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THE MOURNING OF THE SEA
Miguel Peres dos SantosThe Mourning of the Sea was shot at Cidade Velha in Cape Verde in 2016. Located off Africa's northwest coast, this town was the first European colonial settlement to asure slave trade to the America’s. An estimate of 4 to 6 million enslaved persons were sold and sent to the Americas from there, mainly to Brazil. The film, like the city, echoes the deep sadness of the past in the present...
IMPOSITIONS
Philippe Van SnickA woman is reading at a garden table. Every minute she changes the side she is sitting at, until she’s back where she started. The camera starts turning round to film her and her book. Afterwards she starts looking at photographs of herself, sitting at another table but with the same book in her hands....
HOMMAGE À … IV
Lili DujourieThe five videos of Hommage à … deal with the same theme as repetition-in-difference, as a continual tracing and retracing, of the figure fold and unfold in the visual field. Everything is centred on the concept of self-observation and an exploration of the body. Dujourie develops a recurrent strategy of her work: drawing attention to the space beyond the visual field...
Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist
SILENT LETTER 22012009
Mira SandersThe fourth 'Silent Letter' was written on January 22nd, 2009. While we see people playing volleyball on a beach, the narrator reflects on water, and how it changes from rain, moving through man's world and back to cloud again. In the end she refers to the seaside, where clouds are best viewed...
EXPRMNTL
Brecht Debackere - Steven DhoedtKnokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second 'World Festival of Film and the Arts' in 1949, organized in part by the royal cinematheque of Belgium...
WARM LIQUID EVENT
Hänzel & GretzelA sensual video clip made for Jarboe (singer of Swans) and her Beautiful People. A shamanic goddess praising the most sexy liquid in an ocean of bubbles: “Relax and listen, all you do is close your eyes, I’m inside you with pleasure”. A warm liquid event indeed!...
BIBA-NON-BIBA
Hänzel & GretzelThis whirling dance tape is a visual odyssey from Beirut to Berlin, a woman’s story set in the oppressive civil fragmentation of two divided cities where images of destruction and reconstruction are intermingled. A cutting edge poetic short, that maps out the roots of inner and outer landscapes...
untitled part 6: upon the resonance of histories, Jayce Salloum, 2009-2010 © the artist & producer
UNTITLED PART 6: UPON THE RESONANCE OF HISTORIES
Jayce SalloumParihaka (on the north island of Aotearoa/New Zealand) is seen by many nationally and internationally as a symbol of non-violent resistance, and a Maori struggle for contemporary and historical justice ...
BEFORE THE RAIN (A VILLAGE)
Hans Op de BeeckOn the occasion of the festival Europalia.India and the exhibition Indomania (Bozar, Brussels, September 2013–January 2014) Hans Op de Beeck travelled to the historically important religious centre of Hampi (Karnataka) to make a new video...
IJSBREKER 21: MODE
Jef Cornelis - Jackie Claeys - Freddy Coppens - Mark De GeestAn episode of ‘Ijsbreker’ on contemporary fashion. Several designers and stylists are presented, from different generations and traditions. Recorded right before the first heyday of the Antwerp fashion academy, the urge for innovation is still pretty subdued in this programme...
