OVERZICHT TITELS

SITUATION (1)

Hans Op de Beeck
A moving camera takes us along an endless row of cash registers in a desolate supermarket. The cashiers are waiting behind their empty desks and it’s quiet as a mouse… The contrast between the inert location on the one side, chaotic and lively in normal circumstances, and the moving camera on the other, makes this absurd sequence into a kind of dream image...

ET[-

Peter Downsbrough
ET[- opens with a silent black-and-white close-up of a vertical rod shuttling back and forth across a mechanical loom. The short sequence could be mistaken for footage from an early 20th-century propaganda film. Cut sharply to the next scene, also in black and white and taken from a fixed position but unmistakably contemporary...

MIRROR BALL

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

DE ZEEMANNEN EN HET SCHIP

Harald Thys
In ’The Sailors and the Ship’ two former sailors muse on their past from their apartment with a view on the sea wall. A male storyteller’s voice recounts their tale. Once upon a time they were brave seamen on a beautiful ship, led by a fantastic captain. But the death of their beloved captain caused the two man so much pain and sorrow, that they never spoke again...

OUTPLACEMENT 01 (PORTRET)

Cel Crabeels
Cel Crabeels explicitly tackles the issues of the area surrounding the St. Jan’s square. He visits the itinerary between the Fabiola Hall and the Sint Jan’s square almost on a daily basis, making contact with the people he meets on his way. He invites them to make a video portrait in the underground parking garage where he has built a studio for the occasion...

SMOKE

Roy Villevoye
My new film Smoke on which I worked over the past half year or so, tells the story of my very good (Asmat-)friend Ndo, who got blind as a young boy. And how eventually he got new eyesight. It also tells of friendship and efforts made because of this. Of hope and loss. And of confusion dealing with all this and the unexpected paths life takes...

BUCHAREST. THE CITY - ME

Alina Cristea
“Matei Visniec has once named one of his poetry books The City with One Inhabitant. This is how I always felt about Bucharest - as my city, even more so, the city - me” (Mircea Cartarescu).By using narrations to re-signify situations and events filtered through her individual and particular viewpoints, Alina Cristea aims to tell a story about Bucharest as she sees it...

KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST WEL KRITIEK? 4. WANNEER DE KUNSTENAAR IN ALLE ERNST SPEELT [NOS VERSION]

Jef Cornelis
Part of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art Criticism?”, the given answer this time being ’When the artist is toying around in all seriousness’...

Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist

SILENT LETTER 20012009

Mira Sanders
The third 'Silent Letter' was written on January 19th, 2009. The inter- and subtitles refer to the act of drawing. A short way into the video, we see images of radio-commanded model airplanes. A fourth theme is made explicit here: the (clear) line. Throughout the letter, the line is connected with the theme of the border, to be defended by ''guards''....

SLOW OBJECT 04

Edith Dekyndt
'Slow Object 04' is close-up video and it shows a delicate manipulation of an ordinary round rubber band bobbing up and down in slow motion. As if the movement of the disc and the hand takes place in an aquarium, the object appears to be suspended as escaping Earth’s gravity: it slightly deforms and it rarely returns to the initial point...