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PREHISTORICAL STILLS
Charley CaseCase follows the Brussels-based artist, performer and actor Dirk Hendrikx to his atelier where he performs ‘Prehistorical stills’, an intensive piece of body art involving earth and fire – but also sawdust, stones and a couple of nails. We witness how this singular artist makes ‘paintings’ from the positive imprint of his body....
Fragments, 1994, Shelly Silver © the artist
FRAGMENTS
Shelly Silver"Fragments is an ongoing series of short videotapes ranging in length from 6 seconds to two minutes. These tapes can be seen as small drawings or sketches, bringing together pieces of ideas, overheard conversation and glimpsed images. They can also be seen, because of their structure and length, as advertising that doesn’t sell anything." (Source: https://www.shellysilver.com)...
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - BABY-SITTING
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman’baby-sitting’ is one of the video clips of the ’Video à la chaîne’ series, in which the artists combine found footage with self-generated images. Images of a baby and of dolls that represent the mother and the father figures are combined with footage from TV stations...
DANCE
Hans Op de BeeckIn April 2013, at the invitation of the Red Star Line Museum, Hans Op de Beeck made the film Dance in the museum—a quiet, poetical film that is meant to make the public think about migration then and now. No less than 770 persons played the part of Red Star Line emigrants...
2 FEET FOR 2 BALLS
Messieurs DelmotteOn a football field, a disabled man is standing. He stares at two balls, a red one and a yellow one. Suddenly, the balls start to move and get closer and closer to the man till they climb up to his arms. This work is part of the series UNDO / REDO...
QUE SERÁ SERÁ
Joëlle de La CasinièreSix musical ‘video poèmes’ that are inspired by various faits-divers (“Fatal moments in the life of common heroes”, dixit the artist). Images, writing, song and dance, four different linguistic forms synchronically developed around the rhythm of the music...
LE CORAN - L'HOLOCAUST - LE JOUR DE GLOIRE
Sven AugustijnenIn flashing black and white letters and backgrounds, these works comprise words spelling out three cryptic and troubling short sentences, flashed onto the screens of three monitors, and appearing and disappearing at various speeds; ‘Le Coran, ça je ne connais pas’, ‘L’Holocaust n’est qu’un detail dans l’Histoire’ and ‘Le jour de gloire e...
Puerto y barco, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
PUERTO Y BARCO
Angel VergaraThe seaside and the entrance of Castelló’s harbor are shown. While Vergara is delineating the cinematic image with a brush, a ship approaches the harbor. Here, Vergara uses different types of brushes. While the ship is passing by, the camera turns with the ship in the direction of the harbour itself...
PATERSHOL, GENT
Jef CornelisAfter a general view of the city Ghent, its horizon and roofs, we are confronted with views of streets and houses in one particular district that is threatened with demolition. A poster announces protest actions against the demolition of the Patershol district....
QUOD
Alexis Destoop‘Quod’ is based on medical macro pictures of the eye. Through animation techniques the inner depth of the perceived “object” was accentuated. Then the animation was integrated into a 3D model, which was conceived as an unfolding surface. Contradictory principles are bundled together in a slowly transforming dynamic, a hypnotic dance of micro movements....
