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FOSSILIZATION
Kurt D'HaeseleerThe video ‘Fossilization’ was produced as part of the ‘Memory Lane’ project, commissioned in 2005 by the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The traditional idea of soundtracks as translation and extension of moving images was reversed for the occasion: five video makers were requested to produce a work based on a composition by David Shea...
SUICIDE
Shelly Silver"suicide is a feature-length fiction of a woman’s voyage through the malls, airports and train stations of Asia, Europe and Central America, chronicling her fiercely hopeful and desperate search for a reason to continue living...
9+1 POLAROID BLACK & WHITE PICTURES
Danny MatthysThe spatial interaction, arrived at through the closed video circuit of video camera 1 & 2 in relation to video monitor 1 & 2, is stressed by the destruction of this perception, through the use of polaroids (9 polaroids equals the surface of 1 monitor), in order to arrive at a new perception (= time), registered on tape (= registration), by video camera 3 and microphone (= synchronous regi...
SCULPTURE HOUSE
Aglaia KonradIn the second half of the 1960s, the Belgian architect Jacques Gillet started the construction of the 'Sculpture House Project' (1967-1968), a private dwelling in the surroundings of Liège, Belgium. A synthesis of structure and form, the architect worked together with the sculptor Félix Roulin and the engineer René Greisch...
OUAF OUAF
Hänzel & GretzelAn energetic scratched music video made for the French combo Double Nelson. Welcome to a great nonsense party (dogs and ducks allowed)....
CONDUCTOR
Anouk De ClercqA lightning conductor appears as a musical conductor for the cloud cover. At the core of an increasingly threatening blaze of fire and a whistling wind, a minuscule light has final call, until the violence of heaven discharges abruptly and the lightning conductor throws it all off-screen...
WAAROVER MEN NIET SPREEKT 2: ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Jef CornelisThis documentary, based on a scenario by Geert Bekaert, is an attack on the alienation induced by modern architecture and town-planning. In the monotonous suburbs, life dies away and boredom rules. The city centres are depopulated and dead. The community spirit is not stressed and the individual does not find expression...
COFFEE
Hans Op de BeeckThe fixed camera on table-height shows a couple as through a window: immobile and seated on opposite sides of a table behind a cup of coffee. There is no contact between them; they just seem to ignore each other in a painful and deafening silence. No word is uttered. In the background the noise of coffee machines and cutlery almost drowns out silly muzak...
VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): L'AILE EN CAGE
Jacques LennepWe see the artist sitting in a garden watching a birdcage. Inside there is no bird however, but only a wing of a black bird. With this registration the artist brings homage to the surrealist painter René Magritte....
