Fragile

Nuytten/Film

2016

A meeting between two friends: the cinematographer Caroline Champetier shoots a documentary about cinematographer Bruno Nuytten, making a film about his gesture and the relation between film art and craftwork.

Water pulu 1869 · 1896

1988

Playing with the recording of a water polo match, Galeta creates a kind of Copernicus twist in the structure and perception of this sports game. The ball still motivates the movements of players, but it is no more a dynamic element, but the fixed center of the image.

Inconsolable Memories

2005

Inconsolable Memories is a black and white film installation consisting of two 16 mm film loops projected alternately onto one screen in a dark gallery space. Both films feature archival documentary material, including footage of the streets of Havana and black and white photographs of artists and intellectuals in Cuba, combined with scenes filmed by Canadian artist Stan Douglas on a set in Vancouver. One of the films consists of five sequential parts, while the other has only three parts. The five-part film is almost twice as long as the three-part film, so that although both loops start playing together, they quickly go out of sync with one other.

El Estado soy Yo

1981

The images from the landing of the first expedition of the spaceship Columbia are juxtaposed to a reflection on the function of the visual medium, and artistic creation as a whole.

#Familiar #Touch #Lost #Figures

2020

Can we reinvent our lost queer histories? #Familiar #Touch #Lost #Figures is about queer ancestry and diaspora, a hybrid of cultural traditions and contemporary queer identity. It explores feelings of guilt and joy, and intimacy between femmes of colour.

Railroad

1967

In this short, a camera pointed towards a window films the landscape as a train moves along the track.

NOISEPRINT – a sonic exploration in urban living space

2017

A residential tower block in East London. The clicks and growls that are constantly being created by the building’s inner workings. Its vibrations, electric wiring, heathers, exhaust pipes, plumbing, etc, create a variety of sounds which permeate our living habitats.

Alpi

2011

Armin Linke’s Alpi is the result of seven years of research on contemporary perceptions of the landscape of the Alps, juxtaposing places and situations across all eight bordering nations. Alpi shows the Alps as a key location, owing to its delicacy and environmental importance, where one can observe and study the complexity of social, economic, and political relationships. Even if the imagery of Alps is still that of a world that is pre-modern, Alpi presents that unique landscape as a laboratory of modernity and its illusions.

Habiter le mouvement (un récit en 10 chapitres)

2019

Bouche sans fond ouverte sur les horizons

1971

In 1971 Thierry Zéno creates a fascinating portrait of artist Georges Moinet in the form of a 16 mm medium-length film. A schizophrenic who lives in a psychiatric hospital near Namur, Moinet paints. After being mute for 24 years he chooses this cinematic encounter to explain his artist approach, revealing what lies behind his personal cosmogony. But this long logorrhoea proves disturbing and fails to provide possible clues to understanding his work, gradually becoming a form of music that blends in with the sounds and distant, invisible hubbub of the hospital. With Alessandro Ussai behind the camera and Roger Cambier responsible for the sound, Zéno gets up close to Moinet to better capture him in all his demiurgical excessiveness, his existence on the fringes but also his humanity, deconstructing in a series of very tight shots the man and his canvasses.

Fast Nacht

2014

Two young women arrive in a town at a scenic lake, the day after carnival. On the shore lays the body of a man in a wig, with a shark fin attached to his back. A folkloristic ritual is set in motion, evoking a sacred place.

Ulterran

2016

Ulterran is a short visual experimentation that follows two women through a pagan ritual to connect to the versions of themselves that exist in another spiritual dimension.

Pink Hill

2019

Four friends spend a final summer together tangled in a web of sexual obsession, alienation and magic.

The Bright Day

2013

THE BRIGHT DAY weaves a story that has its roots in the complexity of Iran’s draconian laws governing capital punishment. A kindergarten teacher hopes to aid the father of one of her young students, a man accused of manslaughter, by convincing each of seven reluctant witnesses to come forward. No one lacks a hidden agenda in this drama in which shades of truth collide with self-interest and the specter of payback. (Gene Siskel Film Center)

Primitive

2009

A series of short films in which the history of the Thai border town of Nabua is re-imagined as an elusive science fiction ghost story rooted in Thai folklore.