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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 06. EMERGENCE OF DEMOCRATIC MEMORY
Steve ReinkeWhen something enters into us and becomes incorporated as a memory, there must be some changes within the brain, but no one knows what they are....
CAMERA OBSCURA
Michel LorandFor ‘Camera Obscura’, Lorand made a night-time recording from a moving automobile, along an empty and unlit road, projected the dark images against a wall and filmed them again with a hand held camera...
Jérôme/Grégoire, 2008, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
JÉRÔME/GRÉGOIRE
Angel VergaraWith a brush, Angel Vergara traces the images of a video-recording of the hands of a father and son entwined in play. The screen-shot is framed upright. Here artist’s eye moves the social and political issues he encounters on the street and in the media, towards a more private scene....
LE PAYSAGE
Jacques Louis NystIn 'Le paysage’ a cup of coffee reflects: “I was drawn towards this landscape straight away. Calm, slightly hilly. The ideal place to rest oneself” before actually alighting on the tablecloth....
WATERLOO FOREVER!
Koen TheysA fictionalised impression of the Battle of Waterloo, as it is created every year by more than 2000 reenactors in the same fields where the slaughter once took place. In heroic battlescenes, thousands of figurants try to act historically correct, with perfectly reconstructed costumes, horses, cannons and gunfire...
CLEAN AIR
Grace SchwindtClean Air investigates how meaning is projected onto landscapes. For instance, the Alps are linked with power, purity and cleanness, terms that were also used to describe the German identity from the 1920s onwards. Two female performers of different generations react to this mental construction with a choreography of dance, music, costumes, milk and knitting....
LOUISE
Charley Case‘Louise’, described by the artist as "ils font l’amour, ils se battent" ("they make love, they fight each other")....
De Kus #3 (Kristalkus), Frank Theys, 1997. Courtesy the Artist
DE KUS #3 (KRISTALKUS)
Frank TheysThe third instalment of Frank Theys’ series 'The Kiss'. In this silent short film that is part of an installation to be played in a loop, we see a couple intensively French kissing. Using the medium of the MRI scan, the computer translates this image into a 3D-object, spinning around itself endlessly....
DOCUMENTARY CREDIT
Eva Meyer - Eran SchaerfIn economic jargon, “documentary credit” refers to a mode of payment that involves a bank between buyer and seller in order to ensure the buyer’s reliability. In the context of politics, “documentary credit” describes a kind collateral security that is not only based on the on the mutual loss of trust in each other but on the same time also recreates such mistrust...
