KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS 010 - Video director Sarah Vanagt has chosen her own street, the Boulevard d’Ypres, as both the setting and theme of her latest project. Urban development and gentrification threaten this ‘Mediterranean’ area. So in order to memorialize her street, Vanagt went out to meet shop owners and anyone else she came across, assembling their stories to create a fairy tale.

starring Werner Hirsch

A probing documentary on the fascinating life of the dance icon, pioneer and performer Anna Halprin.

Under the title Big Heap / Mountain, Miet Warlop creates a number of ‘propositions’ regarding what can and cannot be perceived. For each of these propositions, she looks for one or more partners in crime. She explores the boundaries of our imagination with a small arsenal of everyday objects and shows us how much fantasy we put into our struggles with reality.

Het Theaterfestival '09 - Armed with a camera, Renzo Martens undertook a journey for years on end through the Congo. He examined Africa’s most lucrative manufacture of export: filmed poverty. As with gold or cacao, the locals barely get anything in return for this product. Therefore Martens launches a campaign deep in the jungle of Congo to teach the African people ‘to profit’ from their poverty. Enjoy Poverty is a combination of journalism, satire and an obstinate, critical look.