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Claude CattelainThe camera is filming its reflection until it bumps it to reveal the next mirror ......
Sofie cassière, 1987, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
SOFIA CAISSIÈRE
Angel VergaraVergara films a cashier at work in a supermarket. During the length of the work, consisting of one shot, she is serving some customers and announces a message over the intercom. Vergara films uninterruptedly from the same position. Just as ’Tino cordonnier’, ’Sofia cassière’ is understood to be simply a recording of someone else’s work....
DE KUNSTENAARS VLAKBIJ / LES ARTISTES À CÔTÉ
Jan Vromman“De Kunstenaars Vlakbij” (“The artists nearby”) is a series of portraits of unknown artists, produced on the occasion of the exhibition “De Eerste Trede” (“The First Stile”) at Argos Centre for Art & Media (2003). The starting point of this film was the wonderment about the basic idea that so many people are occupied with art in a serious manner...
CAMINOTHÉRAPIE
Charley CaseFor an exhibition in the Hermès exhibition space (Brussels, October 2004), Charley Case created a circular metal construction...
CLAMOR
Edurne RubioPeople who committed suicide and babies who died before being baptised were not accepted in Catholic cemeteries until not so long ago. Desperate relatives secretly sought out a dignified place for their bodies. Burials that shared hills and wind with executed people, atheists, passers-by, Protestants.....
HISTOIRE D'UN CORPS
Jacques LennepA short conceptual work by this Belgian pioneering video artist about corporality and memory. The artist is in a room that resembles the lavatory of a school of gym. He takes off his suit and a female voice-over starts to sum up some of his physical problems and ailments: scars on the knee, a curvature of the spine due to scoliosis, angiomas...
2012
Claude CattelainIn 2012 Claude Cattelain puts a light bulb on his mouth and holds it with his teeth. ...
Der starke Ferdinand, Alexander Kluge, 1976. copyright
DER STARKE FERDINAND
Alexander KlugeThe clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups such as The Red Army Faction. He finally becomes so obsessed with possible security leaks that he turns terrorist to prove his own case...
HEUREUX SÉJOUR
Marta Bergman"If I hadn't had my camera, I wouldn't have dared look at them so closely. There was a kind of uneasiness, discomfort, fear... Then behind the eyepiece - less cowardly, as if protected - I wanted to see and hear the silences and the stories, outside time. See and hear my grandmother and her neighbours in the rest home prepare themselves to depart from life and head for death"...
