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PORTRAIT DU PEINTRE DANS SON ATELIER
Boris Lehman"The film is a cinematographic encounter of two ways of looking – those of the painter Arié Mandelbaum and the film-maker Boris Lehman – and of a voice, that of the singer Esther Lamandier (Both Arié’s and Esther’s names mean almond-tree)...
QUARTET
Wim CatrysseIn Wim Catrysse’s Quartet (2002), a single-channel installation, we see four men bending over. The camera films them from a bird’s-eye view. The men are inside a dark space and seem to find it hard to keep their balance on the moving floor. Though the characters constantly move slightly, they seem frozen, waiting in relation to each other...
DO IT YOURSELF
Emilio López-MencheroDo It Yourself mocks the DIY video made for handymen about the most common home makeshift jobs. Instead of explaining how to fix a tap or install a lift gate, the video explains how Emilio López-Menchero prepares the two concrete shoe leathers of 18 centimetres that he considered his portable and human scaled monument for Berlin...
LA FORCE DES CHOSES
Bernard MulliezThe film is a portrait of the father of the artist, who lived off a private income provided by a familial commercial empire—for which he simply had to thank his birth. Mulliez has tried to render visible the exterior forces that influenced this man. There’s of course the issue of money, but there’s also the matter of an interiorized user’s manual that comes with capital...
Blanket Apology, Adam Leech, 2010 © the artist
BLANKET APOLOGY
Adam LeechBlanket Apology focuses on strategies of communication that are used when public figures give public apologies. Like Speech Bubble (2008), Blanket Apology is a dialogue between a man and a woman...
RELATIONSHIP STUDIES
Charlemagne Palestine"Relationship Studies LP includes 2 seminal electronic music radical realizations by Charlemagne Palestine, or ’Relationship Study No. 1’ (1967) and the generally titled ’Electronic’ from the same year. Sounds in motion like race cars, motor cycles, war planes, rocket ships excited Charlemagne sonic imagination when we was still a young teenager...
LA SCALA
Aglaia KonradModernist architecture is the subject of Aglaia Konrad’s 16mm films but rather than – and beyond – a form of architecture on film, or film on architecture, what her films propose is an investigation into the potential for film to embody the experience of architecture as sculpture...
