While the previous themes of police brutality, conflicting masculinities and state censorship still echo in the background, our microcinema now turns its gaze toward a new yet closely related concern: war, and more specifically, the impossibility of evading its ever-expanding brutality. Esther Johnson and the Austrian collective Total Refusal pay tribute to acts of desertion and resistance in their respective films, while Koen Theys induces a sensory interlude with The Dynamite Show. Isabelle Tollenaere, Roy Villevoye, and Jan Dietvorst measure the impact of an inescapable battlefield echoing through history.

Total Refusal, How to disappear (2020)
Austria, 21 min
English spoken, English subtitles

Roy Villevoye & Jan Dietvorst, War is Over (2011)
Belgium, 29 min
French, Dutch & English spoken, English subtitles

Koen Theys, The Dynamite Show (2004)
Belgium, 8 min
no dialogue, no subtitles

Esther Johnson, Liberation Radio (2021)
UK, Vietnam, 13 min
English, Vietnamese & Swedish spoken, English & Vietnamese subtitles

Isabelle Tollenaere, The Remembered Film (2018)
Belgium, 17 min
French, Dutch & English spoken, English subtitles

20/20 Vision is our monthly micro-cinema night at argos: a shifting line-up of moving images and video works, from shorts to features, from the archive and beyond. With only 20 chairs for 20 spectators, we gather around for a programme shaped around a topic or a filmmaker. We open the bar, ladle out hot soup, and invite you to sink into a collective viewing experience. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes provocative, always a little unexpected. The programme is designed to spark conversations or maybe even disagreements.

In collaboration with kortfilm.be, an essay will be published on each of the subjects of the 20/20 Vision screenings this fall and winter.