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BEELDENDE KUNST IN BELGIË, 1986

Jef Cornelis - Freddy Coppens
Originally broadcast on March 16th 1986, the programme Beeldende kunst in België, 1986 (Visual Art in Belgium, 1986) is a recording of a panel discussion that took place in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp...

THE STONES

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte slides, rolls, and tumbles around in a large heap of rocks. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

LE GUIDE DU PARC

Sven Augustijnen
An unusual visit of the Parc Royal in Brussels. The guide in this fake documentary introduces you to the habits of the park’s gay scene, taking his time; slowly making you discover the hundred details of the park’s ‘social life’...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 93. MANIFESTATIONS/JOUISSANCE

Steve Reinke
After a sharp blow to the head, one sometimes gains extraordinary powers. I’ve lately been struck by the gift of superior critical abilities in analyzing Hollywood films....

LETTRE OUVERTE

Jacques Louis Nyst
A short film in which the camera films a photograph of a nude woman on a table in a living-room. The voice-over describes, in French and English, how an avarage day in her life looks like....

RICHTINGEN

Philippe Van Snick
In the bright, blue sky airplanes have left the traces of their engines, with lines of white clouds as result. They are the minimalist painters of the sky. Some lines are very visible, while others are already fading away....

APHASIA

Jelena Jureša
Aphasia focuses on the absurdity that arises from the collective silence surrounding crime and the compartmentalisation of historical events. In medical vocabulary ‘aphasia’ refers to the sufferer’s difficulty in finding words or losing the ability to speak...

POINT AND SHOOT

Esther Johnson
A short animation in an ongoing series of formal experiments that take instruction procedures and mechanical apparatus manuals as source material. Quick-cutting juxtapositions explore photographic instructions from SLR and Bolex manuals for taking the perfect picture and sequence in time...

GENOCIDES

Hänzel & Gretzel
An ethnic conflict in Rwanda and Burundi results in a genocide...

PATRIA (VIVE LE ROI! VIVE LA RÉPUBLIQUE!)

Koen Theys
Video installation for 1 projector and 1 flat screenmonitor. In his book ‘The End of History and the Last Man’, the American philosopher Francis Fukuyama defends the idea that the end of history is reached. All the big ideologies of the 20th century have come to an end, he says, and they have made place for a post-ideological, neo-liberal pragmatism...