Rhapsody in Black & White

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  There Is Only Light

  Luis Buñuel once said: ‘There is no narrative, there is only light’. Shot in Warsaw, There Is Only Light was filmed using a faulty S8 c

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  A Woman and Circles

  An adaptation of a film script by Jan Brzekowski (1903-1983), poet and member of a Polish avant-garde group. In 1930, while living in Paris, Brzeko

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  Grey

  A snow-covered landscape, quietness, the passing of the seasons, a permanently empty flat. Grey’s theme deals with emotional distress caused

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  ((()))

  A window shuttered between a light-sensitive mechanism – ‘camera’ – and photo-synthetic aperture – ‘blinds̵

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  Palm

  In a Christian context, palms are a symbol of victory, a foreshadowing of rebirth. Sandra Gibson’s use of palm fronds as a purely visual subj

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• Monochro.me 2

  The image of a young child. The suggestion of a repeated sense of loss. This video is inspired by the game of the spool as mentioned by Freud in hi

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  La jeune fille et la mort

  This video is a letter to a missing person. The spectator has the choice of either following the narration and/or observing the abstract pattern of

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  Warning: Petroleum Pipeline

  A photo and video collage in black and white computer animation. A desolate desert landscape is slowly transforming into a futuristic industrialize

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  Kilvo

  A remote, barren, almost unfriendly landscape: Kilvo in Lapland was the inspiration for Radian’s music, and even the accompanying visuals by

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  Interlude

  A short meditation inspired by the track Interlude by the British band Manyfingers, a Chris Cole project. The film shows a group of ‘Lookdown Fish&

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  Medicine Box

  Medicine Box takes as its starting point the interior of a medicine cabinet. Pills of different shapes and sizes are arranged in Morse Code fashion

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  Even odd Even

  The images Barbara Doser produces plunge into their own abyss. She makes videographies that have nothing to do with film. What we can see has been

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