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A TEAR FOR A GLASS OF WATER
Orla BarryIn ‘A Tear for a Glass of Water’ the actress Tara Casey performs a fragmented monologue written by Orla Barry, to a static camera. A life belt is stranded redundant on the wall. Is it a rehearsal, a lecture? The performance is cold at times severe. Interest in religion has revived proclaims the performer authoritatively. So has toast and marmalade...
WALKER, LA CITÉ RADIEUSE
Thomas Bernardet - Florent MulotThis film is the Beta version of the “Walker” series, the first attempt at documentation of an architecture by two cameramen using the same camera. Experimenting the building as they stroll through it, they improvise an in-situ film scenario...
POSSIBILITÉS POUR UN ÉCRAN DE TÉLÉVISION / RÉFLEXION-ÉMISSION
Jacques Louis NystThis film, composed of three parts (1 - 'Réflexion / emission’; 2 - 'Une part de silence pour une part de réfléxion / animation’, 3 - 'Concentration’), was made the year of the first video exhibition in Belgium, held at the Gallery Yellow Now in Liège...
BUNCH OF FLOWERS
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte, as always dressed in a dandy-like costume, holds a bouquet of yellow roses. What does he have in mind for them? A few seconds later it becomes clear. Violently he starts spinning them around with the help of a drill. Delmotte keeps on spinning and spinning, until the roses are completely demolished. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...
THE SURRENDER OF BREDA
Luc GobynInspired by the painting of Diego Velasquez, ‘The Surrender of Breda’, an image of the mayor of Cuéllar before the start of the bullrunning....
LAURIEN, SEPTEMBER 2001
Manon de BoerFrom her dozens of portraits, Manon de Boer chose two, ‘Robert, June 1996’ and ‘Laurien, March 1996’, which she would - and still does - portray over an over again: the same individuals, in the same position, and within the same visual frame...
DJ REVERSE
Messieurs DelmotteIn ’DJ Reverse’ Messieurs Delmotte parodies an icon of popular culture and music: the deejay. He puts on a record that plays a disco tune. Then Delmotte starts dancing and scratching the record badly, screaming ’baby baby baby’. This work is part of the series FränZ ünd KoFöN...
UN PIED DANS LE JARDIN DE MIEL
Bernard MulliezWithin the framework of Europalia Europa festival (2007-2008), the CIVA in partnership with a supermarket group organized an exhibition called Supermarkets of Europe 1957-2007 in La Cambre Architecture School.Initially a mere financial supporter, the trade group became the very object of the exhibition, which illustrates the final outcome of the privatization of the cultural public services...
UN DIMANCHE APRÈS-MIDI À 6H DU SOIR
Jacques Louis NystIn both 'La clé du paysage’ and ’Un dimanche après-midi à 6h du soir’ the spectator is in the position of the voyeur, spying Danièle Nyst through a window. In 'La clé du paysage’, Danièle Nyst is sitting in the garden, flipping through a magazine. Her image is cut up by the window frame...
