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DE KUNSTENAARS VLAKBIJ / LES ARTISTES À CÔTÉ
Jan Vromman“De Kunstenaars Vlakbij” (“The artists nearby”) is a series of portraits of unknown artists, produced on the occasion of the exhibition “De Eerste Trede” (“The First Stile”) at Argos Centre for Art & Media (2003). The starting point of this film was the wonderment about the basic idea that so many people are occupied with art in a serious manner...
JAMES ENSOR IN OOSTENDE CA 1920
Guillaume BijlThe highly individual and visionary work of James Ensor (1860-1949), familiar for its masquerades, carnival scenes and grotesque caricatures, is not easily categorized under any modern genre. Ensor had close ties with Ostend, where he was born and continued to live, and it was the source of inspiration for many of his works...
DE VERGEETPUT
Harald Thys - Jos De Gruyter'De Vergeetput’ is an observation of the vast basement compound of the arts centre De Singel in Antwerp, made at the instigation of curator Moritz Küng for the exhibition ‘Urban Dramas’. This exhibition displayed works in which the city was approached as a vehicle for fictitious as well as realistic stories...
HERE, HIS 這裡, 他的
Shelly SilverThe work of Shelly Silver (1957) bridges the contested territories between public and private, narrative and documentary, and increasingly in recent years, the watcher and the watched...
DIALOGUE AVEC L'INVISIBLE
Jacques LennepThe artist wears an odd pair of glasses with which apparently he can see invisible things. Because of how Lennep moves his hands, the viewer can infer that he sees a woman....
WALKER, LE PRÉ CATELAN
Thomas Bernardet - Florent MulotThis film tries to apprehend the Pré Catelan, built on a main avenue in Toulouse in the 1970s. It is built around an inner courtyard originally designed to be full of life, but whose shops have closed one after the other. Two figures stroll through it without ever meeting each other, and cast a circumspect gaze on this architecture they will ultimately fail to appropriate....
THE WAVE
Sarah Vanagt - Katrien VermeireIn "The Wave" the archaeological gaze of the viewer is set in motion: a mass grave from the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) opens and closes itself. In 2011 we placed a camera above the spot where nine victims were buried after their execution by Franco’s supporters in June 1939...
RUNNING AROUND
Ria PacquéeIn this absurdist take on an 'Urban Trail' Ria Pacquée drifts through her hometown Antwerp while intermittently encircling various objects and structures she encounters. A run down kiosk, an artificial hill with a playground slide, a battered metal curb, a hexagonal flowerpot, a concrete ping pong table; all of which would easily disappear in the dense fabric of the urban environment...
