of the film. They have no dialogues to memorize or characters to impersonate...

ÉCHANGEUR

Rob Jacobs - Anne Reijniers
In the streets of the metropolis of Kinshasa, young Congolese imagine their version of the colonial past. Around an empty pedestal that once carried a Belgian monument, emerges an imaginary city where archival footage, artistic performances and present-day Kinshasa interact...