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BORDER
Hans Op de Beeck’Border’ is projected life-size and opens with the image of a number of people sitting down in an oppressively small, square space. We can hear them whispering, sighing, coughing. Then a life-size x-ray image slowly appears over the total surrounding of this environment, the image of a truck crammed with goods...
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Peter DownsbroughWith his videos Downsbrough creates natural portraits of urban environments. Everyday surroundings are observed, dissected and transformed into architectural illustrations, with a proper sense of order and chaos. In long, steady shots and travellings space is reduced and abstracted into minimalist constructions, simultaneously they assume identifiability...
FABRICA/BRIGHTON DAY 6
Claude CattelainDoing a video each day. Day 6: pulling a heavy wooden piece on the shore until it sails off....
LES SOEURS LUMIÈRE
Karen VanderborghtA digital short with primitive cinema looks about guardian angels, UFO’s, the lighting of the Belgian motorways and an un-erasable penfriendship...
SCRUB SOLO 1: SOLONELINESS
Antonin De BemelsScrub Solo 1: ’Soloneliness’ is the first film experiment between Antonin De Bemels and choreographer Bud Blumenthal. A dancer facing a mirror, in a fixed frame, tries to catch his own reflection, the body incessantly turning round on itself. At times there is no more than an abstraction of white light, while at others his hand seems to pass through the mirror...
THE SWANS
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte lures swans with pieces of bread and then throws tomato sauce at them from a bucket. This work is part of the series What's Done, Evil's Done / Ce Qui est Fait, le Mal est Fait...
PRO TESTING
Eran Schaerf - Eva MeyerPro Testing (2010) consists largely of a circular panning shot from the center of a circle of protesters holding up placards. Most of these show photos of a demonstration in favor of the “Gaza Aid Flotilla” that was stopped by the Israeli Navy...
CONTAINER 10: EXOTISMEN
Jef CornelisA conversation about the predominantly Western fascination with exotic cultures. According to Herman Pollig, who made a number of exhibitions about exoticism under the header “Exotic worlds, European fantasies”, exoticism gets in the way of an objective understanding of alien cultures...
THE SPINNING WHEEL
Harald Thys - Jos De GruyterHarald Thys and Jos de Gruyter make videos in their own typical style. Man is hardly a pawn in a game of chess, a tragicomic puppet functioning in a system which surpasses him. The style is minimalist, the characters are determined by the structure and they are limited in space, language and movement...
