We are pleased to be screening the following films at STUK arts center in Leuven as part of Time/Bank Belgium.

VPRO Tegenlicht
Eerlijk zullen we alles delen...
2011 - 49 min
19 Feb, 26 Feb, 8 March, 17 March

(Dutch language only) In deze donkere dagen, de verjaardag van de vrijgevige goedheiligman, waarin altruïsme en “eerlijk zullen we alles delen” in hoog aanzien staan brengt de redactie van Tegenlicht u een strooigoed uitzending.
In ons rijke archief gaan wij op zoek naar de veerkracht van de nieuwe mens die uit de as van de puinhoop van de Europese crisis zal herrijzen. Met Robin Hood, Jim Rogers, Peter Sloterdijk en vele andere bekenden...

Samenstelling: Marije Meerman, Productie Helen Goossens, Eindredactie Henneke Hagen / Jos de Putter

Fritz Lang
Metropolis
1927 - 153 min
20 Feb, 29 Feb, 9 March, 18 March

Anton Vidokle
New York Conversations
2010 - 66 min
21 Feb, 1 March, 10 March

New York Conversations is a text film. Shot in a Chinatown storefront converted for this occasion into an improvised kitchen/restaurant, the film documents three days of public conversations between artists, critics, curators, and a free floating public. The talks, lunches, and dinners were organized by Rirkrit Tiravanija, Nico Dockx, and Anton Vidokle in response to an invitation by Brussels-based art journal A Prior to be the subject of their new issue. Instead of commissioning essays or producing artwork to be printed in the journal, the artists decided to rethink the structure by which an art publication is produced and to attempt to do this discursively in a public setting. The film is a subjective record of these conversations, which explored various topics ranging from questions concerning precarious and immaterial labor in the field of art, to more immediate questions concerning whether what was actually taking place throughout the course of the event was in fact an artwork.

With: Francisca Benitez, Nico Dockx, Daniel Faust, Media Farzin, Liam Gillick, Egon Hanfstingl, Jörg Heiser, Steven Kaplan, Shama Khanna, Anders Kreuger, Miwon Kwon, Valerie Mannaerts, Sis Matthé, Hadley Nunes, Saul Ostrow, Marti Peran, Simon Rees, Els Roelandt, Dieter Roelstraete, Martha Rosler, Joe Scanlan, Maxwel Stephen, Monika Szewczyk, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Jan Verwoert, Anton Vidokle, Lawrence Weiner, Andrea Wiarda, Louwrien Wijers and others.

Claude Faraldo
Themroc
1973 - 110 min
22 Feb, 2 March, 11 March

The 1973 classic Themroc by director Claude Faraldo. Made on a low budget with no intelligible dialog, Themroc tells the story of a French blue collar worker who rebels against modern society, reverting into an urban caveman. The film’s scenes of incest and cannibalism earned it adults-only ratings, and it featured in the UK Channel 4′s red triangle series of controversial films in 1986.

Adam Curtis
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
2011 – 3 x 60 min
23 Feb, 3 March, 14 March

Three films that challenge the present utopian dreams about computers, and the prevalent belief that they can create an alternative networked world where all hierarchies and systems of power will die away. The films show through three different stories how that belief is an illusion―one that, in reality, helps create the very opposite. It reinforces the growing power of today’s unelected elites in the spheres of business, science, and finance.

Adam Curtis is a documentary filmmaker and journalist. He works for BBC television in London. His films have won many awards―including six BAFTAs. His series The Power of Nightmares was invited to the Cannes Film Festival in 2005. Curtis also writes multi-media political and cultural essays on a BBC website using longer sections of film from the archives―www.bbc.co.uk/adamcurtis