Chinese Ghost Story is a poetic essay in which history and landscape converge to explore the construction of the railroad where 1,300 Chinese laborers lost their lives. There are no stories without places, and places are largely silent to what occurs. The retelling of Pu Songling's (1640-1715) “Kon-Sun-Ju-Liang” sets the counterpoint for this tale of the 1869 Transcontinental Railroad. Throughout the American West, we searched for those absent from the 19th century A.J. Russell photograph documenting the joining together of the eastern and western United States.

"In 1996, I was staying in the village of Mankien in South Sudan to film the war which was taking place. At the time, I thought that making a film about an area struggling with such a severe conflict would almost have to be an act of duty. Once there, the reality appeared completely different from what I initially imagined it would be. The war that was all around me was not only a struggle between an oppressive government and a downtrodden minority but a latent conflict driven by power and economic interests. Back in Belgium, I felt overwhelmed by a strong feeling of helplessness and disillusionment to the point of never showing these images, up to now. A short while ago, I was told that the village of Mankien had been subjected to a massacre orchestrated by the Khartoum government with more than the slight complicity of Western oil companies. Closed District is not only a film about the war in South Sudan, but more about wars in general, about the death and distress that often ensues. It also raises the question of the filmmaker's place in a situation of conflict". (Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd)

The sacrifice. The lessons of death, its open spaces. Video Serie: El Hamdulillah Tapes * Pirate Utopias & European Renegadoes.

The urban and social structure of neighbourhoods in the medina is one of vast intricacy and complexity, being organized around a series of vital establishments for the everyday life of their inhabitants, such as the hammam or public baths, the bakery, schools and the foundouk, or caravanserai. Communal bakeries provide the heating for the public baths or hammam, fully active establishments that are very important for the cohesion of the city's social fabric. Foundouks are establishments where visiting merchants traditionally stayed and stored their products overnight. Most have now lost their original function and are adapted for other uses, such as dwellings or workshops.

The Margins of the Empire _ OVNI 2008

/ CONTEXT 1994 - 2020

Pierre-Yves Vanderweerd

Choque de Civilizaciones

Walkin' to New Orleans

United States of America.

From Beirut to... those who love us

United States of America,

Doing Time, Doing Vipassana

Le Beurre et l'Argent du Beurre

An unsparing yet redemptive depiction of the inevitable grief, religious passions and frequent happiness that punctuate daily life in Benares, India's most holy city. Cinematographically transfiguring, and unfolding without commentary, subtitles or dialogue, “Forest of Bliss” is an attempt to give the viewer a wholly authentic though greatly magnified and concentrated sense of participation in the experiences examined by the film

This documentary looks at the use of traditional medicines to treat the ills of our age. Ibogaine reveals the strong overlap between seemingly distant cultural identities. Ibogaine is a plant alkaloid found in the root bark of the West African shrub Tabernanthe Iboga. It has the unique property of removing withdrawal symptoms and reducing cravings from substances that cause chemical dependence, such as heroin, cocaine and alcohol. It has long been used as a traditional medicinal and spiritual tool in West Africa. For the last forty years, it has increasingly been taken up in Western society as a tool for addiction therapy, where its complex effects on the human brain prove its psychotherapeutic potential and also reveal new information about the mechanisms of memory, learning and dreams.