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TILAPIA
Crispin YanisiA boy who tries to get in touch with his culture through a specific fish and learn more about its history but is faced with the fact that he does not master his mother tongue. ...
Lettre verte à Hervé Brouhon, 1989, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
LETTRE VERTE À HERVÉ BROUHON
Angel VergaraThe movie is part of an installation set up in 1989 in the Centre for Fine Arts for the exhibition ’Incident de Parcours’, organised by the Fondation de la Tapisserie in Tournai. The installation was projected onto a canvas painted green, and a letter by Hervé Brouhon was also displayed as well, his response to Vergara’s request to put a cow in Brussels Park and paint it...
GENT, 10 JUNI 1989, VOOR GERALDINE NEREA
Jan VrommanIn this video Vromman shows us virtuoso how a “plan séquence” is capable of exploring a given spatial arrangement notably an abandoned church in Ghent. It is as though the camera possesses a will of its own, or, more appropriately, as it became itself a dancer within the given space...
TOUCH
Shelly SilverA man returns, after fifty years, to Chinatown to care for his dying mother. He is a librarian, a cataloguer and recorder, a gay man, a watcher, an impersonator. He passes his time collecting images - his witnesses and collaborators. Sitting in the dark, we look at them and share his cloak of invisibility, both a benefit and a curse. TOUCH is an essay narrated from one man's point of view...
THE CLOWN AND THE HOLE
Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle NystThe theme of this video is the observation of a 'chantoir’, a popular expression designating a water hole in a prairie of which the terrain is composed of limestone. The action of the water on the lime contributes to the formation of holes of varying depths. The story presents a character that wonders about the origin of the hole and tries to communicate with it by playing the trumpet....
CHERRY BLOSSOMS
An van. DienderenCarly is working late at night in one of the many translation booths in a dark plenary hall of the European Parliament. It is the only place worldwide where everyday work is translated in 23 languages. Carly exerts to translate a documentary about Japanese subculture. Without specific interest for the theme she translates monotonically from the Japanese...
A FLUXUS ELEGY
Ben PattersonOne-sided LP in an edition of 345 copies. "The new Ben Patterson piece, issued on Alga Marghen’s VocSon series, is based on the basic principles of the polyphonic music of the Bantu tribes of West and Central Africa...
DANIEL BUREN
Jef CornelisGeorges Adé (1936-1992) interviews the French artist Daniel Buren (°1938) at the occasion of his solo exhibition – simply entitled Buren (11 May - 5 June, 1971) – in front of the Wide White Space Gallery in Antwerp. As in his previous show with the same title (17 January - 6 February, 1969), Buren applied his renowned motif, namely the alternation of white and coloured 8...
LIAISONS DANGEREUSES
Charley CaseSymbols such as the Star of David, the Taijitu (the yin-yang sign) and the swastika pop up on the screen, alternating ever faster, with glowing colours illuminating their contours. Accompanied by repetitive string and deep bass-driven music, the images have a hypnotizing effect. The pace of their movement accelerates with the music until all symbols merge in one light-pulsing sphere....
UN ANGE PASSE
Marie André’Un ange passe’ is a vivid observation of the social and sexual economies of prostitution, an indelibly envisioned narrative set in the Veemarkt harbor quarter of Antwerp. Andre tells the story of the prostitute Anita, who displays herself in a "show window" on the square and engages in a self-deceptive love for her abusive pimp...
