Belgium
71 Archival description results for Belgium
Musical notes have the power to affect and enhance our feelings. From birth to death, life in northern India is punctuated by music. The hindi/urdu word « rag » means colour or passion. Therefore a raga can be defined as an accoustic method of colouring the mind of the listener with emotion. For centuries, its oral transmission has maintained the essential qualities of this remarkable tradition.
Lies can bring happiness if you realise they are real! A series of panels where you can meet the ever-ecstatic Teresa de Avila, the mightily phlegmatic Anubis and other perverted figures of a strange third mind world.
Untitled"I traveled across Mauritania to find a tree that I saw from my window in Belgium. It wasn't a mythical tree, but rather one that could be anywhere. On my way, I met men and women who shared their perception of this quest and in doing so, in a roundabout way they shared some of their visions of the world and existence. For some, my tree was the sign from the spirits, of the invisible or a call from light. For others, it was the symbol of a history, a culture or the end of a period in time. For yet others, it was a tree that you see only when you get lost".
UntitledA documentary filmed in Andalucia, dealing with illegal immigration from Morocco. This politically far-sighted film tells the stories of these Moroccan immigrants and the shame and impotence they feel, unable to return home and reveal their failure to their families and friends. "When men cry..." is when they realize that they are in a dead-end street. A moment of unbearable suffering, beyond limits. The end of everything, the unspeakable. A cry from the soul that falls into the bland silence of a system that is too well organized and determined to buy their strength and their silence. A cry within absolute silence. An extreme situation in which it is impossible to leave, and impossible to stay.
In an area of Brussels that I do not know, I randomly selected a street. I decided to come here every Sunday with a camera and a microphone to meet population. The film is made of seven encounters, where we try to understand each other, and talk about little or big things that life is made of.
Towards the end of the 18th century, artists from Florence reproduced in wax bodies that had been dissected by surgeons. In a symetrical way, “Petite anatomie” features images through cuts, grafts, dissections. The result is a mixture of strange creatures.
By subjecting fragments from the Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon to a mirror effect, Provost creates a hallucinatory scene of a woman's reverse chrysalis into an imploding butterfly. This physical audiovisual experience produces skewed reflections upon Love, its lyrical monstrosities, and a wounded act of disappearance.
In the context of the since 1974 divided island of Cyprus, 'nostalgia' questions the geopolitical meaning of land and the touristic exploitation of the landscape in relation to political propaganda. 'nostalgia' also reflects on the emotionally evoking and provoking qualities of the landscape. How can this physical border between Greek and Turkish Cyprus be a mental border?
Each year thousands of asylum seekers risk their lives when crossing the Mediterranean Sea in an attempt to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa. As an anti-image of the way traditional media generally approach this subject, ‘nocturne' is a reflection in infrared, showing nocturnal landscapes of the island and capturing its schizophrenic and tense atmosphere.