.Yl 1997 - 372

Fanny, a beautiful young woman, enters Fydjys, a classy jewelry store in Brussels, and asks to see an emerald ring. It is rare, explains the proprietor, found by an antique dealer in Prague...

A brawny, comic book he-man is seduced by a mysterious femme fatal. While in the throes of sexual intercourse, he finds himself suddenly transported into outer space, and then to the land of Oz.

The dishonourable Dokter Schnitzel uses the energy of young people to make his deceased mother live again.

The voyage of an old Chinese professor, living in Budapest, to his and present-day China. Can he free himself from his anxieties after years of humiliation? Can one make up for things lost?

Pura Vida, Spanish for the pure life, is a 16mm film documenting the lifestyle of skiers and snowboarders who search the globe living for deep snow and big mountains.

This fantasy experimental short film was made for ‘The awakening of the spring’, a spectacle staged by Bruno Lajara presented at the Festival of Avignon. It was shot, edited and forged in beta SP ; then kinescoped into 16mm. This film has also been screened into a part of the decoration set of the theatre piece. "After the suicide of his best friend, one of the characters, Melchior, is haunted by the ghosts of his companions and his first love." This is a silent film, without any credits. During a screening, it is planned to accompany it live by the musicians of Debout sur le Zinc.

A young man shut himself up in a house on sea shore for two weeks. He brought only music recorded tapes. He wants to write on music, the main question being for him: what represents music for man? He tells eight experiments done in different places or occasions (in a car, at the opera, at a rock gig, listening a walkman,..). He expresses how the way you are listening can affect your feelings and reflection. His voice and his written words appearing on screen are the mental counterpoint of silent images.

Paul Ramírez Jonas’ Longer Day (1997) is an attempt to make a summer day longer as he drives west into the sunset, racing against the dying light. In Michael Stanley’s words, a “sense of futile endeavour pervades the work and an almost perverse celebration of ‘failure’, as the unwritten history of technological progression provides a platform for the discussion of much broader concerns such as time, memory and loss.”

The film is a cinematic articulation of inculcating curiosity in classroom spaces. It urges reflection on the idea that education is not just about gaining knowledge; it is also about being open to dialogue, self-awareness, and personal transformation.

A film about violence. Political, social, cultural and family violence.

Short film by Chris Shepherd

Depicts how New Agers, the Mexican state, tourists, and 1920s archaeologists all contend to “clear” the site of the antique Maya city of Chichen Itza in order to produce their own idealized and unobstructed visions of “Maya” while the local Maya themselves struggle to occupy the site as vendors and artisans.

A retired game show baron and his estranged gay son spar over old family bitterness and popular culture while testing recipes for a book on the history of cocktails.

Featuring two schoolgirls and a woman who appears to be their mother, this surreal piece of girlish dreaming translates the world of Midori Ozaki and Leonora Carrington's works into the visual world.