Paradocs is a program in which the ‘periphery’ of the documentary genre takes center stage. It showcases what is going on beyond the frame of traditional documentary filmmaking, on the borders between film and art, truth and fiction and narrative and design.
Selection 2011
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Antwerp
In a poetic voice-over, a Russian man reflects on the moment he arrived as a young boy in Antwerp, together with thousands of other Russian immigrants.
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Asleep
By looking in a different way at everyday places, director Clarissa Campolina gets to know another side to her home city of Belo Horizonte in Brazil.
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The Beautiful Language
Truffaut's L'enfant sauvage (1970) transformed into a highly relevant reflection on authoritarian colonial systems. Civilization produces its own barbarians.
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C.A.P.E
An individual, immersive experience that uses the latest technologies to transport its users to a virtual Brussels.
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Carlos Nader
Video artist Carlos Nader's defiant non-autobiography records the moment that an individual's identity gets blurred, turning the autobiography genre inside out in the process.
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Chanel Aubazine - Paris
A journey, recorded using a pinhole camera, to places where French fashion designer Coco Chanel lived and worked - the similarities between them are revealing.
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The City
Revealing snippets from the life of a Moroccan immigrant in Spain. His wild expression betrays his transformation from optimism into despair.
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Cruzada
A childlike yet serious game with form, color, rhythm and movement, performed by 16 musicians.
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Excursions in the Dark
Very personal recollections of what Egyptians dreamed during the uprising against their regime; the Arab Spring is transformed into a projection of the unconscious.
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Hypnosis
A hypnotizing mini-drama and almost abstract recording of a Ferris wheel by night, which disintegrates into overlapping red and yellow flashes of light.
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I Will Forget this Day
Oppressive scenes of young women in the bleak waiting room of a Russian clinic. Rudnitskaya penetrates deeply into the minds of these inwardly focused women.
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The Miners' Hymns
An elegy in slow motion about the history of coal mining in northeastern England, made by renowned filmmaker Bill Morrison (Decasia) and famous Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannson.
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Mont Age
Experimental filmmaker Zoot Derks invites the audience to participate in his performative video installation questioning the editing of video images.
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My Name Is Peng
A candid portrait of a Chinese immigrant who obsessively filmed himself following his arrival in Europe. He doesn't spare his own feelings.
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Passage
In the footsteps of Libério, who takes an endless, aimless walk along the Brazilian highway. The end of the road is nowhere in sight.
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Printed Matter
Private lives and geopolitics come together on a single roll of photos. After a hard day's work, Middle East press photographer André Brutmann would finish off his roll with photos of life at home...
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Public Solitude
On a square in Brazil, filmmaker Daniel Aragão offers passersby three real (about one euro) to film three minutes of their solitude.
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Reformation
The director returns to a strict religious village in the Dutch Bible Belt, where she was once feared as an "alien" child and a "city whore."
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Saba
A beautifully filmed but gloomy portrait of the day in the life of two Brazilian hundred-year-olds: their home, their bodies, and how they are waiting.
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Soul Catcher
A meditative reflection on how photography impacts on our identity, accompanied by metaphysical soundscapes by the veteran ambient group Biosphere.
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The Strawberry Tree
This cinematic poem about a Cuban fishing village, filmed just weeks before it was obliterated by a hurricane, explores the boundary between ethnography and reverie.
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Viva Paradis
Static tableaux of an almost deserted luxury hotel in Tunisia, filmed during a week just after the recent revolution.
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Yellow Limbo
A re-edit of recent footage, archive photos and Super 8 films shot on 14 cargo ships stranded in the Suez Canal for eight years.
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