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BERLIN/NILREB: TOURIST JOURNAL
Ken KoblandAfter spending eight months in West Berlin as an artist in residence (1986-’87), Kobland wanted to send something back that would describe his impressions of living in a divided city...
PERFORMANCE METRO MEIR
Ria PacquéeAs the title indicates, this video is a recording of a performance that Pacquée did together with Danny Devos in 1979. Standing on the lowest metro platform, Pacquée is on a small wooden square. With white duck tape she has made a bigger square around it, of which she keeps on enlarging the edges with new pieces of tape...
ALEKSANDER SAKOEROF, KAMER 333, LENFILM, ST.-PETERSBURG, 3 MEI, 1995, 15 UUR
Gorik LindemansWhen Lindemans saw his first film by Alexandr Sokurov he was completely off his rocker. While he had not understood a word the film had touched him deeply. So deeply that three years later he travelled to Leningrad to make a documentary on Sokurov in the Lenfilm studios. Lindemans: "He said I could drop by in May, when he would be in St. Petersburg...
POUR LA MÈRE ET LA FILLE
Olivier DekegelAn impressionist elegy about spring, water, light and motherly love, shot from the shoulder on Super 8. Connecting colourful snapshots and intimate scenes the film constitutes a homage to the candour, the cordiality and poetical nature of amateur films, home movies and domestic holiday shoots, which have developed over a couple of decades into conventionalised visual representations of the world...
DE KLOK SLAAT VIJF: TEXTIELARBEIDER
Jef CornelisSome 200 years ago, spinning and weaving used to be a domestic industry. Women and children spun, the men wove. With the invention of the flying shuttle in the eighteenth century, weaving became industrialized. Some time later, in England a semi-mechanic spinning machine was invented. In Belgium, the town of Ghent was the main centre of the textile industry...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 41. PIONEER
Steve ReinkeRecently I attended my maternal grandparents’ 55th wedding anniversary. I became a little sad thinking how a fully articulated spectrum of sexual pleasure had been denied to them....
OMBRE INDIGÈNE
Edith DekyndtA flag made of hair was stuck in the ground and filmed on top of rocks on the Diamant coast, in Martinique. There, precisely, on the night of the 8th of April 1830, a clandestine slave boat transporting a hundred African captives washed up on the rocks before being entirely destroyed....
Shy Gardener II, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist
SHY GARDENER II
Peter FinnemoreClose-up on some pear and apple trees where rudimental scarecrow has been hanged between branches. Finnemore slowly appears behind a sunflower, picks an apple, eats it and throws the core against the scarecrow: its camouflage battle hat fall down and it remain a ball with a sarcastic drawn smile....
RAW MATERIALS
Justin BennettBased on personal memories reaching way back into time, Raw Materials creates a resonant patchwork with fragments of field recordings originating from divergent cities like Fribourg (Switzerland), Barcelona or Beirut. With a pitch-black image as canvas – a technique that actively shifts the attention towards the sound – snow-white text lines appear one by one in typewriter style...
Promener les images, 1988, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
PROMENER LES IMAGES
Angel VergaraVergara is walking around different locations in Antwerp, holding a series of empty frames. With the empty frames he is suggesting that the actual artistic content and input of his performances should be looked for in the city itself...
