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THIS, OF COURSE, IS A WORK OF THE IMAGINATION
Wendy MorrisIn 1917 the Steamship Mendi sailed towards the English Channel and France. On board was a battalion of South African labour troops. In the early morning, in fog, the ship was rammed by another boat and sinks within twenty minutes. 600 men drowned. A legend evolved around the last moments of the men and the manner in which they faced their death...
DE ZWANEN VAN ROGER RAVEEL [TRIËNNALE BRUGGE]
Jef CornelisRaveel’s four swans were made for the Second Bruges Triennial 1971. We see Raveel and his assistants trying for the third time to put the swans into the waters of the Reien. Original broadcast date: 19/08/1971 Content: 00’00" Calendar. 00’30" View of a council workman pushing a cart containing Roger Raveel’s four swans made for the Second Bruges Arts Triennial...
TRAVELOGUE 4: COMING FROM THE WRONG SIDE
Stefaan DecostereAlthough this Travelogue is essentially a touristic program, Stefaan Decostere’s view introduces no peaceful landscape. The area, Banff, is presented as a recycled product of a generic past, where archetypal images are layered to create the illusion of the passage of time...
THE CORRIDOR
Sarah VanagtFor 5 days Sarah Vanagt and cinematographer Annemarie Lean-Vercoe followed a donkey during its weekly visits to old people in nursing homes in South-England. From home to home, from room to room. Each time the donkey was welcomed warmly, with greetings, songs, strokes, childhood stories, poems, and laughter...
FRIDAY FISHDAY
Jan BucquoyThe fifth part of The sex life of the Belgians tells the story of a man who refuses to or who cannot make love to women who smell strongly of fish. Returning to his native village Harelbeke and then to Ostend, film maker Bucquoy reflects on his aims as an artist and film director. “I’m fed up with making films for some hundred people. This time we’re going to be real machos...
URBAN LANDSCAPE
Messieurs DelmotteA city landscape: cars, trees, distant buildings. Messieurs Delmotte runs into a tree and disappears within it. Suddenly, he comes out of it and runs into the next tree. He disappears again. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...
La Girafe, 2004, Mira Sanders © the artist
LA GIRAFE
Mira Sanders’La Girafe’ was presented on the lawn of the Saint-Etienne-le-Vieux church, near the roundabout of the townhall of the city Caen (FR). During the local event ’Arts’sisses de la rue’, ’La Girafe’ was projected onto a billboard which was set up especially on the lawn of the prestigious town square, a popular tourist destination...
TEMPS D’HIVER
Marie AndréIn the heart of winter, a filmmaker is at work. Her work encompasses her life, the place of her body in within the season, her past, cinema, her friends and colleagues from Brussels (Alexandra Dementieva, Boris Lehman...). These observations by André are visualised in a minimalist way, but also with intimacy and richness in emotions and detail...
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...
A WEEKEND WITH MONSIEUR MAGRITTE, PART 1 SATURDAY
Jef Cornelis’a weekend with Monsieur Magritte’ was compiled from fragments of amateur films Magritte made himself on super-8 and 8mm...
