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EDGARD TYTGAT
Jef CornelisThis short film, originally made for the television programme ‘Zoeklicht’, focuses on the late work of the famous Belgian painter Edgard Tytgat (1879-1957). The film was made on the occasion of the exhibition in the art centre Pro Arte Christiana in Vaalbeek, a village near Leuven. Tytgat finished his ‘Stations of the Cross’ the year he died...
MORE FROM THE JUDSON YEARS (EARLY 60S) INSTRUMENTAL-VOCAL WORKS VOL. 2
Philip CornerExcerpts from the liner notes of Volume Two, written by Philip Corner: ’Everything Max Has’ (1964), Max Neuhaus solo, recorded at the ONCE Festival, 1965. ’A performance of Max’s taking down all of his stuff; tons of equipment filling entire stages’. ’Big Trombone’ (1963), Jim Fulkerson improvisation over tape collage...
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - ART SURVEILLANCE
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique AhrimanImages of surveillance cameras combined with random television images, of for instance sport events and nature documentaries. The split screen images are accompanied by rhythmic music and a female voice-over. The video ironically exaggerates the aesthetic value of surveillance videos, which are to be considered as art forms....
VACUUM
Cel CrabeelsThe alternative showing space 'Vacuum for New Dimensions' owed its inception in 1970 to the happening and conceptual artist Filip Francis and his wife Maryse Masson and was housed in a art-nouveau house in the Cogels-Osylei in Berchem (Antwerp)...
LES ONDES DE LOVE
Edith DekyndtA flag made of 20 meters of black cloth, standing on the desert plateau of an active volcano, waves generated as if the mast movement of the fabric, forming a wave. When conditions are most favorable, the movement becomes sinusoidal and visually approximates the seismic waves discovered by the British mathematician Augustus Edward Hough Love (1863-1940)....
J'ESPÈRE QUE VOUS ALLEZ BIEN
Boris Van der AvoortTaken from film archives, this playful and nostalgic ‘montage’ wants to picture the lives and hopes of three generations of a Belgian family between 1931 and 1997. Images belonging to the family possessions take us back to childhood and play, journeys, relationships, dancing...
AN ORDER OF THINGS
Grace SchwindtThe performance took place at the Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe in September 2014. One performer is hovering horizontally a meter above the ground and the other, a magician, is sitting on a chair in a corner, turned away from the audience. She gets up four times to carry out dance choreographies and then sits down again...
GRAND PALAIS DEUXMILLEDIX
Luc GobynGrand Palais deuxmilledix is an experimental film exploring the relationship between architecture and movement. The audiovisual production takes the viewer into the contours of the metal structure of the Grand Palais, Paris. The construction becomes the frame of the picture. Into the image appear silhouettes of fencers...
PROPELLER
Roy VillevoyeSomewhere in the jungle op Papua lies an old propeller.It is an important object for the small Papuan tribe that lives with it.How did it get there?Through the stories of the sister of a deceased American missionary, a Papuan cultural chief and an aged American former pilot the enigma of the propeller is slowly being unraveled in this film...
