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PRUEBAS
Ardélia IstarúIn 1982, accompanying my father to Paris, my Costa Rican mother sent a series of letters to her parents when she arrived in the French capital. Forty years later, I found these letters and revisit a story full of pain in order to better understand my own arrival on the continent....
AU-DELÀ DES ICEBERGS
Xavier ChristiaensFollowing The Taste of Koumiz (Le Goût du Koumiz) (2003) and The White Camel (La Chamelle Blanche) (2006), Xavier Christiaens now presents Beyond Icebergland (Au-delà des Icebergs), a new free ride into imaginary territories...
HEARING THE SHAPE OF A DRUM
Marie VoignierIt was the end of April 2008, when the sleepy Austrian village of Amstetten was shocked by the news about the so-called ‘Amstetten Monster’. It turned out that for years villager Josef Fritzl had sexually abused his daughter and that he had locked her up—together with three of the children he had father by her—in a cellar he had built especially for this purpose...
PEINTURE À L'HUILE N°3
Thomas BernardetThe video camera records the motor of a running car filmed in close-up for 45mn....
WHAT DOES SHE SEE WHEN SHE SHUTS HER EYES?
Karen VanderborghtA surrealistic whim, an experimentally shot initiation into life’s’ imagination. Moa, a home-sitter, kills the ‘why’s’ in people’s lives. From a filmmaker who destroys films, she receives a camera to record her many experiences...
THE TREE HOUSE
Trương Minh Quý"In Trương Minh Quý’s striking second feature, a man living on Mars in the year 2045 examines footage brought back from his encounters with an indigenous community in the jungles of Vietnam. As he experiments, his thoughts drift from matters of identity, aesthetics, and the politics of imagemaking, to ritual burial practices, to the seen and unseen forces that shape cultures...
Inventur / Invocation. I have read ... , 2008, Ralo Mayer © the artist
INVENTUR / INVOCATION. I HAVE READ ...
Ralo MayerFrom science-fiction novels to scientific articles, wikipedia entries to bank statements, billboards to poetry, Mayer blends the personal with the impersonal. Pre-existing associations with the word ’read’ and the process of reading are questioned when the verb is combined with unexpected ’texts’ – concrete, a face, a body...
NEITHER “IN” NEITHER “OFF” (IN BETWEEN VENICE AND BIENNALE)
Messieurs DelmotteIn the summer of 2013, Messieurs Delmotte developed a series of performances in Venice while the Biennial was taking place. In different parts in the city of doges, he poses or interacts with his direct environment...
THE MUSICAL CHAIR
Ruben BellinkxIn the film installation "The Musical Chair" we see a chair being attacked by three dogs. The dogs compete with each other to gain possession of it. Eventually the fight results in the destruction of the chair. Each part gives a specific view on this event.PART I: In this part we only see one dog wich constantly barks at a chair that stands in te middle of the space...
