OVERZICHT TITELS

MY RECTUM IS NOT A GRAVE (NOTES TO A FILM INDUSTRY IN CRISIS)

Steve Reinke
Using footage shot in 1938 and 1939 by Ivan Besse, who owned a movie theatre in Britton, South Dakota and used local portraits in a kind of local news-reel, Reinke builds a strange reverie, sometimes speaking as Besse, sometimes as St. Paul, with reference to Frank O’Hara, Odetta and Dusty Springfield....

AU-DELÀ DES ICEBERGS

Xavier Christiaens
Following The Taste of Koumiz (Le Goût du Koumiz) (2003) and The White Camel (La Chamelle Blanche) (2006), Xavier Christiaens now presents Beyond Icebergland (Au-delà des Icebergs), a new free ride into imaginary territories...

THÉRÉSA PLANE

Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle Nyst
'Thérésa Plane’ is an itinerary in the form of an infinity symbol shaped loop. At its point of intersection a frog who thinks that everything is pretty and Thérésa whose principle activity is to glide, meet. A love story between the frog and Thérésa ensues. All would have gone quite well, were it not for the intervention of destiny...

THE KINGDOM

Pieter Geenen
The Kingdom is a series of nine videos portraying today's North American urban landscape by looking at the large Belgian community living in the Canadian tobacco belt. During 20th century this region was subject to heavy European immigration, attracting many Flemish immigrants in particular who settled as tobacco farmers...

BALLOON MAN

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte arrives at the scene, which is located in a park, wearing a costume covered with balloons. Fiercely he starts to pierce them with two needles. With each balloon that is punctured, his appearance becomes more visible. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...

LE CERCLE DES NOYÉS

Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd
Le cercle des noyés (Drowned by Oblivion) is the most documentary essay by Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd (1969). The film looks back on 1987 and the imprisonment of a number of Mauritanian political activists in an abandoned colonial fort at Oualata. Political authorities described them as subversives, so they were picked up, taken away and handled as such...

LE VOYAGE DE CHRISTOPHE COLOMB

Jacques Louis Nyst
This short video is one of Jacques-Louis Nyst’s earlier experiences with the medium...

FROM SATIN ISLAND

Johan Grimonprez
A haunting collage of disaster and beauty, set to a shimmering track by Lights Out Asia, Johan Grimonprez in collaboration with acclaimed avant-garde novelist Tom McCarthy, based on an abstract from his latest book SATIN ISLAND....

YOU DO NOT LEAVE TRACES OF YOUR PRESENCE, JUST OF YOUR ACTS

Gernot Wieland
The film You do not leave traces of your presence, just of your acts can be read as an experimental coming-of-age film that illuminates the traces of three characters from the filmmaker's youth: Maria, Daniel and Jackpot. In the stories, which Wieland tells in his own voice from a first-person perspective, autobiographical and fictional elements merge into a dense poetic space...

TRACE

Peter Downsbrough
TRACE revisits the site of an earlier Downsbrough video, A] PART (2009). The location for both works, Brussels’s iconic Citroen garage, opened to great fanfare in 1934 as the largest automobile service center in Europe...