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HAUT LES COEURS
Lucile Desamory“The Brain is wider than the Sky”. This sentence by Emily Dickinson appears, as magically written by an invisible hand in the film by Lucile Desamory Haut les Coeurs. The heroine walks in the snow, arrives home and falls asleep (or maybe duplicates herself) on the sofa. Follows a wandering through a fantastic landscape, through giant swans and dinosaurs...
LUNDI DE PÂQUES
Emilio López-MencheroThe Trying to be … series by Emilio López-Menchero is a series of photographs and video-performances where the artist embodies a mythical figures. Among them, López-Menchero already tried to be Ramirez Sanchez alias "Carlos", Yasser Arafat, James Ensor, Bin Laden, Frida Kalho, Rasputin or even Rrose Sélavy...
INVITATION TO THE VOYAGE / L'INVITATION AU VOYAGE
Meggy RustamovaMeggy Rustamova’s film Invitation to the voyage / L’invitation au voyage (2014), which derives its title from a poem by Baudelaire, is a suggestive examination of the potential of photography to tell stories (or history) and to let fact and fiction move closer together until the fuzziness of the pixels creating each photo has also taken hold of the narrative...
Storyteller, Nicolas Provost, 2010
STORYTELLER
Nicolas Provost’Storyteller’ takes found stock footage of the cosmopolitan skyline, recomposing and mirroring the images to create a slick artificiality reminiscent of science fiction. At first glance, the viewer might think of space ships floating slowly through the universe, but quickly ’Storyteller’ reveals its source: images of downtown Las Vegas shot from a helicopter...
BESMETTE STAD
Johan GrimonprezBesmette Stad TV broadcast, Belgium, 1993, 18min, restored in 2007 directed by Johan Grimonprez with Paul Garrin, Meg Stuart, Alison Murray & Pascal Baes produced by Ziggurat, Belgian TV BRT / TV1 with the support of Jan van Eyck Academy 01. Video-Guerrilleros fragment from 'Man with a Video Camera' by Paul Garrin, 2min Topic II by Pascal Baes, fragment 1 02...
UNCERTAIN MENTAL IDENTY(IES)
Messieurs DelmotteIn this compilation of short works, the dandy Messieurs Delmotte delivers a mild critique on the art world by nodding to famous paintings and performances / actions of the twentieth century. At the same time, he also slashes and destroys unknown paintings such as a shoddy still life of flowers...
MOTION FOR STOCKHAUSEN
Anouk De ClercqConceived originally as a backdrop projection for the dance performance Chorée, this video is in itself a study on choreography. The image source is the oldest Belgian film footage, Film Médicaux (1904), shot by Arthur Van Gehuchten, Belgian anatomist, neurologist and pioneer of clinical cinematography. The movements of hysterical patients are carefully reframed in a dignifying way...
LE JEUNE ARTISTE BOUFFE
Claude Degueldre"It’s delicious to devour those greasy substances that we have to absorb. We all know how wonderful it is to nourish oneself with culture, to drench oneself in knowledge and make a meal of it. So, licking my lips upon seeing so much to eat and drink, I put myself forward as young devouring artist." (Claude Degueldre)...
