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THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US
Jan Locus'The Distance Between Us' takes its starting point in some audio cassettes artist and photographer Jan Locus received from a Moroccan family in Molenbeek a few years ago. Probably going back to the early 1980s, the cassettes contain an oral correspondence between families in Brussels and Morocco. These anonymous audio letters bear witness to the pain of those who stayed at home...
EVIDENCE
Jan Dietvorst - Roy VillevoyeEvidence is a split screen film that combines disparate footage used in previous works. The film spans almost twenty years of artistic collaboration and it includes sequences from Us/Them (2001), The Bishop & The Doctor (2002), Propeller (2004), Winter Prayers (2006), The Gift (2007), The Scrap Iron Age (2008), Pressure (2009), War is Over (2011) and other films...
2012
Claude CattelainIn 2012 Claude Cattelain puts a light bulb on his mouth and holds it with his teeth. ...
ART NOUVEAU IN BRUSSEL
Jef CornelisThis is a small documentary on Art Nouveau in Brussels. Some examples are given, such as the Solvay Hotel built by the architect Horta and the pictures of Giovanni Wieser from the exhibition catalogue ‘Art Nouveau: Minor Masters’. Original broadcast date: 24/12/1971...
PIC PIC ANDRÉ SHOOW 4 MOINS 1
Stéphane Aubier - Vincent PatarA compilation of completely mad animation films, in the particularly characteristic low-fi style of the genius of animation Stéphane Abier. In ’Le mauvais cheval’ (’The Bad Horse’) cowboy Pic Pic tries to find gold in a river, but the horse André prefers to waterski behind the kite he made himself...
SOTTOVOCE
Claudio PazienzaA young widow and other women – in a village in the Abruzzo region (Italy) – tell the story of their love affairs. The Baron of Corvo de Corvis, a legendary character resuscitated for the purpose of this film, rummages about the streets of the hamlet, accompanied by a talking raven...
END CREDITS
Ken KoblandFilmed over a few nights in the late Ron Vawter’s dressing room during the show ‘Roy Cohn/Jack Smith’ at the Kitchen, NYC, in October 1993, this tape is a small but poignant homage to an extraordinary talent....
BLAD PAPIER
Gary BigotBigot writes the number one on a piece of paper laying on a table. With his hands, he moves round the edges of the piece. Then the artist sticks a needle through the paper. In ’Blad papier’ Bigot investigates the texture and physical qualities of paper. New pieces of paper are numbered, then thrown away. The video records a game of lines, numbers and measurements...
MÉTAPHORES
Gary BigotAll the events and actions in this video revolve around the number ten. They are all ’metaphors’ for that figure. A man is walking through the corridor of a historical building, numbering the pillars of the walls with a piece of chalk. A lady is counting to ten on her fingers. Likewise Bigot records images of ten windows, of ten jumps, and so on....
