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WAGNER & VIDEO
Sophie CoppéSophie Coppé followed Koen en Frank Theys in the production process of their ground-breaking video 'De Walküre' (1989, second part of the diptych 'Song of My Soil' ('Lied van mijn land'). Apart from following their intense rehearsal process, and showing images out of the original piece, the brothers talk openly about the project with the dramaturge Reinder Pols...
OGGI È PRIMAVERA
Claudio PazienzaThis short film was shot on 21 March 1988, the first day of spring, in a sequence shot. It is part of a series, entitled Un plan d’amour, and it shows the unflappability of a man who comes home to a hail of blows....
PORTRAIT OF KARL MARX AS A YOUNG GOD
Gernot WielandPortrait of Karl Marx as a young god is an absurd documentary about (political) desire. The film consists of collages and drawings with voice over comments by a telephone speaker. The images visualize specific historical reminiscences from recent German history, while the voice over extends and counteracts these images with a multitude of absurd and humorous interpretations....
HƏƱMS
Laurent Van LanckerThe three-channel installation Həʊms superposes similar soundtracks on different footages. The sound fluctuates between recognizable familial noises and unintelligible conversations, scraps of composition and soundscape...
VIDÉO HEBDO 65
Claude CattelainAfter 65 videos posted every week during 16 months, as a kind of auto-da-fé, the camera is burned....
THE PEEBLES
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte filmed from the back, launches pebbles into the water of a river. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...
YOURS,
Eva Giolo - Rebecca Jane Arthur - Katja Mater - Sirah Foighel Brutmann - Eitan Efrat - Maaike NeuvilleA group of artists are invited to be inspired by the work of the well-known, Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman, specifically her film News from Home (1976). The busy city of New York serves as the film’s main character. Meanwhile, we hear Akerman’s voice reading letters from her mother in Brussels...
L'étranger, Mekhitar Garabedian, 2006 © the artist & producer
L'ÉTRANGER
Mekhitar GarabedianThe work ’L’Étranger’ is an adaptation of a poem of the same name, the introductory part of Charlies Baudelaire ’Petits poèmes en prose’. This short piece of prose composed as a poem was published for the first time in 1869 and tells the story of a nihilistic man, who has given up or lost all his connections...
BETWEEN FLASHBACK AND DÉJÀ-VU II
Krassimir TerzievTwo cameras are watching each other. One of them - fixed on a tripod overseeing a wide panoramic view of Sofia from high viewpoint, the other one - mounted on a drone seeking the location of the first one in a close-up on the facade of a building....
OOG EN HAND ALS UITDRUKKING 02
Jef CornelisFor the art programme 'Openbaar Kunstbezit' Cornelis made two essayistic television reports in 1972 about the use of hands and eyes in the visual arts, “a way to look and to communicate.” Once more, 'Oog en hand als uitdrukking 02' ('Eye and hand as expression 02') is particularly free with regard to its format, bearing in mind the television standards of the time...
