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Point de départ
Cinematic scenes of a young girl with her grandfather mixed with recent personal video material.
Alexia lives and works in Brussels.

What is Happiness? It is a mathematical formula, based on the number of good deeds a person makes during their lifetime, with the subtraction of all their mistakes. How can one find it?
The result of three months of fieldwork is a feature-length ethnographic film, currently in post-production. Shot in full HD, it is an exploration of the eccentric aesthetic of the commune, juxtaposed with bucolic images of the Ukrainian countryside. It is a clashing, highly conflictual narrative where stakes are high and errors unavoidable. It is finally, a deeply personal negotiation with participants whose dreams and aspirations contradict the fundamental philosophy of the filmmaker. This film does not ask “what is happiness?” It asks who owns the question.
Gregory lives and works in New-Foundland, Canada.

Memory Blossoms deals with the ephemeral moments in life.
The attempt to grasp them resulted in an image bank of recollections.
In 'Memory Blossoms' Tine Guns places these images in a different context to give them back the scent of memory.

Bars
Eisa is formed as visual artist and pole dancer. In this project she wants to question herself and her relation to her body and the pole. In the Philippines, pole dancing is used in three different environments: Men's bar, Fitness clubs and the own studio. She will focus on visual choreography, steel and flesh melting together; contrasts becoming one. Intimacy, power,the gaze, performance, voice choreography, exchange of work spaces.
Eisa lives and works in Manila, Filippines.

Gaze as Spiritual Dimension
Experimental film on the extraordinary talents of Dodda's grandmother. About spiritualism,family bondings,the invisible...
The project is based on interviews with the grandmother, a medium. She has a way of living that is a bit 'outside of the frame'. How is life lived by 'free will'? A starting point for this project is the gaze behind the camera and the voice behind the gaze.
There will be played with theatricality, moving image connected to conscience, all part of the experiments with the grandmother and the 'unseen powers'.
Dodda lives and works in Reykjavik, Iceland.

titre-a-venir
Cécile used to spend a part of her childhood in Africa. Today, she is selling her family gold for a ticket to Kinshasa. The selling of the gold is a way to show who she is and where she comes from. In Kinshasa, Cécile wants to film in and around the university. To Cécile it is important to tell 'a different story of Congo' and to have a focus on a strong little thing. Once in Kinshasa, Cécile doesn't want to relate to her background anymore. She wants to explore, together with Pedro, a particular story in Kinshasa...
Cécile lives and works in Brussels.

Little sister is an intimate and poetic documentary.
My sister Anne-Sophie is born deaf. During one summer, I take my camera to document the relation between us. Together we measure the distance covered between our childhood and the present.
Ségolène lives and works in Nancy.

L'une et l'autre
Is a filmic personal story through the decisions of other people. Lola looked for herself through the other, lets herself guide by other women, lets herself be hypnotised by their voices...
The film is about exchange, sharing and making choices.
Lola lives and works in Brussels.

BY OTHERS' / EXPERIMENT
In this project Sandra reflects on her position as visual anthropologist. Once the visual comes to question, the parameters of the camera are not sufficient to the parameters of anthropology. Can we make a film in full collaboration? As Sandra puts in question her carrier as filmmaker, there is a big need to make this film. She invests on the relation between humans and technology. The big dilemma to be solved will be the choice between letting go the control of quality and making good cinema. How will Sandra give up controling her personal work? Where and how will we feel the comon ground?
Sandra lives and works in London.

Gimka and Golka and Me
The book "GIMKA UND GOLKA" made Susanne dream of Africa as being a paradise for many years. For this film and installation Susanne visits the Cameronese community where the book is based upon. Susanne started her research and received a lot of information from the people that made the book in the 1970'S. Will this film start on the plane, already before, or in Africa?
Susanne lives and works in Berlin.

Qui voit ses veines 44'
Last summer I returned to the house of my grandparents, a place where I spent a lot of time during my childhood. By entering the past, I share the present time and the daily life with my grandparents again. The story is told by my grandfather, the last witness of the WOII family-history. Until today I question to open the silence of a secret…

"Méandres" , 35', production AJC (with the support of Graphoui and SIC 2009)
In a confined space a dancer works out a routine through trial and error and experimentation, gradually giving it shape and bringing it to life. Playing on formal juxtapositions and the fragmentation of time, the film casts a direct, intimate and silent look on this body in motion.
Meanderings recounts the fragile and relentless, transient and almost indescribable process of creation – from sketched inception to representation.
Screenings 2009/2010 : Brigittines, Netwerk, CCM Molenbeek, Pianofabriek

Recontructing Sudan

In quest for the perfect representation of my memories from South Sudan, I am gathering pieces of conversations, images, and sounds, which seem not to belong to the Sudanese reality. It is a story of a struggle with exotic fascination, frustration with the existing representations and impossibility of transmitting the memory.

In MAHILA (women), the filmmaker steps between different worlds, going from West to East, from urban to rural surroundings. Her encounters with the experiences and observations of rural Indian women provoke reflection on the process of empowerment. In an artistic ethnography we see and hear how they are using education, technology and politics to redefine their destinies. As we trace the film-maker's memories we are taken into questions about story-telling. How are the women fighting to get their stories heard? Can the filmmaker tell other women's stories?

Luke filmed the landscape and its ruins in the region where he grew up. It is a former mining area. The only images left of that period are a film by Ken Loach, Kess, which will be partly re-enacted.

Corrupted C#n#m#
Can we connect nature to hardware? Angelo wants to reanimate digital hardware with 'organic power' and surgical material. The tradition of abstract cinema gets transposed to the digital age.

Nadine revisites her anthropological films of the Dogon community. She feels the need to explore her personal language of filming. She wants to reveal non-verbal communications and emotions in stead of simply registrating social action. Can these images also reveal her personal story?

Jaap 30'
The documentary-project of Mieke Witkamp is about her brother, Jaap. He was diagnosed with autism about one year ago at the age of 24. Autism marks the category that Jaap now belongs to. For Mieke he is still the same, her brother, that she is very proud of. She filmed her brother in the house where he lives with his mother and her boyfriend, and shared the camera with them. Soon Jaap will leave the protection of the house in Breda. The documentary marks the end of a period and the threshold to a next stage in his life.

‘Splendor and Sandness’

‘Notre mariage’

‘Just follow’

‘Undeva la Mijloc - Quelque part au milieu – Somewhere in between’

‘De vogel en de kooi’

‘Jerusalem, the adulterous wife’