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FABRICA/BRIGHTON DAY 8
Claude CattelainDoing a video each day. Day 8: spreading a green tarpaulin on the sea....
DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Johan GrimonprezThe guideline in Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y is the unofficial chronicle of world-wide aeroplane hijacking. Its blending of archival footage and personal home movie imagery sets out to investigate the media politics of our contemporary catastrophe culture...
VIDÉO GRAFFITI MINABLE
Jacques LizèneA musical duo sings to Christmas day, the day all women are beautiful, in front of a mountain of garbage and TV monitors : “When you are a painter you’ve got to write bad songs, especially when you don’t really have any talent for that”....
DIALOGOS
Karen VanderborghtDialogos is a short video that moves about fiction and cinéma vérité. Shot in an interior set-up, the camera records the spotlights, the artist and other elements of the minimalistic scenography, but the camera mostly focuses on the absurd and impossible conversation between a man and a woman...
MOUNE Ô
Maxime Jean-Baptiste"I close my eyes. The crowd makes me smile, breaks my body, and that's the end". By presenting the festive events which escorted the projection of the film Jean Galmot aventurier by Alain Maline, where the father's filmmaker played a role, the images of Moune Ô reveal the survival of the colonial inheritance within a Western collective unconscious always marked of stereotypes...
ABRACADABRA
Lucile DesamoryThe first feature-length film by artist Lucile Desamory, ABRACADABRA brings together an array of characters set within a narrative suffused with mystery and intrigue. The film centers on a reporter named Damien, who after winning a Scrabble game is visited by a ghost. He follows her into the dark streets of Brussels until he reaches the closed gates of a big building...
LAGER GELEGEN WEILAND
Danny MatthysTroubled by the heavy equipment, a cameraman is filming a meadow lying low as he walks around, a slope on the left, barbed wire on the right. A second camera is recording from the centre. ...
Avant-garde citizens: Janneke’s story, 2007, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson © the artists
AVANT-GARDE CITIZENS: JANNEKE’S STORY
Libia Castro - Ólafur ÓlafssonWith families and holiday-makers passing her as she relates her tale, Janneke’s story seems out of place on a beach. Janneke is a Dutch activist who, after protesting against the treatment of interned immigrants, was herself imprisoned under the Immigration Act for refusing to present her name and passport...
SUN IN YOUR HEAD
Wolf Vostell'Sun in your Head' (1963, Fluxus Film Anthology, Fluxfilm no. 23) images' have been directly captured from a television screen with a film camera. The film upsets the canon of the experimental film which then prevailed. The film is neither personal nor abstract, but refers to something entirely impersonal like a television programme...
THEN AS
Peter DownsbroughTHEN AS was shot in Tours and Saint-Pierre-des-corps in central France with the assistance of a group of students from the Ecole supérieure d'Art et Design TALM-Tours. Peter had been invited to do an exhibition at the Galerie Mame in Tours by David Kidman, who teaches film making at the school...
