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TOPIC II
Pascal BaesThe French film theorist André Bazin used to consider film as a spell of time. He spoke triumphantly of a victory on the irreversibility and the transitoriness of life. Baes’ ‘Topic I & II’ (the painterly quality of its dusky images is for a good reason reminiscent of Francis Bacon’s strokes) seem to question these transcendent views on cinematography...
APPLE
Shelly SilverAPPLE is an fast-edited assemblage of views and details of a big sculpture in the public space shaped as a green apple alternated to a postcard of Paris' Eiffel Tower....
INLAND VOYAGES IN AN INLAND VOYAGES
Mira SandersNavigating. We rarely think about it, and yet for most of us it is an everyday activity. Internet, Google Maps, GPS, etcetera: who can do without them? Mira Sanders was deeply touched by Robert Louis Stevenson’s travel story An Inland Voyage (1878). In it Stevenson relates how with a friend he paddled in a canoe from the Belgian town of Antwerp to Pontoise in France...
LA TROISIÈME VOIE
Lucile DesamoryWhile reading, a nun is waiting for the train on the platform of the station. A pickpocket thief grabs her suitcase. The nun starts the pursuit....
IN [ TO
Peter DownsbroughThe silent, ultra-short black-and-white video IN [ TO is shorter than a video clip: it clocks in at 2 minutes, 47 seconds. It was made with material shot exclusively for the film, plus footage filmed 'on the occasion', while Downsbrough was working on other projects...
LESSEN IN BESCHEIDENHEID
Stefaan DecostereDecostere looks at the inherent paradox in the conception of the future by scientists from the San Francisco area, who praise the merits of an on-line virtual community which will ultimately allow users to never having to leave the periphery of their neighbourhoods...
FRONTERISMO
Sofie BenootA journey along the border between the Unites States and Mexico. Rio Grande and Rio Bravo are two names for one river, a line in the sand, but also a line in the imagination, between the leftovers of the past and the now of the future...
SMALL LIES, BIG TRUTH
Shelly Silver"In turn funny, disturbing and glisteningly sensual, small lies, Big Truth is a video about love, relationships and the joys and banality of sex in the late 20th century. It also touches on such issues as morality, voyeurism, nature vs. culture and power, as eight people are heard reading, in the first person, from the testimony of Monica S...
VICTOR BOURGEOIS
Jef CornelisAn exhibition devoted to Victor Bourgeois was organized in 1971 by the archives of modern architecture at the National Higher Institute for Architecture and the Visual Arts in Brussels. This film is a presentation of that exhibition. Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Titles. 00’15" Presentation...
