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VICTORIA (PART OF PAS DE DANSE)
Anne-Mie Van KerckhovenWhenever Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven sees Marc Vanrunxt dance, she feels the urge to show him her interpretation of those moments. Van Kerckhoven: “Filming a dancing subject heightens its visual accessibility. Opposite to the enforced static position of the seated spectator, the point from which the dancer is viewed becomes personal. It becomes possible to observe details accurately...
THE SIMPLE FACT OF NOT BEING A WOMAN (1)
Messieurs DelmotteIn this early piece, part one of two, Messieurs Delmotte dresses up as some disco diva, dancing naked in front of the camera on a thumping disco beat. Is it so easy not being a woman?...
LA SOCIÉTÉ DU SPECTACLE ET SES COMMENTAIRES
Jan Bucquoy‘La société du Spectacle et ses commentaires’ is the sixth and final part of Bucquoy’s cycle ‘La Vie Sexuelle des Belges’...
NATURE SEE YOU
Erik BüngerIn November 2015, at the eve of the UN climate change conference in Paris, a video was uploaded on the internet, in which Koko, a gorilla trained in the use of American Sign Language, addresses world leaders directly. She chastises humanity and calls for immediate action to save herself and the nature she is part of...
L'OMBRELLE DESCENDANT UN ESCABEAU
Jacques Louis NystIn 'L’ombrelle descendant un escabeau’ (a title directly quoting Marcel Duchamp’s 'Nu descendant un escalier’) Jacques Louis Nyst appears once more as the explorer who discovers for the first time a common and well-known object, the paper parasol this time. He tries to explain its origins, way of life, and even reproductive techniques...
Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist
SILENT LETTERS
Mira SandersSilent letter is divided into six monitors. Five of them present a video sequence in which lines of sharing, contours, observation, positioning (1 x n) in the landscape, urban space, and the artist studio, are introduced. Each video, inscribed with a date, delivers the story of a foreign observer. This story is subtitled on a black screen...
WINTER PRAYERS
Jan Dietvorst - Roy VillevoyeIs every collector necessarily a murderer? Jean-Paul de Vries, the film’s protagonist, is quite the opposite of a killer. He may not exactly be the one who wakes the dead - but he does try to show that there are other ways to live and deal with life, rather than ‘protect oneself against death’...
THE DESERTER
Harald Thys - Jos De GruyterIn the woods a strange character is discovered by the local authorities. A couple of scientists under the supervision of a doctor and an examining magistrate go into the matter and try to discover who the reticent man is....
WIE GEWOHNT. EIN VERSATZSTÜCK
Eran Schaerf - Eva Meyer‘As Habitual’ is a set piece, a documentary fiction, about how to adapt oneself to unknown regions without surrendering to them. This movie is situated in Mombassa and Zanzibar, where you can find a material called Khanga that hovers between language and architecture, and in fact turns into a habit...
