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Gand Nord, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
GAND NORD
Angel VergaraVergara filmed this piece looking northward over Ghent. On the edge of the Book Tower’s terrace lies an open catalogue of Chambres d’Amis, an exhibition which took place in Ghent in 1986. With a brush in his hand, he traces the images with gestures that suggest he is painting...
PIANISTE
Michel FrançoisFilmed from above, a beggar with a Casio toy on his lap. A few cents in the dish. Street noise. Pretend playing. The Casio’s sample tunes : Mozart’s Turkish March for instance. Passers by don’t notice his make-believe. They don’t truly see him. When others would tend to shut their eyes, the spectator keeps them wide open....
HET KONINKLIJK PALEIS, ANTWERPEN, ICC
Jef CornelisFor the exhibition The Royal Palace - Builders and Inhabitants that took place in the former Royal Palace in 1970 at the Meir in Antwerp, Jef Cornelis delivers a short but unconventional documentary film. The original 18th century building used to provide accommodation to important rulers such as Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Willem I of the Netherlands (1772-1843) and the Belgian Royal House...
METAL MEDITATIONS (GOLD COVER)
Philip CornerPhilip Corner – Metal Meditations Label: Alga Marghen – C 1NMN.008 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Italy Released: 1997 Genre: Electronic Style: Experimental (source: https://www.discogs.com)...
AU QUART DE TOUR
Antonin De BemelsIn ’Au quart de tour’ a character moves through a black image. Because of the musical editing in De Bemels’s typical stroboscope-like and fragmentary style it seems as if the character moves about hectically, though in reality he hardly moves foreward at all....
IDEAS OF ORDER IN CINQUE TERRE
Ken Kobland“In November of 2004 I was invited to spend a couple of weeks in Cinque Terre, (a string of towns along Italy’s northern Mediterranean coast). The area is listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO because of its exquisite shoreline and the hill towns clustered on its rocky promontories...
INCH'ALLAH
Ria PacquéeAn associative mosaic of tiny instances in images and sound, zapping from east to west, from Belgium to Tunisia, from France to Israel, Morocco or Yemen. A reflection of everyday reality. The video shows an important step in the evolution of Ria Pacquée’s earlier work, where she headed out into the streets with a camera, arranging her images around formal elements...
ONLY A FREE INDIVIDUAL CAN CREATE A FREE SOCIETY
Grace SchwindtOnly a Free Individual Can Create a Free Society revisits discussions that Schwindt witnessed during her childhood, surrounded by radical leftwing individuals in Frankfurt, Germany...
Magnum Begynasium Bruxellense, 1978, Boris Lehman © the artist
MAGNUM BEGYNASIUM BRUXELLENSE
Boris Lehman"’Magnum Begynasium Bruxellense’ is a living chronicle of the inhabitants of the Béguinage area of Brussels, so named because it is located over the site of the old béguinage. Conceived of as an encyclopaedic inventory, the film is composed of around 30 chapters interlinked like so many pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, or an anthill of numerous and overlapping galaxies...
