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UN DIEU AFFAMÉ
Hänzel & GretzelOn the music of Paradise Now, the short video Un dieu affamé combines details from a Renaissance painting with footages of kids playing, a statue of the Buddha, gardens and shaman's tribal dance...
Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. flotte, Alexander Kluge, 1972. copyright
WILLI TOBLER UND DER UNTERGANG DER 6. FLOTTE
Alexander KlugeAfter Der große Verhau (1971), Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte (Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet) is another unusual science fiction tale by Alexander Kluge. Shot on a deliberately low budget and stylistically intended to evoke the cinema of Georges Méliès, Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6...
THE ABSTRACT ISN'T SEXUALLY STIMULATING
Anne-Mie Van KerckhovenIn ’The abstract isn’t sexually stimulating’ , Van Kerckhoven gives a highly personal appearance to the battle between Eros and Thanatos.Between inside and outside, between good and evil thoughts, a game is played with the body and its thoughts through the animation of a drawing which resulted from her sub-consciousness. "Animation of a drawing from my subconscious...
LETTRE OUVERTE
Jacques Louis NystA short film in which the camera films a photograph of a nude woman on a table in a living-room. The voice-over describes, in French and English, how an avarage day in her life looks like....
MINABLE MUSIC-HALL EN VIDÉO-ART
Jacques LizèneWith “one of the untalented sequences of Jacques Lizène” as a subtitle, the artist himself wallows in his typical nihilism from the very start—or should we say infantilism? With a soundtrack of grating and complaining in the background, one derisory scene is followed by the next with great indifference...
+18 BERLIN (VERSION LONGUE)
Emilio López-MencheroBetween 1997 and 1998, Emilio López-Menchero lived in Berlin in the frame of an artist in residence grant at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. In that period, Berlin was the biggest city under construction in the world: the goal was to be at the appointment with the year 2000 and to provide a new image of the city...
Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist
SILENT LETTER 20012009
Mira SandersThe third 'Silent Letter' was written on January 19th, 2009. The inter- and subtitles refer to the act of drawing. A short way into the video, we see images of radio-commanded model airplanes. A fourth theme is made explicit here: the (clear) line. Throughout the letter, the line is connected with the theme of the border, to be defended by ''guards''....
WAITING WORKING HOURS
Ben De RaesIn a street in Brussels, day laborers are looking for a job for one day. Gathered in small groups, they wait for hours until a white van picks them up. They get dropped off at a construction site or field. Employers pay small salaries and no social security is provided. With their personal testimonies Waiting Working Hours wants to give a voice to these clandestine workers...
LES ONDES DE LOVE
Edith DekyndtA flag made of 20 meters of black cloth, standing on the desert plateau of an active volcano, waves generated as if the mast movement of the fabric, forming a wave. When conditions are most favorable, the movement becomes sinusoidal and visually approximates the seismic waves discovered by the British mathematician Augustus Edward Hough Love (1863-1940)....
