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DIE LEICHE IM BAYERISCHEM WALT
Harald Thys'The Body in the Bavarian Woods' tells the story of the happy life of a farmer and his cows. Each month the farmer takes three of his cows to the butcher in the village. The farmer lives a carefree life and is very proud of his cows. Then, one day, fate strikes and the cows become ill because the region is stricken by a lasting drought...
PRUEBAS
Ardélia IstarúIn 1982, accompanying my father to Paris, my Costa Rican mother sent a series of letters to her parents when she arrived in the French capital. Forty years later, I found these letters and revisit a story full of pain in order to better understand my own arrival on the continent....
CLAIR OBSCUR
André ColinetThis experimental film combines a lot of different stories to a confusing whole. The camera technique is kept simple and straightforward. The dominant story is that of a young woman trying to write. Out of pure frustration she isolates herself from her girlfriend. The female writer goes to a crazy writer for advice. He pretends to be writing, on a typewriter without pages...
Jean Spinette, 2003-2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
JEAN SPINETTE
Angel VergaraJean Spinette is asked about the meaning of artistic freedom in a municipality like Saint-Gilles. At the time of filming, he was the Department of Culture’s representative in the mayor’s office (by 2010 he has become the chairman of the local OCMW) and he is filmed in the Pierre Paulus park....
SLAVE UNIT
Cel Crabeels‘Slave unit’ is a notion which indicates the status of network equipment. In photography it denotes the power of flash installations; a distinction is always made between dominant and subjected. In the video by Cel Crabeels the idea is applied to a setting with two dancers, a director, the camera, video equipment, the stage and the audience...
J.H. THE ART SYSTEM
Angel Vergara’J.H. The Art System’ is an edited photo series of a performance by Vergara, disguised as Jan Hoet, when he was celebrated as a retiring director during the five-year anniversary celebrations of SMAK, the City Museum for Contemporary Arts in Ghent...
Inventur / Invocation. I have read ... , 2008, Ralo Mayer © the artist
INVENTUR / INVOCATION. I HAVE READ ...
Ralo MayerFrom science-fiction novels to scientific articles, wikipedia entries to bank statements, billboards to poetry, Mayer blends the personal with the impersonal. Pre-existing associations with the word ’read’ and the process of reading are questioned when the verb is combined with unexpected ’texts’ – concrete, a face, a body...
JEUX VIDÉOS
Franck Beaubois’Jeux Videos’ consists of 14 short sketches focussing on time, acceleration, deceleration and reversal of movement. The shorts are clever and pungent in their simplicity; the camera viewpoint remains static and the action is concise. Combining various editing techniques (including animation) these short performance-like miniatures get extra depth...
THE VASES
Messieurs DelmotteIn an idyllic green landscape, vases seem to be growing from the trees. Messieurs Delmotte however is up for destroying them. Simply shot with a fixed camera, this performance is as humorous as it is appaling at the very same time. This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 1...
