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AMERICA'S ARMY
Jos De GruyterAs the video ‘America’s Army’ takes off we see how two brothers, Christoffel and Ryan, transport home their recently acquired computer. They spend the rest of the time totally isolated from the world in their attic, playing ‘America’s Army’, a computer game in which the player is recruited by the Special Forces of the American army...
Co-Op City, Jordi Colomer, 2010. Courtesy the Artist
CO-OP CITY
Jordi ColomerCo-op City, a 40-tower area built in the seventies in the middle of the Bronx. Today, as shown in the first film, none of its 50,000 inhabitants seems to ride the traffic ways, which are strangely devoted to the routes of delivery men. (www.jordicolomer.com)...
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...
HET LEEG
Didier Volckaert"Don Quichote never really existed. However, in La Mancha, Spain, you can still find his traces. I once read in a travel guide that ‘there is absolutely nothing to be seen in this area of Spain’. My camera captured that ‘absolutely nothing’ and I took it home. Made on S8 and blown up to 16mm." (Source: Didier Volckaert)...
Vidéocartographies: Aïda, Palestine, Till Roeskens, 2009 © the artist & producer
VIDÉOCARTOGRAPHIES: AÏDA, PALESTINE
Till RoeskensIn ’Vidéocartographies: Aïda, Palestine’ Roeskens asks several inhabitants of the Palestinian refugee camp Aïda to draw him a map. The camera records the inverse of these scribbles, showing the marks of the black pen through the white paper...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 86. SEVENTEEN DESCRIPTIONS
Steve ReinkeThe guy in the shorts has never had the area between his testicles and anus licked....
La banque, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
BANQUE
Angel Vergara’Banque’ is a montage of historical images of Belgian banking house and media excerpts of the Fortis-crisis that sweept across Belgium and the Netherlands in 2008 and 2009. Angel Vergara sketches historical and contemporary cross-references between the artistic and financial worlds in Belgium...
LES 3 MARIE
Charley CaseA painting on which a woman is depicted breastfeeding a child. The image refers to the well known iconographical pose of the Holy Mary holding Jesus. The gently moving image of a real woman breastfeeding her child appears in this painting, as a second layer. Slowly it slides to the foreground. The second painting is that of Mary as a young girl...
ERIC ET L'OISEAU BLEU
Jean-Claude RigaEric and his friends from l’Oiseau Bleu, an institution for handicapped children, can’t talk. They look around them, they touch, they caress, they breath. This report for Canal Emploi starts off with a long shot of Eric asleep. Images of his life within the institution, his friends, visits to the supermarket or the swimming pool, scroll one after the other, just as he sleeps...
140 BALLETJES
Luc CoeckelberghsHundred-and-forty white balls are floating in a hall. Attached to the ceiling with strings of different lengths, from low to high, they are hanging motionless in space. The camera records their presence from across the room, but also from above and from the side. Passing by slowly, the camera is suggesting movement. The balls interact with the patterns on the floor and the walls...
