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SEA OF TRANQUILLITY
Hans Op de BeeckThe medium-length film ’Sea of Tranquillity’ is a combination of live video recordings of actors and digitally-generated 3D environments in which the viewer makes a night-time visit to a mysterious, mythical cruise liner, the ’Sea of Tranquillity’...
POEME-PARTITION X
Bernard Heidsieck"Poème-Partition X" was created by Bernard Heidsieck during 1960 and recorded in October the same year. A few excerpts of the 1st and 4th movements were performed on November 22nd, 1960 at the Quatre Saisons Gallery in Paris, during the Festival of Avant-Garde Art...
RAPT & HAPPY
Emily Vey Duke - Cooper Battersby’Rapt & Happy’ reminds of a diary, secretly enjoyed but having been let lying around by Vey Duke herself, waiting for it to be found...
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE HOLY BLOOD
Koen TheysThe performers in this video are a group of naively dressed up biblical characters, taking part in one of Flanders’ processions of The Holy Blood. Theys captured the footage during a performance he organized in the Brussels art space ETABLISSEMENT D’EN FACE...
WHITE LADY
Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle NystA videodance inspired by David Lynch’s 'The Elephant Man'. Though not clearly obvious in the piece, Nyst presents five tableaux that recall John Merrick’s mother’s life. The piece, openly Romantic and dramatic, flirts with the border of kitsch...
Die unbezähmbare Leni Peickert, Alexander Kluge, 1970. copyright
DIE UNBEZÄHMBARE LENI PEICKERT
Alexander KlugeAs Adorno stated: "The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us". This quote can introduce this half-hour sequel to Alexander Kluge's second feature film, Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: ratlos. The circus director Leni Peickert continues to pursue her activities. Circus in winter. Bitter times...
GENTLEMEN TROUBLES
Messieurs DelmotteThis video was realized for the performance 'Problem Child' in 2013. Messieurs Delmotte worked together with Mark Bombastik as a performer and Jessica Broscheit for the realisation, which resulted in a series of performances that were acted out in public space in and around Hamburg, Germany...
Manuela, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
MANUELA
Angel VergaraManuela Trasobares (1962) lives in the area of Castelló. She is one of the first transsexuals in Spain and has already been the subject of many scandals. She is shown sculpturing a crucified Christ, whose nudity caused widespread outrage. With a brush, Angel Vergara delineates her cinematic image, and that of the sculpture...
LE PLEIN DU VIDE
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La CasinièreThe Beaubourg neighbourhood in Paris is completely abandoned by its inhabitants. Has the plague struck? Perhaps we are quite simply in the month of August, when Parisians have all gone on holiday? A void...
