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Biscuter, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
BISCUTER
Angel VergaraArchive images depict a race between little cars in the streets of Castelló. They are doing laps in the city. The Biscuter used to have a two-stroke engine and is a striking piece of heritage dating from Franco’s Spain in the fifties. The images function as central starting point in the exhibition, which is also considered a kind of circuit....
ASTROLOGY OF A FRIDAY
Teresa CosThe film was shot in the General Assembly Room of the Province of Limburg’s Government Building, where on the 7th of February 1992 the signing ceremony of the Treaty on European Union (the Maastricht Treaty) took place...
THE STEWARTS HAVE A PARTY
Hans Op de BeeckThe Stewarts are a carefully cast fictitious family. The various members appear and disappear in an empty white room, like life-sized marionettes dressed in white. As is customary in the sub-genre of marionette theatre, they are manipulated by black-clothed puppeteers who are part of the set entourage: production assistants, a makeup girl and a hair stylist...
OPEN BOOK
Vito AcconciAcconci’s unnaturally wide-open mouth is filmed in extreme close-up, which puts the viewer uncomfortably close to the artist. Wrestling to keep his mouth open, his words are directed at the viewer. His incomprehensible voice forms an invitation: “I’m not closed, I’m open. Come in... I’ll accept you, I won’t shut down, I won’t shut you out.....
THE KINGDOM
Pieter GeenenThe Kingdom is a series of nine videos portraying today's North American urban landscape by looking at the large Belgian community living in the Canadian tobacco belt. During 20th century this region was subject to heavy European immigration, attracting many Flemish immigrants in particular who settled as tobacco farmers...
100 JAAR / 100 ANS
Jan VrommanA simple but utterly moving ‘in memorium’ for 100 years of cinema as wel as 100 years of exploitation of the working class. In 1995, it was exactly hundred years ago that the Frères Lumière made their first film, ‘Workers Leaving the Factory’: the birth of cinema...
PANIQUE AU VILLAGE, ÉPISODE 14 : COBOY ET INDIEN FONT DU CAMPING
Stéphane Aubier - Vincent PatarAs the title says, Cowboy and Indian go out camping. They find the perfect spot on top of a hill. They put up the tent, and install their mattresses and barbecue, but then Cowboy does something really stupid: his gun accidentally goes off and he shoots a hole in his air mattress. The two then decide to gather wood and go hunting...
ROCKY TIGER
Claude Delfosse - Jacques CharlierCharlier recorded this video in collaboration with Claude Delfosse. In an office they interview an employee, who worked with Charlier for eight years at the STP. The man expresses his wish to be a musician. To do Charlier a favor, he performs together with his band and sings a song by Elvis Presley....
untitled part 2: beauty and the east, Jayce Salloum, 1999-2003 © the artist & producer
UNTITLED PART 2: BEAUTY AND THE EAST
Jayce SalloumPart 2 in a series of attempts at concretizing the notion of interstitiality, this videotape addresses issues of nationalism & the nation state, polarities of time, alienation, the refusal & construction of political identities, ethno-fascism, the body as object & metaphor, agents, monsters & abjectness, subjective affinities, and objective trusts...
A.U.B. / S.V.P.
Emilio López-MencheroIn his early work a.u.b. / s.v.p., Emilio López-Menchero positioned the camera next to the passport control gates at Brussels National Airport. The video is an observation of the flow of people through the gates and their similar, or better said almost identical, behaviours when they face the authorities who mechanically checks the documents and let them go further...
