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Ria PacquéeSince the 1970s, the Belgian artist and performer Ria Pacquée (b. 1954) has recorded her presence in this world, or rather disguised herself as a specific persona. Lately, Pacquée has turned the camera towards the ‘outside’ world...
INFORMATION SUR LA COULEUR
Jacques Louis NystIn spite of its title, this video is previous to the outbreak of colour in the Nysts’ work. A black and white photograph of Danièle Nyst is followed by an image of the “real” Danièle Nyst knitting. The camera tracks the wool thread and then offers us a close-up of the wool ball just as we hear a loud and clear “Jaune” (Yellow)...
ABOUT THE ANTICAPITALIST CARNIVAL
Charley CaseTo work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection. Raoul Vaneigem About the Anticapitalistic Carnival illustrates the importance of the celebration in (r)evolutionary thinking...
ANARCHIST PILGRIMS
Charley CaseA 55 seconds split screen clip where Charley Case combines a scene of a pilgrim with images of an anarchist truck going to a protest. ...
Storyteller, Nicolas Provost, 2010
STORYTELLER
Nicolas Provost’Storyteller’ takes found stock footage of the cosmopolitan skyline, recomposing and mirroring the images to create a slick artificiality reminiscent of science fiction. At first glance, the viewer might think of space ships floating slowly through the universe, but quickly ’Storyteller’ reveals its source: images of downtown Las Vegas shot from a helicopter...
RISING FALL
Lukas MarxtRising Fall is a three-part study on nature as its spectacle, on what Spinoza termed natura naturans, or “nature naturing.” Something happens without the need of a guiding agent. Filmic images are content to quietly watch and listen and wait. And they expect the same of how they are observed. In other words an immanence of nature confiding a secret...
QUE SERÁ SERÁ: MELODRAMA
Jacques Lederlin - Joëlle de La CasinièreIn a marginal urban trailer park, a hungry pig eats a newborn baby, while the mother is away. Through a peeping hole a woman is singing about this horrible fait-divers. Images of babies and pigs are projected on the background....
LADY LIQUE
Marc MeertA recording of the installation ‘Vertus Publiques, Vices Privés’ by Diana Bobolou, as part of an exhibition in the Fine Arts Academy in St.Josse-ten-Noode. What might seem at first sight like the working environment and daily ritual of a prostitute is in fact merely an artificial installation in an exhibition environment....
FRÄNZ ÜND KOFÖN [PART]
Messieurs DelmotteA short video, part of a serial, in which Monsieur Delmotte pretends to be a German Artist. Standing in front of a door, he holds a seemingly very serious and highbrow speech in a language that is supposed to represent German. Only here and there words like “Ausstellung, Künstles, Sheisse,…” are understandable. This work is part of the series FränZ ünd KoFöN...
IJSBREKER 03: DWARS-FLUITEND
Jef Cornelis - Mark De Geest - Jackie Claeys - Freddy CoppensThis time the programme ’Ijsbreker’ turns its attention to the flute and to diverse opinions on this instrument. The occasion for it is a study week for flutists in a cultural centre in Amsterdam, where a number of soloists, composers and teachers get to speak...
