ARGOS Centre for Art and Media

Aphasia is an unsettling inquiry into the representation of violence and the violence of representation. This documentary gesture explores how collective crimes keep being repeated and reflects on social and political constellations, unfolding constructions behind nation-states and national identities.

On the walls of the local Belgian Club in Delhi, Ontario (Canada) hangs a banal painting portraying Saint Catherine's Square, a square in the heart of the Belgian capital of Brussels. Depicting this specific place the painting evokes the memory connected to it for the many Belgian immigrants in this particular Canadian region, which helps defining and enhancing the community's identity. In home the camera starts from the level of the video pixel, an extreme close-up of the painting, and slowly travels backwards revealing the texture of paint and finally the architecture of the space, the interior in which this exterior was placed.

Witold works in a bank during the day but at night, he is building an electro-psychic waves generator. When he tests it, he makes contact with the cannibal nurse and with aliens. This will change his life.

In a convent, the punishment by a sadistic nun of a few mischievous school girls takes an unexpected turn...