OVERZICHT TITELS

SECOND-HAND EXPERIENCE 02

Edith Dekyndt
The 'Second hand experiences' are an uncompleted series of film installations, reinterpreting movements from childhood. In 'Second-hand experiences 02', Dekyndt handles an embroidery floss and builds a square loop which she keeps on shaping and reshaping with her hands...

EXOTICORE

Nicolas Provost
An immigrant from Burkina Faso attempts to integrate into Norwegian society. The film explores the question of what it is like to be a foreigner searching for a niche in today’s world, and addresses the notions of solitude and contemporary insanity. Exoticore is an odyssey through our multicultural society complete with its alienation and prejudices. A dark journey into exoticism....

GUIDE DE POLITESSE À L'ATTENTION DE NOS FORCES DE L'ORDRE

Charley Case
In the streets of Tokyo, a young guy is handing out flyers to the passers by. We are not informed for what company or goal he is distributing these. However how polite, however how friendly – and hard! – he is trying, no one of the people passing by in this very busy avenue are accepting his pamphlets. Or is he succeeding in the end?...

EDGARD TYTGAT

Jef Cornelis
This short film, originally made for the television programme ‘Zoeklicht’, focuses on the late work of the famous Belgian painter Edgard Tytgat (1879-1957). The film was made on the occasion of the exhibition in the art centre Pro Arte Christiana in Vaalbeek, a village near Leuven. Tytgat finished his ‘Stations of the Cross’ the year he died...

IJSBREKER 11: WONEN+WONEN=2

Jef Cornelis - Jackie Claeys - Mark De Geest - Karel Schoetens
A house is an environment. A home is an extension of who you are. How can we live in a house, be at home in a home? These issues are tackled in a live transmission by Bob van Reeth, architect and teacher, and Marcel Raymaekers, tradesman in historical style objects. A work by both is presented, architectural pieces as places with a memory, an environment with a mind, a space in time...

VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): TV RÉALISME

Jacques Lennep
A television screen shows a pan of a park. Shortly it becomes clear that what we see actually is two performers carrying an 'empty' television set in the park and that the image is nature itself. An early experiment with the medium of television in the spirit of Nam June Paik or Wolf Vostell....

PARADE

Hans Op de Beeck
Parade is an art video staged by Hans Op de Beeck on the scene of a theatre. The red velvet curtain opens, a slow waltz, composed especially for this film, starts playing, while a seemingly endless cavalcade of people comes walking by, in slow motion, like a stream of passers-by in a street...

AGAIN ON THE SEAS

Joëlle de La Casinière
While they were in Peru in 1973-74 to shoot movies, artists and poets Joëlle de La Casinière and Michel Bonnemaison decided to invite photographer and film director Carlos Ferrand on a trip across the Andes and through the coastal desert along the Pacific Ocean with a Leica camera and a precise mission: constantly photographing out the window of the riding Land-Rover...

MENSEN EN EIEREN

Filip Francis
This video is a document on a performance carried out by Filip Francis and a bunch of people dressed in white. They start, at an accelerating speed, throwing eggs on a wall. The viewer doesn’t see the eggs getting smashed, but only hears the crushing sound....

NATIONAL LIBERATION FOOTBALL

Amina Menia
On November 18, 2009, the Algerian football team ensured their participation in the 2010 FIFA World Cup by winning one goal to nil against Egypt. Public jubilation could not have been greater, the joyeus wave surpassed football and the stakes surpassed the match, as the countries were experiencing tension in the political realm...