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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 83. LITTLE MONKEYS
Steve ReinkeThose little monkeys raised in isolation with only a little chunk of fur stapled to wire mesh would have been far less maladjusted if it had been revealed to them that they were being watched and photographed....
CADAVRE EXQUIS (BRUSSELLE, PART I)
Katleen VermeirIn ‘Cadavre Exquis, Brusselle part: 1’ Vermeir maps out the city of Brussels by making a tour with Pierre Querut, a B-movie and documentary director from the seventies, of lost film houses in the former film district of Brussels. As Querut recollects on that era, he is always conscious of the proximity of the camera and he never stops commenting on Vermeir’s style of filming...
THE CONVERSATION
Harald ThysVoice-over of three friends are talking to each other. One of them, Jack, is telling a story about a man called Norman, who stayed at a wellness resort because of his severe rheumatic attacks. The images consist of photographs, that are pasted together and zoomed-in on. The sound of the gestures that Norman makes, are mimicked by the artist...
HOTEL RED SHOES
Lisa Spilliaert - Clara Spilliaert“A pretty little girl with red shoes on has gone overseasBy her side a foreign man from overseas The pretty little girl has boarded the ship from Yokohama Pier By her side a foreign man from overseas The pretty little girl’s eyes surely have turned blue by now Living somewhere in the land of the foreign man I always think of the pretty little girl whenever I see red shoes I always thin...
COLOURING IN
Rebecca Jane ArthurColouring in is composed of a series of Super 8 film portraits of female friends of the artist who each share reflections with her on their philosophies of life, how they connect to the world and what nurtures or grounds them. Filmed in their domestic spaces, the film offers intimate glimpses into their worlds...
Action cocktail, 1987, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
ACTION COCKTAIL
Angel VergaraImages from the mass media and Vergara’s own exterior shots are combined with video-recordings of a Brussels performance in which Angel Vergara asked everyone walking past to sign his CV in Marie-Puck Broodthaers’s Gallery des Beaux-Arts (where a Christian Boltanski exhibition was being held) and the gallery of Xavier Hufkens (a Julião Sarmento exhibition)...
FRÄNZ ÜND KOFÖN [SERIAL]
Messieurs Delmotte“My work is not a performance – and actually even less of a good idea.” The videos by Messieurs – or Monsieur - Delmotte spare nothing or no one and they trivialize anything that comes within his reach, including himself. His works are not self-portraits, nor transpositions of the author in one or more imaginary characters...
Off the Set, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist
OFF THE SET
Mira Sanders’Off The Set’ contains an imaginary conversation between the roundabout and the dot. The film stills being shown are filmed on a path next to the Demer, between Betekom and Aarschot (BE). The video was made during the artist’s residency in FLACC (Genk, BE)...
CAILLOUX
Claude CattelainIn his work Claude Cattelain tries to catch the essence of the volatile. His video miniatures are flashes of amazement and fragility, staged at times, or noticed in passing. Impulsive, not without a sense of humour, Cattelain records an actual spatial escapism or emotional turning points...
ANTHONY CARO, POMPADOUR
Jef CornelisA document on Anthony Caro, generally considered as one of the key figures in European post-war sculptural art. After a period as an assistant to Henry Moore, Caro gave up on figurative sculpture to start making heavy, abstract, spatial steel constructions...
