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EGO SUMO VERSION 2 (2005)
Emilio López-MencheroEgo Sumo Version 2 (2005) is the second attempt by Emilio López-Menchero to embody a Japanese Sumo wrestler. The work answered to the invitation of Michel François to contribute to the group show Théatre des Opérations that took place in La maison de la Culture d’Amiens, France...
L'ECOLE DES PICKPOCKETS
Sven AugustijnenThe filmmaker focuses on a daily and well-known hassle in public spaces, namely the phenomenon of pickpockets. Two professional thieves give a master-class in the art of pickpocketism in front of the camera. A video between fiction and reality....
PERFORMING SPACE
Erki De VriesA first draught of this video was designed specifically for a performance festival at the gallery Galerij Jan Colle (Ghent). The video was projected onto a full surface, acting as an imaginary reflection or extension of the environment, as if its structure was constantly manipulated...
GLOBAL GROOVE
John J. Godfrey - Nam June Paik"This is a glimpse of the video landscape of tomorrow, when you will be able to switch to any TV station on the earth, and TV Guide will be as fat as the Manhattan telephone book." So begins Global Groove, a seminal tape in the history of video art...
LE LIVRE EST AU BOUT DU BANC
Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle NystBeyond the documentary aspect, the script proposes a reflection on books, through a poetic fiction. From the desert of Nomala, Theresa Plane and Professor Codca make their way towards the star "Without a doubt". On the star they meet Nadin the Angel. A dialogue ensues during which multiple aspects of books are touched upon...
AN (THAUMATROOP)
Didier Volckaert"A boy and a girl are making love on the filmscreen. This is a Cinematographic illusion, in reality they are never seen together on the screen. On the celluloid boy and girl are never together in the same photogram. During the making of this film the boy filmed the girl and she filmed him. Virtual sex by means of an old Bolex camera...
LA MAZDA JAUNE ET SA SAINTETÉ
Sandra HeremansA conceptual experiment on what it means to start a film with a black image, develops into a subtle personal essay about the filmmaker. This short film tells the story of a Belgian missionary who fell in love with a Rwandan woman, metamorphosing little by little into a personal reflection by their daughter...
THE NATION
Pieter GeenenThe isolated people of Nagorno-Karabakh are living in a time vacuum since the cease fire of 1994. They live in a de facto independent country, but remain unrecognized as such by the international community. This area is still subject of an unresolved and long forgotten conflict which is the result of the collapse of the Soviet Union...
BASKET MATCH
Emilio López-MencheroBeatrijs Albers & Emilio López-Menchero was the title of a show curated by Luk Lambrecht at Cultuurcentrum Strombeek Grimbergen, in Brussels, on September 2000. The curator and art critic invited the two artists to work in dialogue in order to realize a collaborative exhibition project around the theme of the borderline...
