Reveal the Hidden
Fri 19 March 2010 - 13:00
Sat 20 March 2010 - 17:30
Sphinx

To discover is to find, perceive, notice, detect, experience, distinguish, learn, identify, expose, divulge, reveal...

Apnea
Michel Pavlou, 2009, BE, GR, video, 2'

Filmmaker and multimedia artist Michel Pavlou takes our breath away with his movie about two boys and a ladybird. A reflection on the utopia of a careless youth. “It is never too late to have a happy childhood” says American novelist Tom Robbins. So take your chance.

Contre-Jour
Matthias Müller, Christoph Girardet, 2009, DE, video, 11'

A movie about seeing and not seeing. Müller and Girardet attempt to visualize blindness. The result is an extreme game with light and darkness. Now and then faces appear out of obscurity, but they never fully reveal themselves. To be watched with eyes open, or shut.

Les Phospènes de Stéphanie
Florian Ecrepont, Stéphanie Maton, 2009, BE, video, 4'

A 22 years old Belgian-Mauritian girl tells about the mysterious spots which accompany her every day...

[SIC]
Éric Baudelaire, 2008, FR, video, 15'

Baudelaire documents the Japanese cultural phenomenon ‘bokashi’: a legislative form of censorship by blurring the image. Because of the ambiguity of the law, individuals have to decide what they’ll blur. In [sic], the censoring, executed by a girl in an art shop, takes on surprising shapes.

 

The Marina Experiment
Marina Lutz, 2009, US, video, 18'

The experiment is the result of the reassembling of numerous polaroids and hours of home footage that Lutz’s father made of Marina during 20 years. Her father’s voyeurism is turned against himself. At the same time a courageous self portrait grows out of the nearly incestuous ‘home movies’. The outcome is an eerie family exposé, which in an unique way raises the question about the right not to be seen.

Glass Jars
Alec Soth, 2009, US, video, 6'

An American family is arrested for several child abuses. The victims wrote their experiences on notes, put them in glass jars, and buried them. Recently the case was discovered, and the family arrested. Alec Soth, freelance journalist, reports of his quest for the jars and the story behind it. He makes use of a beautiful black and white photography, that reminds strongly of Marker’s La Jetée.

Inter[pose
Peter Downsbrough, 2009, US, BE, video, 5'

Downsbrough takes the pier of the British seaside village Deal as a starting point for his black-and-white short film. The jetty interposes itself between the British land and the North Sea, thus opening up space for meditating the whole world.