OVERZICHT TITELS

THRENODY FOR THE VICTIMS OF HIROSHIMA

Steve Reinke - James Richards
This is really James Richards project: it was his idea and he shot the stuff. but dissatisfied with it, asked it I might try my hand with the material. It completes the trilogy at the middle of "Tiny Ventriloquist" — Beuys, Stockhausen, Penderecki — modernism facing history — so I was happy I could incorporate it into the work. (Steve Reinke)...

I LOVE YOU, MY WORLD

Jan Vromman
For this film, Jan Vromman found his inspiration in the construction works at the Atomium, Belgium’s national monument. In 2005, the Belgian government renovated the coating of the balls. Jan Vromman recognised the globe of the earth in one of the stripped balls...

JOHAN

Sven Augustijnen
’Johan’ is a purely documentary film that shows the therapy undergone by a patient suffering from aphasia. Aphasia is an illness that affects the language centres of the brain and that can be generated by, amongst other things, a brain-tumour or -haemorrhage...

ASH TREE

Sarah Vanagt
"A girl touches tombstones in a graveyard. Her hand glides over the letters and carved inscriptions.  Can she read death?   Can she see death? In Ash Tree, the beginning of knowledge - the alphabet - mingles with the end of all knowledge: death...

CURIOUS ABOUT EXISTENCE

Emily Vey Duke - Cooper Battersby
A humorous yet insightful journey through what the filmmakers refer to as ”the spiritual and material world and its inhabitants” which incorporates multiple mediums as it digresses through various tangential narratives dealing with, you guessed it, existence....

NUIT DEBOUT (INSTALLATION)

Nelson Makengo
darkness > in the depths of the working class neighbourhoods, in the absurdity of the rubble of endless nights,night > in this nocturnal shipwreck of the physical and symbolic power cut,resistance > abandoned to itself like a motherless chick, like a pot without a lid, like a house without a window, without a door, like a door without a lock, like a lock without a key.....

AND TO

Peter Downsbrough
We don't know where we are. We're in a car, looking at other cars, roads, structures, tunnels – wasteland. Position? The Global Positioning System informs us, with its horde of satellites, orbiting Earth. Guiding us with its synthesised voice, transporting us, 'translating' us. Telling us what to do...

EXTENDED HORIZON

Lukas Marxt
Like a cultivated alien, Lukas Marxt wanders through a desert landscape guiding his reconnaissance by remote control. Everything is entirely normal, but both path and logic come to a sudden end at an abyss. Marxt perseveres while the sound of his alleged steps wafts away with the camera image into a void: three cheers for cinematic reality....

_IMOVIE[2]_: IN-BETWEEN / SHIFTING

Els Opsomer
‘_Imovie_[2] in-between/shifting’ is the second video Opsomer made with the amateur software package ‘iLife’, supplied with Apple computers. The video consists of photographies of cities in Brazil and Senegal, which Opsomer visited...

WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR

Shelly Silver
"A woman sets out to photograph moments of intimacy. On an Internet dating site she writes: ’I’m looking for people who would like to be photographed in public revealing something of themselves...’ What I’m Looking For, a 15-minute high definition video, documents this adventure; the connections formed at this intersection between virtual and actual public space...