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EVENTUAL HORIZON
Elise GuillaumeFilmed in the Arctic, Eventual Horizon threads together the artist’s experience of insomnia, grief, and hope. In this viscerally engaging film, a parallel is made between the experience of mourning a loved one and ecological degradation. Perceiving grief as an active element of hope, Eventual Horizon focuses on the transformative and healing power of these states...
PARKING 2004
Aurore Dal MasAurore Dal Mas is fascinated with the vocabulary that is used in popular music, as a peculiar reflection by and on mankind. Before this she made ‘Show Room’, a pseudo-autobiographical video clip based on a song by Julio Iglesias. The sweet, sensuous words take on a preposterous and cynical undertone in the mouth of a postiche chansonnier...
CUT
Michel Lorand’Cut’ takes us along a slow, night time journey through the outskirts of a city, over a heavily travelled highway network. Only at the end do we get a fleeting glimpse of a man, lonely, but walking determinedly along the side of the road...
SHEIK ATTACK
Eddo SternIn this video Eddo Stern combines Israeli pop songs from the late sixties -optimistic, nation-building songs- with violent, militaristic scenes from computer/video games, resulting in a vertiginous, thought-provoking spectacle...
The Hamptons, Jordi Colomer, 2010. Courtesy the Artist
CITYGARDEN
Ruben BellinkxThe film "Citygarden" is a video registration of a permanent installation in the city garden in Ghent, Belgium. At a certain spot in this city garden the earth is slowly splitting open and closing. Air cushion, two electronic controled ventils, air compressor....
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...
SYLVIA, MARCH 1 AND MARCH 2, 2001, HOLLYWOOD HILLS
Manon de BoerTwo 16mm loops, shot on Super8 films in each of which the actress Sylvia Kristel is filmed on two successive days in the Hollywood Hills. The film shows the actress in close up while she lights a cigarette. She tries to seduce the viewer by looking into the camera and using her departed beauty....
GIZEH-BLANKENBERGE
Ria PacquéeRia Pacquée returns to Egypt, showing some of the sights and sounds which follow the sea of tourists which descends on Egypt every year. Against a back-drop of familiar gods, stylised figures and hieroglyphs, a steady stream of behatted, sunglass-wearing figures take photographs and record video footage...
Shelly Silver, How We Are, 1981 © the artist
