argos tv brings new and old works from the soɓɹɐ collection to your personal screen. Each first Thursday of the month, a new film runs on our website during the whole month, entirely free. The film is also shown on the window display at Koopliedenstraat 62 Rue des Commerçants (next to the rile* entrance). Looking for more art videos? Feel free to browse our entire catalogue in our library.

Ursula Biemann, X-Mission (2008)

X-Mission is a video essay on the extra-territorial status of Palestinian camps and its inhabitants. Fused with a retro-futuristic vibe and intensely discursive, it combines contemplation and theoretical criticism. The 40 minute video puts the camps at the crossroads of the different discourses – legal, symbolic, urban, mythological, historical – that attempt to articulate the highly compressed space. The narration relies on a series of interviews with people explicitly labelled as experts — The Lawyer, The Architect, The Journalist, The Anthropologist, The Historian, The Refugee — interspersed with layered images derived from both gleaned and self-recorded sources.