All films
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Magic, a portrait of Joris
by Chloë Delanghe • 2018 • Belgium
In this film, images sourced from different periods in time are glued together. Worn-out VHS footage filmed by the artist’s father is placed beside 8mm images she filmed herself. Both have the same subject: one boy, both a son and a brother. Connecting images o...
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Carnations
by Martijn Van de Wiele • 2021 • Belgium
An artificial summer rules the greenhouse. Workers tend to carnations. In a multitude of splendid colours, they grow towards the sun until they’re ready to fulfill their cut-flower destiny. Carnations is an audiovisual meditation on movements within a car...
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Swollen Stigma
by Sarah Pucill • 1998 • United Kingdom
Swollen Stigma is a visual, surrealistic narrative about a woman travelling both literally and psychically through several rooms. Memories, or fantasies, of another woman, fill her imagination. The film proposes lesbian imagery, and its shifting points of ...
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Because We Are Visual
by Olivia Rochette & Gerard-Jan Claes • 2010 • Belgium
In Because We Are Visual, Olivia Rochette and Gerard-Jan Claes explore the world of public video journals. The Internet and its online communities intended to bring people closer together and to connect them. Yet it seems that this virtual w...
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Self-Portrait
by Jonas Mekas • 1980 • USA
In what one could call Jonas Mekas’ first video blog, the Lithuanian avant-garde filmmaker reflects on his life and the art of cinema and representation.
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Old Child
by Elettra Bisogno & Hazem Alqaddi • 2019 • Belgium, Palestine
Old Child depicts the fragmented story of Hazem, who had to flee Gaza. Throughout this stream-of-consciousness montage of dreams and reminiscences, he searches for order but also for the beauty he left behind.
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L'escale (The Stopover)
by Collectif Faire-part • 2022 • DR Congo, Belgium
Filmmakers Paul Shemisi and Nizar Saleh embark on a journey from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Germany to screen their latest film. However, during a layover in Angola, their trip takes a harrowing turn when airport authorities question t...
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Downside Up
by Tony Hill • 1984 • United Kingdom
With a single camera movement, this film explores humankind’s relationship to the ground. The viewpoint continuously changes. Places, objects, people, and events come in and out of focus. These observations gradually speed up and reveal a double-sided ground,...
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La Chute (On Its Way Down)
by Sebastian Schaevers • 2022 • Belgium
Zinal, a small town in the Swiss Alps, looks straight up toward the melting glaciers of the Couronne Impériale. The townspeople struggle with nihilistic indifference. What can they do? They can’t stop the world from falling apart. And when the threat is so...
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The White Elephant
by Shuruq Harb • 2018 • Palestine
Using images shared on the Internet by Israelis during the Gulf War, the First Intifada, and trance music gatherings, Shuruq Harb paints the portrait of a Palestinian teenager in the 1990s. In the midst of Israeli pop culture and the political climate of the Osl...
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Ours is a Country of Words
by Mathijs Poppe • 2017 • Belgium, Lebanon
The story is filmed in Shatila, a refugee camp built in Lebanon when thousands of Palestinians fled their country in 1948. At an undetermined moment in the future, the refugees’ dream of returning to Palestine becomes a reality. Yet, while families prep...