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INTERFÉRENCES ET VARIATIONS
Marie José BurkiFor this video, I had quite a simple idea: to confront seeing and listening, audio and video, image and voice. First I wrote two fragments. In the final edit, one of them opens the video and the other one closes it. Then I collected fragments of texts, notes and quotations, between which I established a dialogue...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 61. SPARKY
Steve ReinkeThe original Apollo moon landings were not televised live. Instead a 17 second delay was instituted....
A Message from Space in my Backyard, 2008-2009, Krassimir Terizev © the artist
A MESSAGE FROM SPACE IN MY BACKYARD
Krassimir Terziev"It is far from rational from the perspective of single human life to imagine that a piece of space shuttle, after being launched some 20 years ago, would hit a woman in her backyard in California, or a piece of derelict Russian satellite, after orbiting the earth for a several decades, would reach its final destination in the desert of Australia in front of local shepherds...
GRIMOIRE MAGNÉTIQUE
Joëlle de La CasinièreGrimoire Magnétique is the first musical “video poème” by de La Casinière, in which painting, writing and music are synchronically arranged, according to the rhythm of a deliberate composition...
HISTOIRE D'UN CORPS
Jacques LennepA short conceptual work by this Belgian pioneering video artist about corporality and memory. The artist is in a room that resembles the lavatory of a school of gym. He takes off his suit and a female voice-over starts to sum up some of his physical problems and ailments: scars on the knee, a curvature of the spine due to scoliosis, angiomas...
DRIE BLINDE MUIZEN
Jef CornelisA report on three collectors of contemporary art: Martin Visser, Frits Becht and Hubert Peeters. They talk about their buying policy, how they built up their collections and their favourite works and artists. Original broadcast date: 18/06/1968 Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Titles...
REVOLVER
Jacques Louis NystAs in 'La mort d’une poule’, sound plays a key role in 'Revolver’. A real hand confronts a sculpted one. It imitates its gesture, proposes new ones. Then what we have interpreted so far as a human hand suddenly turns into a revolver....
WINTER PRAYERS
Jan Dietvorst - Roy VillevoyeIs every collector necessarily a murderer? Jean-Paul de Vries, the film’s protagonist, is quite the opposite of a killer. He may not exactly be the one who wakes the dead - but he does try to show that there are other ways to live and deal with life, rather than ‘protect oneself against death’...
NAM JUNE PAIK
Stefaan DecostereNam June Paik was the instigator of the Fluxus movement, in Germany in the early sixties. In 1963 Paik first exhibited TV sets of which the screens showed distorted images. The TV screens reigned supreme. Paik moved to New York and was soon proclaimed the "George Washington of the video art"’...
