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Peter DownsbroughET[- opens with a silent black-and-white close-up of a vertical rod shuttling back and forth across a mechanical loom. The short sequence could be mistaken for footage from an early 20th-century propaganda film. Cut sharply to the next scene, also in black and white and taken from a fixed position but unmistakably contemporary...
THE RESIDENTS
Vincent MeessenBarry meets Lucy. They’re both artists living in Europe. He’s an American, she wants to be one. He has no visa, she wants dual nationality. There are no amorous feelings between them, just a preoccupation with hospitality, citizenship and art...
BLENDER
Hans Op de BeeckThe video opens with a view of a deserted carousel. After a pause, the carousel slowly begins to turn, spinning faster and faster, the horses and the carriages blending into a single image, which blurs and disappears as the speed increases. As the speed decreases, the image of the carousel reappears and the fairground ride comes to a standstill. (Source: www.hansopdebeeck.com)...
HOMMAGE À … IV
Lili DujourieThe five videos of Hommage à … deal with the same theme as repetition-in-difference, as a continual tracing and retracing, of the figure fold and unfold in the visual field. Everything is centred on the concept of self-observation and an exploration of the body. Dujourie develops a recurrent strategy of her work: drawing attention to the space beyond the visual field...
L'IMAGE
Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle NystAn image has disappeared at Presseux Village: under a garden shelter, a piece of landscape is missing from the décor. The media and scientists from the whole world ponder over this disappearance. Will our heroes manage to get to the bottom of this mystery?...
A Lecture on Schizophonia, Erik Bünger, 2009 © the artist & producer
A LECTURE ON SCHIZOPHONIA
Erik BüngerRecordings of sound and image are all-pervasive in the modern world, and sometimes seem to have a life of their own. Erik Bünger’s ’lecture’ – a narrative voiced over a series of images, clips and quotations – explores what happens when the recording and the original source become separated or confused...
La révolution, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
LA RÉVOLUTION
Angel VergaraHistorical impressions of the Belgian Revolution are combined with images of present day strikes, with excerpts from interviews with the French philosopher Alain Badiou and Belgian politicians, among others, and with the artist’s early performances (see Films Actions, 1987-1989)...
OJO GUAREÑA
Edurne RubioIn the film OJO GUAREÑA we join a group of speleologists that enter the gigantic cave of the same name in Burgos, Spain. We barely notice the prehistoric traces and the contours of the spaces, but we can hear all the better: drops of water that, for ages, have been recreating the shape of the cave and continue to do so to date, as well as echoes of human footsteps...
CONTAINER 08: OVER DON JUAN
Jef CornelisA discussion on the figure and myth of Don Juan, which originates in three different sources: the original version by Tirso de Molina from 1630, the version by Molière from 1665, and the libretto and opera by Mozart and da Ponte from 1787. Even among these versions there are considerable variants regarding the characters, the personalities, intrigues and endings...
