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AFTERNOON (MARCH 22, 1999)

Steve Reinke
The artist spends the afternoon in his tiny apartment listening to music he dislikes and ruminating on what it means to be an artist. All the edits are in-camera and the monologues and songs are largely improvised....
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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 84. STENTOR

Steve Reinke
We are all so physically repulsive, special psychic forces are necessary for us to couple....

GARBAGE CITY

Jan Locus
The Zabbaleen (“Garbage people” in Egyptian Arabic) are Coptic Christians who migrated to Cairo 60 years ago and became the garbage collectors of the city.Their family-run micro-enterprises have created one of the most efficient recycling systems in the world...

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - LE PRÉSENTATEUR DE 20 CLIPS [20 X 30'']

Michel Bonnemaison - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman - Joëlle de La Casinière
A newscaster announces each of the different video clips of the series ’Video à la chaîne’ separately....
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JAN FABRE, DIRIGENT VAN HET TOEVAL

John Heymans - Peter Scholten
Starting in the visual arts, Fabre was immediately attracted to other artistic disciplines: theatre, performance, installation art, action theatre, dance and opera. Over the last 15 years Fabre, quintessentially a performance artist, has become a 'director of coincidence', as he himself puts it...

EENZAAM HUISJE

Jen Debauche
An abandoned house is haunted by the ghost of its former inhabitant, an old lady who cannot say goodbye to the dwelling of her living time. In the attic, a forgotten doll reminisces about the happy days, when the house was still beautiful and she could play in the blossoming flower garden. Now, everything has faded into oblivion and material decay...

BANG! JAMES LEE BYARS RE-ENACTMENT

Cel Crabeels
For the exhibition 'ORBIS TERRARUM—Ways of Worldmaking' (Museum Plantijn Moretus, Antwerp, 2000, curated by Moritz Küng), Cel Crabeels made this video re-enacting James Lee Byars’ well known piece 'Smithereens: the remnants of an exploded globe' that was on view in Galerie des Beaux-Arts, 1993, Brussels...

NEITHER “IN” NEITHER “OFF” (IN BETWEEN VENICE AND BIENNALE)

Messieurs Delmotte
In 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...

FOTO-ROMAN

Ken Kobland
Road-video, video-poem, fugue-like daydream: this could be three possible labels for this associative and fragmentary video. The material, shot in Moscow, Beijing, Istanbul, Milan and New York, shows what any tourist gets to see in those places: a landscape rushing by seen from a train, a hallway on a plane, one’s feet in a bathtub...
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140 BALLETJES

Luc Coeckelberghs
Hundred-and-forty white balls are floating in a hall. Attached to the ceiling with strings of different lengths, from low to high, they are hanging motionless in space. The camera records their presence from across the room, but also from above and from the side. Passing by slowly, the camera is suggesting movement. The balls interact with the patterns on the floor and the walls...