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BABULIA [SECOND CHAPTER OF INSTALLATION, FRENCH VERSION]
Nora Martirosyan"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...
WORLD OF BLUE. LAND OF O.
Bram Van Paesschen“Now it’s over between us, I don’t love thee anymore.” With these words – the camera trained on the filmmaker – O., the female protagonist in ‘World of Blue. Land of O.’, takes leave right at the beginning of the film, going away for a health treatment...
SCRUB SOLO 1: SOLONELINESS
Antonin De BemelsScrub Solo 1: ’Soloneliness’ is the first film experiment between Antonin De Bemels and choreographer Bud Blumenthal. A dancer facing a mirror, in a fixed frame, tries to catch his own reflection, the body incessantly turning round on itself. At times there is no more than an abstraction of white light, while at others his hand seems to pass through the mirror...
COVERING #4: LAMPSHADES
Luc Compernol‘Covering # 4: Lampshades’ is the fourth part in the ‘coverings’-series of Luc Compernol. In part one the term ‘covering’ stood for ‘covering a song’ (more precisely ‘Lovin’ you’ by Minnie Riperton). From the second part on, ‘covering’ was broadened to one of its other meanings, namely observing, watching closely...
IN-MID-AIR
Charlemagne Palestine"The first electronically generated sounds that Charlemagne Palestine ever heard came from the machines he encountered in ordinary daily urban life. Machines like the refrigerator electric motor, or electrical generators; but it was especially the sounds of motion (race cars, motorcycles, war planes, rocket ships) that first excited his sonic imagination as a young teenager...
GIRLS | MUSEUM
Shelly SilverWe are born into an already-constructed world. We each enter with new eyes into a culture thathas already been shaped and structured based on the desires and power of others. Historical artmuseums are charged with preserving and interpreting the tangible evidence of a civilization’scultural trajectory and artistic achievement...
HORAIZON
Meggy RustamovaHoraizon is an experimental film moderating between photography, moving image and sound. The title is referring to the English phonetic pronunciation of the world horizon. The film is shot in different locations throughout the world. The horizons, sunsets and weather conditions between these places form the common thread throughout the film...
VIDÉO HEBDO 40
Claude CattelainWhile holding his camera on top of his head Cattelain spins around....
Meschak, Laone et Michel, 2003-2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
MESCHAK, LAONE ET MICHEL
Angel VergaraMeschak Gaba responds negatively when asked whether art, freedom and artists are synonyms, because one does not have to be an artist in order to be free. He confirms that he is an artist, "because I am no artist", followed by a laugh. Laone answers, "yes and no". Artists are free to say and abstain from what they want...
DAGBOEK
Luc DeleuDuring the month of April, Deleu recorded his own audio-visual journal. He marks the days by using a tear-off calendar. A stream of images portray the artist’s every day life, inside his home and on the streets. The glimmering of city lights at night, the luring advertisements and the headlines of newspapers are captured on film...
