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The Color of Love (Peggy Ahwesh, 1994)
The Color of Love (Peggy Ahwesh, 1994)

    The Color of Love

    Peggy Ahwesh, USA, 1994, 10’

    According to Peggy Ahwesh, there is beauty and ecstasy in decay. With her 16mm blow-up of a pornographic Super 8 film, the American artist seeks sensuality. The discarded stag reel has mould stains, scratches, and cracks, but these also add colour. Rot adds something lustful to the performative sex scenes that paint over the mould and dance to melancholic tango.

    A motionless, bloodied man lies naked on a bed beneath this kaleidoscopic splendour. Two women kiss his flaccid member and caress it with a knife. The perverse sexual fantasy, though difficult to decipher due to abrasion, unquestionably caters to the male gaze. Ahwesh’s montage emphasises this by slowing down and repeating explicit close-ups. Her intervention, which she dedicates to sexploitation icon Doris Wishman, feels like a welcome critique of the superficial source material.

    Flo Vanhorebeek
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    This film was part of yanco’s October 2026 calendar

    experimental eroticism

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    À l’usage des vivants

    Pauline Fonsny, Belgium, 2019, 27’

    In 1998, Semira Adamu, a 20-year-old Nigerian immigrant, died on Belgian soil of suffocation under a police pillow. Twenty years later, two women tell her story in a cry for justice. Through this film, they highlight the reality of detention centres: the harsh conditions of confinement, the suffering of detainees and the abuse by guards and police officers.

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    The Hymns of Muscovy

    Dimitri Venkov, Russia, 2018, 14’

    The Hymns of Muscovy is a trip to the eponymous planet, which is an upside-down space twin of the city of Moscow. Gliding along its surface, we look down at the sky and see historic architectural styles fly by—the exuberant Socialist Classicism, aka the Stalinist Empire, the laconic and brutalist Soviet Modernism, and the hodgepodge of their contemporary knock-offs and revivals.

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    The Age of Anxiety

    Taiki Sakpisit, Thailand, 2013, 14’

    An audiovisual meditation on the fin de siècle in Thailand.

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    Yarokamena

    Andrés Jurado, Colombia, Portugal, 2022, 21’

    In 20th-century Colombia, resistance fighter Yarokamena, a member of the indigenous Uitoto tribe, called for rebellion against violent exploitation of the rubber mining industry in the Amazone and invoked the spiritual powers of war.

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    Language of the Entrails

    Luciana Decker Orozco, Bolivia, USA, 2025, 12’

    A journey to the underworld begins within our own entrails. This film explores the intimate rhythm of digestion only to next investigate the becoming of geological eras, inspired by Gamaliel Churata’s El Pez de Oro, in which he states, “we all carry the dead alive; that the dead live.”

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    Snow Edge

    Juan Francisco Rodríguez, Colombia, 2021, 15’

    The thaw of the so-called eternal snow of Páramo, a neotropical alpine ecosystem in the high Andes, exposes a layer of meaning about the origins and survival of the landscape.

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    Copa-Loca

    Christos Massalas, Greece, 2017, 14’

    This is the story of Copa-Loca. Paulina is the girl at the heart of this abandoned Greek summer resort. Everyone cares for her and she cares about everyone – in every possible way.

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    elephantfish

    Meltse Van Coillie, Belgium, 2018, 27’

    A ship drifts in the middle of an endless sea. Aboard is a crew of five. They all cope with boredom — some by trying to overpower it; others by escaping into a parallel world guided by dreams.

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