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DIVE INTO MANKIND
Ria PacquéeFrom East to West Ria Pacquée observes and films people in and on the water: in and on seas, oceans, rivers and lakes. From a distance she zooms in on actions and rituals performed in and around the water. The recordings range from explicitly religious activities – such as bathing in the Ganges or a baptismal ceremony – to bathing purely for relaxation and pleasure...
JOUR DE FÊTE
Bernard GigounonIn this video Gigounon once again ventures on the broad footpath between reality and imagination. Science-fiction worlds are all around us, the only thing we have to do is allow our imagination to run freely. Gigounon backs us up with the assistance of a couple of simple video effects, so we can let go of the trivialities of reality, even for an instant...
WALKER, LE COLISÉE
Thomas Bernardet - Florent MulotThis film documents the Colisée, created by the architect Kisho Kurokawa, and its surroundings. The two protagonists wander around the spaceship of a building and its moonlike terrain, trying to apprehend its form and situation....
TENTATIVE D'AVEUGLEMENT ET D'ASSOURDISSEMENT
Claude CattelainWraping the camera in tape until it is deaf and blind....
PUB K DICK
Hänzel & Gretzel‘Publicité K Dick’ is a commercial for Dr. Smile’s substrate, that promises to give you “the ever welcome psychic youth”. The title refers to the American science-fiction author Philip K Dick, who was known for his periods of paranoia, madness and psychosis...
FRANCO
Angel VergaraIn a split screen, black and white images show the body of General Franco, the dictator who had governed Spain since 1939, being placed on a bier after his death in 1975, and the young king Juan Carlos, who would go on to lead the country towards a democratic regime. The images alternate with images of historical paintings and sculptures...
TWO TIMES
Manon de BoerDe Boer invited the Brussels-based pianist Jean-Luc Fafchamps to play John Cage’s eponymous composition ‘4’33”’ twice in front of a live audience in the Brussels’ studio space of P.A.R.T.S. (The Performing Arts Research and Training Studios)...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 43. VISION (WITH BIRDS)
Steve ReinkeI had a vision - it wasn’t a dream because I was awake. My father was dragging my mother into the forest by her hair....
REIGN OF SILENCE
Lukas MarxtA static shot shows part of a landscape, a serene body of water in front of a mountain. A motorboat enters the picture from the right, obeying the directions sent by radio and forming a spiral in the water´s surface. The boat then turns to the left and leaves the scene; solely its wake is visible for a time. Reign of Silence records a human intervention in nature...
FOTO-ROMAN
Ken KoblandRoad-video, video-poem, fugue-like daydream: this could be three possible labels for this associative and fragmentary video. The material, shot in Moscow, Beijing, Istanbul, Milan and New York, shows what any tourist gets to see in those places: a landscape rushing by seen from a train, a hallway on a plane, one’s feet in a bathtub...









