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LE SPECTATEUR
Michel LorandThe Medea installation is made up of a large, square table with four video monitors. A single actor or actress is seen on three of the four monitors, from the waist up and frontal. The fourth monitor shows only text. The starting point is a short prose piece written by Lorand about a young woman intending to kill her two children after the end of her relationship with their father...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 48. ARTIFACT
Steve ReinkeThese images are from a film the CBC made in the early seventies called "The Children of Sri Lanka"....
THÉRÉSA PLANE
Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle Nyst'Thérésa Plane’ is an itinerary in the form of an infinity symbol shaped loop. At its point of intersection a frog who thinks that everything is pretty and Thérésa whose principle activity is to glide, meet. A love story between the frog and Thérésa ensues. All would have gone quite well, were it not for the intervention of destiny...
FABRICA/BRIGHTON DAY 4
Claude CattelainDoing a video each day. Day 4: sweeping away the sea from the pier....
THE GIRL WHO NEVER WAS
Erik BüngerThe Girl Who Never Was is the third and final part in a trilogy began with A Lecture on Schizophonia and continued in The Third Man. In 2008 an American researcher rediscovers the lost traces of the first recorded voice ever: the 148-old voice of a little girl singing the French lullaby ‘Au Clair de la Lune’...
CASA
Michel François‘CASA’ is an extensive collage of film fragments, capturing numerous subjects and sensations. The artist makes an appeal to the five senses and the four elements. Movement is also very central in ‘CASA’. It starts with waves overflowing a wall. The element water. A close-up of elbows rubbing a rough surface. Two hands are grabbing a face covered in clay. Touch...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 56. JIN'S DREAM
Steve ReinkeI dreamt that I went to art school and when I woke up - I mean, when I graduated - I got this job designing pornographic playing cards....
IDIOT'S BREW
Antonin De BemelsThe videos by Antonin de Bemels are - literally - attempts: explorations of the body and gestures, of rhythm and movement. He is fascinated by the importance of a single image and interweaves all kinds of visual stimuli in a complex associative network by means of the 'scrubbing' effect, the visual equivalent of auditive 'scratching'...
LE TOMBEAU DES NAINS
Jacques Louis NystIn 'Le tombeau des nains’ two pebbles are laid on the canvas-like white surface common to most of the Nyst’s videos of the time. Two fingers come along, and move about the pebbles, revealing the two black stains they were hiding. The fingers repeatedly attempt to move the stains as well, with no success...
