OVERZICHT TITELS

ENTRE L'OMBRE ET LA LUMIÈRE

Danièle Nyst - Jacques Louis Nyst
An installation of Jacques-Louis Nyst, in which a blonde woman, dressed in leather SM-outfit, is filmed in a dark room. She performs a slow choreography in which she scinds with a sword and strikes a metal chain. At the end of the sequence, the image changes to a red swing and a voice-over starts singing a simple song "entre l'ombre et la lumière, je me balance, je suis balanceuse."...

THIS DAY WON'T LAST

Mouaad el Salem
A day that could also be a life. A young man who could also be an older woman. A nightmare that could also be a dream. In Tunisia, while it could also be somewhere else: on the border between the necessity and the fear to make a film, the necessity and the fear for the revolution, is This day won’t last a cooperation with a distance...

Storyteller, Nicolas Provost, 2010

STORYTELLER

Nicolas Provost
’Storyteller’ takes found stock footage of the cosmopolitan skyline, recomposing and mirroring the images to create a slick artificiality reminiscent of science fiction. At first glance, the viewer might think of space ships floating slowly through the universe, but quickly ’Storyteller’ reveals its source: images of downtown Las Vegas shot from a helicopter...

OUT - SIDE

Peter Downsbrough

MEET THE PEOPLE

Shelly Silver
"Blurring the line between documentary and fiction, truth and artifice, Meet the People presents fourteen ’characters’ who face the camera in talking head close-ups and speak about their lives and dreams...

WARBURGBALLETTEN

Koen Theys
'Warburgballetten' was inspired by the life and work of Aby Warburg (1866-1929). It is an homage to this founder of iconography. The image is divided in two parts: a smaller one on the left, with figures from (mainly) renaissance paintings; and a bigger part on the right, with figures from propaganda posters that were made during World War I...

BANDEKO BASI

Bie Michels - Paul Shemisi Betutua
The documentary Bandeko Basi by filmmakers Paul Shemisi and Bie Michels examines the position of women in Kinshasa, focusing on how they navigate both traditional and contemporary roles, particularly in relation to female sexual identity. Central to the film is Hana Kele (known as HanaKel on social media), an activist who champions female sexual identity...

WAKE ME UP AT 4:20

Emmanuel Van der Auwera
Emmanuel Van der Auwera’s newest work is a video that uses novel imaging technologies to explore the use of avatars, identity politics and recent internet trends dealing with YouTube celebrities and suicide memes...

SMELL THE FLOWERS WHILE YOU CAN

Johan Grimonprez
Johan Grimonprez transposes an extract from Meg Stuart’s compelling choreography ‘No Longer Ready-Made’ to the anonymous waiting room of a railway station. This colourless space along with nameless travellers provides the excellent setting for Stuart’s hectic and intense convulsions...

WHITE HOMELAND COMMANDO

Elizabeth LeCompte
‘White Homeland Commando’ was written for the Wooster Group by associate Michael Kirby. It takes the familiar terrain of network action drama but tilts its playing field...