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AU BALCON DE TITI
Yasmina BenariAfter 11 years in jail and a life spent hoping to see a free and fairly ruled Egypt, Titi alias Albert Arrié witnesses 2011 riots from his own balcony. He is 81. The film follows Titi over the course of two years, as hope turns to dust and present meets the past. At Titi's Balcony is a voyage, oscillating between inner and outer worlds...
PEINTURE À L'HUILE N°3
Thomas BernardetThe video camera records the motor of a running car filmed in close-up for 45mn....
CZECHMATE
Hänzel & GretzelAn Akasic Peeper project dedicated to the New York poet-mythographer, phantasmagorical filmmaker and pioneer editor Ira Cohen (also known as the Majoon Traveller). A short poem written and read in Prague during the ‘Sub Rosa Curfew tour under the full moon’, also featuring the Golem’s shadow and Jan Saudek’s baroque bordello...
RON BURRAGE HITCHCOCK DOUBLE
Johan Grimonprez‘Ron Burrage Hitchcock Double’ is an extract of a larger project of Johan Grimonprez about Hitchcock doubles. It shows the 'making of': the artist is visible throughout the tape, giving instructions, dialoguing with his 'model', Ron Burrage...
MAX BILL
Jef CornelisMax Bill, an artist who worked with plastics and member of the Swiss ’Zurich Concrete’ group, spent many years investigating mathematical abstractions – and sculpting, in his way, another life. "Is it necessary to say that a mathematical approach to art has nothing to do with any ingenious system of calculation based on ready-made formulas?" he wrote in 1949...
A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF CLARITY
Emmanuel Van der AuweraTeenagers are watching a video on internet while videotaping their own reactions. Fragments after fragments, this loose community express their comments and witness a deep trouble in an ever more invading off-camera space. We are caught between two images: the missing one being watched and the image of the spectator. This ultra thin angle opens a breach on the multiple dimensions of dismay...
GIZEH-BLANKENBERGE
Ria PacquéeRia Pacquée returns to Egypt, showing some of the sights and sounds which follow the sea of tourists which descends on Egypt every year. Against a back-drop of familiar gods, stylised figures and hieroglyphs, a steady stream of behatted, sunglass-wearing figures take photographs and record video footage...
THE BISHOP & THE DOCTOR
Jan Dietvorst - Roy VillevoyeThe Bishop & The Doctor is a splitscreen projection of two synchronously presented events both taking place in the Asmat in the Indonesian province of Papua, former Dutch New Guinea, concerning the activities of two typical exponents of the White Man’s Burden. In the right part a German Doctor operates on a Papua in what almost looks like a home, in order to treat a lump in his face...
BOY / ANALYSIS: AN ABRIDGEMENT OF MELANIE KLEIN'S "NARRATIVE OF A CHILD ANALYSIS"
Steve ReinkeDisrupted identities and unconscious dynamics are ever-recurring motives in Steve Reinke’s work. With great rhetorical suppleness he ties together observations and speculations on ego, sexuality, nostalgia and artistic practice...
1937
Nora Martirosyan"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...
