Sven Augustijnen
Le Guide du Parc
Belgium 2001, 44’
Fictitious documentary about a guard in a Brussels park who conducts a tour of the ‘cruise’ areas there. During the tour he volunteers hilarious but also crystal clear analyses of the behaviour of the men who come to the park looking for anonymous sexual encounters.
Thursday 22 May

Ivanka Helena Bakker
Chunking House
Netherlands 2002, 31’
Bakker lived for three weeks in Chunking Mansion, a housing complex in Hong Kong that appeals to one’s imagination. She went looking for the stories of the people living there – mostly criminals, prostitutes and illegal residents – for whom anonymity is a condition for survival.
Thursday 22 May

André Colinet
Larguez les amarres
België 2001, 58"
An audio-visual poetic essay about anthropologists Robert A. Fischer and Henri Stock. Art, the individual and society are topics of discussion. Henri tells of his meeting with Eisenstein, Robert talks of alphabetical and digital codes, techno-culture and his illness.
Friday 23 May

Theo Eshetu
Africanized
Italië 2002, 34’
Experimental short film based on Eshetu’s observations while traveling around the world. Eshetu explores themes like global communication, technology and the concept of ‘the other’.
Friday 23 May

Patrick de Geetere
A Estoria Das Horas - Histoire des Heures
France 2002, 130’
A video that is reminiscent of the 1970s. A long, sultry visual poem, compiled from slumbering scenes of fleeting, transient moments and loving observations of people from his personal life.
Thursday 22 May

Kiko Goifman & Jurandir Müller
Apalling Eyes
Brazilië 2000, 10’
Pain, misery, desertion, wrinkles. An experimental, poetic documentary about old age and the process that leads there, inspired by a poem by Arthur Rimbaud.
Thursday 22 May
Saturday 24 May

Iratxe Jaio
A Twenty-Four Hours a Day Revolution
Netherlands/Spain 2002, 35’
Jaio demonstrates how the meaning of words like justice, violence and freedom are defined by culture. In this poignant documentary three people from the Bask region wearing white masks are being interviewed about their motives, ambitions and ideals. How far are they prepared to go to achieve their goal?
Thursday 22 May
Saturday 24 May

Evaldas Jansas
Body and Soul
Lituania 2000, 18’
Interviews with night people in the streets and in bars about the relationship between body and mind. The lively conversations and Jansas’ ‘in-your-face’ camera work totally reveal the frame of mind of a number of people from Vilnius in post-Soviet Lithuania.
Thursday 22 May
Friday 23 May

Gintaras Makarevicius
Hot
Lituania 1999, 14’
An empty factory canteen inspired Makarevicius to invite a group of employees to have lunch and share their memories. However, the every- day reality of social instability and uncertainty prevents the past from becoming the subject of conversation. The four toasts that are proposed make up the backbone of the video.
Thursday 22 May
Friday 23 May

David Sherman
To Re-Edit the World
USA 2002, 32’
By chance Sherman discovers the film archive of Dion Vigne - an unknown Beat filmmaker from San Francisco. Sherman becomes obsessed with Vigne’s work. He interprets, (re)edits and reworks the original films and in doing so he paints a unique picture of on of the most important periods in the history of underground filmmaking in America.
Friday 23 May

Akram Zaatari
Her + Him
Lebanon 2001, 32’
A nude portrait of a grandmother is the pretext for visiting the Armenian/Egyptian photographer Van Leo. This documentary combines photography with video, black and white with colour, commenting on the changes that have taken place in Egypt over the past fifty years.
Saturday 10 May
Thursday 23 May