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ERNA LENDVAI-DIRCKSEN. FLANDERN. DAS GERMANISCHE VOLKSGESICHT
Gorik LindemansGorik Lindemans is obsessed with books, or rather with looking at books. In his video he guides us through this fascinating picture-book ‘Flandren. Das Germanische Volksgesicht’, with splendid photographs of Flemish farmers and landscapes from the early forties by Erna Lendvai-Dircksen...
ABOUT THE ANTICAPITALIST CARNIVAL
Charley CaseTo work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection. Raoul Vaneigem About the Anticapitalistic Carnival illustrates the importance of the celebration in (r)evolutionary thinking...
Shelly Silver, SOUTHSIDE, 1978 © the artist
ENCORE LE CRAPAUD
Hänzel & GretzelThis sequel of Le Vieux Crapaud follows the same theme of the Christ as a symbolic figure for the catholics prominency in our culture. Hänzel & Gretzel employes the same techniques and sets of images as a way to not forget about this....
THE PHILOSOPHER OF PHOTOGRAPHY VILÉM FLUSSER
Miklós Peternák - András SólyomPossibly the last interview of the media philosopher Vilém Flusser’s life to the crew of Hungarian television’s FRIZ-productions. His achievements gained international prominence in the late 1970’s. His approach to the theory of mechanical images broke with all earlier approaches. He saw in these images the first examples of the post-historical era...
MADE IN ITALY
Fabio WuytackThe discovery of the film ’Train sortant d’un tunnel’, made by the Lumière brothers in 1897 in the Tuscan city of Carrara, constitutes Fabio Wuytack’s starting point for a discovery of his own roots. This quest for an overlooked piece of history takes him closer to home than he might ever have imagined...
CONCRETE & SAMPLES III: CARRARA
Aglaia KonradConcrete & Samples I, II, III is a series of 16mm films on sculptural architecture. What the buildings and site in all films have in common is the idea of ‘architecture as sculpture’ and a very distinct use of concrete that seem to depart from the free form of the whole in a sculptural manner...
KITSCH GILLO DORFLES
Jef CornelisThe opening shot of this short film from the series Zoeklicht (Search light) shows the cover of the book Kitsch - An anthology of bad taste (first published in Italian in 1968, translated in English in 1970) by the Italian art critic, painter and philosopher Gillo Dorfles (°1910)...
