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CAMERA OBSCURA
Ronny HeiremansThis ‘camera obscura’ recording was taken near Point Lobos, San Francisco. This camera type (built by Floyd Jennings in 1946) consists of an enclosed space representing the outside world by means of a fully rotated projection. The dark room functions as a neutral intermediary and it redefines the outside as an exposed image on a hollow disc...
THE IMBECILE
Hubert MarécailleDevoid of close friends, a wealthy man, with perverse pleasures and lack of company, invites his aquaintances into his homes and gains the sympathy of his sons, promising an advantageous inheritance that another son refuses, causing irritation and total incomprehension, – irritation also created by his wife, that the man has bought her jewelry with his fortune "acquired honestly", insists du...
Page One, 2004, Bigas Luna © the artist
CONTAINER 10: EXOTISMEN
Jef CornelisA conversation about the predominantly Western fascination with exotic cultures. According to Herman Pollig, who made a number of exhibitions about exoticism under the header “Exotic worlds, European fantasies”, exoticism gets in the way of an objective understanding of alien cultures...
PIETER ENGELS, PARAMARCHE (REVERSE EVENT)
Jef CornelisCornelis prefers to make use of the medium of television to show a work by the Amsterdam artist Pieter Engels in its conceptual form, in stead of supplying a typical purely sterile and pedantic framework. Similar to his other work from the 1960s and 1970s, Engels focuses on tiny, everyday things, creating confusion by questioning expectations and preconditions...
A CURE FOR BEING ORDINARY
Cooper Battersby - Emily Vey Duke’A Cure for Being Ordinary’ is a short experimental narrative telling the story of Tim Eckman, a young computer programmer who escapes the drudgery of his work place by moving into the rafters above his cubicle. From the new perspective of his, he is able to draw conclusions about the impact of capitalism on human perceptions of time...
Poison Petals, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist
POISON PETALS
Peter FinnemoreTwo young girls in camouflage battle dress try to break all the glass panels of a greenhouse....
HIGH TIDE
Lukas MarxtHigh Tide hypnotically fixes its gaze on a landscape that’s either prehuman or postapocalyptic, but definitely a timeless arrangement in shades of gray — Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness. Stiff, dry and dully gleaming like damp tar, they tear a hole between the dark, gloomy sea and the grayish sky...
DE KLEUREN VAN DE GEEST
Jef CornelisDe kleuren van de geest (The colours of the mind) was broadcasted on October 28th 1997. It is the last Cornelis programme for the BRT. It's a fresh and penetrating visual essay about trance (music), iconography and disembodiment along our history. Cornelis wanders through epochs and regions, cultures and artistic practices...
