OVERZICHT TITELS

L'ART DU COUPLE

Jan Bucquoy
The artist and film maker plays the part of himself in this feature film that highlights Bucquoy’s relationships of the past two or three years, with the assistance of some ten (ex-)lovers with whom he had a relation in this period. What kind of relations do people enter into? Bucquoy: “Living together or separately—I've tried it but it is too expensive, as my mother used to say...

IMPOSITIONS

Philippe Van Snick
A woman is reading at a garden table. Every minute she changes the side she is sitting at, until she’s back where she started. The camera starts turning round to film her and her book. Afterwards she starts looking at photographs of herself, sitting at another table but with the same book in her hands....

DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

Johan Grimonprez
The guideline in Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y is the unofficial chronicle of world-wide aeroplane hijacking. Its blending of archival footage and personal home movie imagery sets out to investigate the media politics of our contemporary catastrophe culture...

STILL FROM AFAR

Eva van Tongeren
An audiovisual dialogue between the filmmaker and a convicted sex offender. In Still from afar, Eva van Tongeren translates a months-long correspondence between the convicted and incarcerated pedophile Thomas and herself into an audiovisual monologue. The correspondence forces them to adjust their thoughts to the rhythm of each other's letters...

THE CHAIR

Grace Schwindt
The artist interviews her grandmother about her experience of he occupation of Berlin in 1945....

CASA

Michel François
‘CASA’ is an extensive collage of film fragments, capturing numerous subjects and sensations. The artist makes an appeal to the five senses and the four elements. Movement is also very central in ‘CASA’. It starts with waves overflowing a wall. The element water. A close-up of elbows rubbing a rough surface. Two hands are grabbing a face covered in clay. Touch...

STAND HERE AT THE EDGE

Andrea Geyer
When viewing a movie, what we know can foreclose the possibility of vision. ’Stand here at the Edge’, tries to construct an epistemological break, by simply suggesting to close ones eyes and challenge the entitlement and “knowledge” that so often comes with the familiarity of our gaze...

DÉJÀ VU (HALLU)

Michel François
Michel François is fascinated by the small signs of life, the trivial moments and touches that are bestowed with every appearance of magic at the right time. Beauty is to be found in everyday life, where emotion and astonishment occur. François tries to induce these experiences and to grasp the mobility and the elusiveness of perception...

FACE À FACE

Eric Pauwels
‘Face à face’ is considered by many to be nothing more than a “simple recording” of a performance by Michèle Anne De Mey. The spirit of the performance is certainly sublimely reproduced, but there is more. ‘Face à face’ is to some extent the synthesis of Pauwels’s earlier experiments...

TWEEDE INTERNATIONAAL SALON DER AVANT-GARDE GALERIJEN LAUSANNE

Jef Cornelis
On his way back from Venice, Jef Cornelis stopped in Lausanne to film the secon International Salon of Pilot Galleries organized at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts on the initiative of its director and curator René Berger. The idea for it had occurred to him three years earlier: "I had this totally naive idea: how to get to know contemporary art on an ongoing basis.....