Blind Spots
Overview of films
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Eidola
Peter Miller | 6' | France | None
Artist Peter Miller used infrared glasses to examine a coil in the camera and wrote his ‘images’ onto it with a laser pen. -
Eigenlicht
Melvin Moti | 18' | Netherlands | None
Certain minerals convert absorbed UV light into visible colours of unearthly beauty. Shown in sacred, cosmic silence. -
Facebookistan
Jakob Gottschau | 59' | Denmark | International premiere
What is Facebook’s true face like? What hides behind Mark Zuckerberg’s baby face? This documentary tries – in vain – to put a face to… -
A Good American
Friedrich Moser | 100' | Austria | None
Bill Binney, a former American secret service staffer talks about the period preceding whistleblower Snowden’s revelations. Or how the NSA was more in -
Hello
11' | Germany | None
A Mexican woman talks about her childhood on the rubbish tip. A German with a severe disability in both hands explains about his job as… -
L’invitation au voyage
Meggy Rustamova | 13' | Belgium | None
A series of beautiful black-and-white photographs marred by yellow Post-its with their notes erased. An unassuming narrator makes them even more myste -
The Light and the Paper
Sara van der Heide | 3' | Netherlands | World premiere
How empty is a blank page? This film carefully studies the prime precondition for seeing: the presence of light. -
Lightkeeping
Elias Heuninck | 12' | Belgium | European premiere
Quotes from photographic pioneer William Fox Talbot’s letters accompany black-and-white images that exude timeless calm. -
La montagne magique
Andrei Schtakleff | 68' | France | International premiere
A camera takes us deep underground where Bolivian miners toil in primitive conditions. A time-machine film that takes us through the pitch black to a -
Oncle Bernard – L’anti-leçon d’économie
Richard Brouillette | 79' | Canada | None
Posthumous portrait of Charlie Hebdo satirist and economic commentator Bernard Maris. The footage dates back to the spring of 2000. Long before the ba -
Sakala
Simon Halsberghe | 11' | Belgium | World premiere
This study of the forgotten statue of Sakala, the first African boy to visit Belgium in 1884, critically analyses Western perspectives. -
Unseen: The Lives of Looking
Dryden Goodwin | 90' | United Kingdom | None
In his first documentary essay, artist Dryden Goodwin visits an eye surgeon, a NASA researcher and a human-rights lawyer. He literally (with a pencil)