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TABLEAU AVEC CHUTES : VOYAGE DANS UN TABLEAU DE PIETER BRUEGHEL "PAYSAGE AVEC LA CHUTE D'ICARE", PEINT VERS 1555 QUELQUE PART EN BELGIQUE
Claudio PazienzaA journey full of irony, and nevertheless serious, through a painting by Brueghel (Landscape with the Fall of Icarus), through a country (Belgium) and through the diary of the author. Shot between June and November 1996, between the official abolition of the death penalty and the White March, the film keeps asking the same question: "what does it mean to watch?"....
CLAQUETTES
Emilio López-MencheroClaquettes is a short video where the artist is exercising in the tap dancing. The fix camera records his performance, but it focuses on his naked body. Between time registration and memory of his Spanish origin, the video is a short experimentation with the medium....
DEAR LORDE
Cooper Battersby - Emily Vey DukeBone collector Maxine Rose, a 14 year old teenage girl, is looking for validation from her heroes, amongst them the primatologist Jane Goodall, bishop Desmond Tutu and the New Zealand teen pop Star Lorde. Offering them a gift of language, Maxine Rose stands for the desire to be visible and understood, not unlike the desire of an artist...
DE 5DE KRACHT (MAYBE THIS TIME I WIN)
Anne-Mie Van KerckhovenA 15-minute animation in which keywords of an exposé on knowledge representation in the field of Artificial Intelligence are combined with the faces of 15 heart disease patients. The colours on the patients’ faces indicate which kind of disease the person suffers of...
THE WORLDWIDE WEB OF SORROWS
Koen TheysThe video contains a few hundred excerpts of clips found on YouTube, showing women trying to grab the attention of the viewer by crying in front of their webcam, sitting alone in their apartment. Some of them are silently sobbing, while others are loudly crying out their despair...
HOW PHOTOGRAPHS ARE STORED IN THE BRAIN
Steve Reinke‘How Photographs Are Stored in the Brain’ assembles an archive of photographs and phonograph recordings discovered in an empty house. They are not my photographs or (presumably) your photographs, so they stand in for the idea of a family archive. A ruthless animation, sentimental and quietly mocking, yet perhaps still able to evoke sadness and longing....
LAURIEN, SEPTEMBER 2001
Manon de BoerFrom her dozens of portraits, Manon de Boer chose two, ‘Robert, June 1996’ and ‘Laurien, March 1996’, which she would - and still does - portray over an over again: the same individuals, in the same position, and within the same visual frame...
Puerto y barco, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
PUERTO Y BARCO
Angel VergaraThe seaside and the entrance of Castelló’s harbor are shown. While Vergara is delineating the cinematic image with a brush, a ship approaches the harbor. Here, Vergara uses different types of brushes. While the ship is passing by, the camera turns with the ship in the direction of the harbour itself...
VARKENSPEST / PESTE PORCINE
Jan VrommanFor several times the native village of the video maker, Wingene, was an epicentre of swine fever. Shaken by the mass destruction of pigs the artist made a poetical videogram with some self-made images and images from the TV news. Homage to the swines who fell on the sacrificial altars of profit seeking....
FORMER EAST / FORMER WEST
Shelly Silver"Made up of hundreds of street interviews done in Berlin two years after the Reunification, Former East/Former West is a vital, surprisingly open, and at times disturbing documentary about what it means to be German at this particular moment in history. For forty-five years, residents of this divided city lived radically different lives, both in terms of ideology and everyday experience...
