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ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK SONG
Steve ReinkeNamed after Harry Smith’s seminal "Anthology of American Folk Music,” ’Anthology of American Folk Song’ re-inscribes the optimistically paranoid mythological landscape of contemporary America. Reinke illustrates this by saying "they had been unable to believe in the existence of terrorists. After all, none of them had discovered any repressed memories of terrorist abuse...
HEIMAT
Sam PeetersRight-wing populism is spreading through Western Europe like wildfire. It is most popular in quiet, white neighbourhoods where people are shielded from different cultures and lifestyles.In this unscripted documentary, Sam Peeters portrays an ironic caricature of life in the Flemish suburbs, which reflects the current European zeitgeist....
DE KUNST VAN HET BOOMHAKKEN / L'ART DE COUPER UN ARBRE
Jan VrommanVromman explores the role of women in society by means of the strangest of all byways. Subject of his documentary is the Flemish monk-missionary-priest-writer-photographer André De Smet. Centrally in De Smet’s thinking is -perhaps surprisingly for a Trappist monk- woman. In ancient time there existed a matriarchal in which a sacral sexuality was central...
ASS DANCE
Messieurs DelmotteA short, though provocative, video where the camera shoots a naked body lying on a red surface. The body moves on the beat of the music while the viewer can read a text on the back of the actor....
THE PERFECT WAVE
Nicolas ProvostThe Perfect Wave is a fascinating looped video of a surfer who keeps going and going on what indeed looks like a perfect wave. It’s a metaphor for what the artist calls the human desire for an endless orgasm....
VITA NOVA
Vincent MeessenIn his famous essay Mythologies (1957), Roland Barthes demystified the French colonial imperialism by means of a photograph that appeared on the cover of Paris-Match. This picture, that became an icon of modern criticism, shows a colonial cadet on guard.Vita Nova unveils the biographical ghost underneath the surface of this mythical picture...
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...
BIBA-NON-BIBA
Hänzel & GretzelThis whirling dance tape is a visual odyssey from Beirut to Berlin, a woman’s story set in the oppressive civil fragmentation of two divided cities where images of destruction and reconstruction are intermingled. A cutting edge poetic short, that maps out the roots of inner and outer landscapes...
OSAKA : 500 PICTURES OF THE OSAKA EXPO 70 BY BRUNO SUTER AND PETER KNAPP
Jef Cornelis500 pictures of the Osaka Expo 70 by Bruno Suter and Peter Knapp. A rapid montage of a selection of photographs from the album by Peter Knapp and Bruno Suter showing visitors and pavilions at the Osaka Wold’s Fair; a photograph of a Japanese boy and self portraits of the photographers. Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Titles...
