Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!
Muckraking filmmaker Morgan Spurlock reignites his battle with the food industry — this time from behind the register — as he opens his own fast food restaurant.
Borinage
Henri Storck and Joris Ivens’ landmark of social documentary, blending staged scenes with locals and on-the-spot reportage to depict the 1932 miners’ strike in Belgium’s Borinage—evictions, hunger, and police repression—transforming outrage into a call for solidarity.
Kids from the Coal Land: A Letter to Henri Storck
In the form of a posthumous letter to Storck, using clippings from the original 'Borinage' film, the director paints a personal picture about a corner of Western Europe, where shocking living conditions of those trapped within
JUGGERNAUT
In the found-footage film JUGGERNAUT, men from YouTube archives take center stage. They participate in an endless competition for the title of "THE BEST." To achieve this, the film uses documentary footage from the 1950s that extol the virtues of capitalism, as well as a flood of YouTube videos uploaded by men revealing their secrets to getting rich quickly.
HF6 - Le film
A documentary about the unexpected restart of ArcelorMittal’s Blast Furnace 6 in Seraing, Belgium, which Arcelor had shut down in 2005. From a union perspective, the film invites viewers to experience the daily lives of the workers who, for months, lived through the many twists and turns of a story with high stakes for the Liège steel industry and some 10,000 families, filled with anxiety, hope, and emotion.
Emerald ▣
A continuously running two-channel installation, presented on 9" and 13" CRT monitors atop pedestals and overlooked by a green Kit-Cat clock. The smaller CRT bears a painted green square and is framed by a pair of crossed silver opera gloves, at whose intersection rests a vintage push-puppet of two boxers sharing a single red stand. Together, the two monitors display distinct video collages interweaving footage from Emerald Square Mall and the strike during its 1989 construction with remixed interferences from Channel J's Emerald City TV (1976–1979), Huge Video's Heat in the Night (1989), Genet's Un Chant d'Amour (1950), various cigarette commercials, The Wizard of Oz (1939), and a performance of a mylar-clad entity wrapping one of the televisions in videotape. The work has most frequently circulated publicly through its primary video channel.