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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 06. EMERGENCE OF DEMOCRATIC MEMORY

Steve Reinke
When something enters into us and becomes incorporated as a memory, there must be some changes within the brain, but no one knows what they are....

La sortie des usines VW, 1987, Angel Vergara Santiago. © the artist(s)

LA SORTIE DES USINES VW

Angel Vergara
At the Volkswagen factory, Vergara shot hours of material of workers leaving the building. He filmed most of the images indirectly: the artist had set up his camera in front of shop-windows and other windows, which causes a reflection or a multi-layered image. With its purpose and its title, the work echoes ’La sortie des usines Lumière (1895)...

CONFUSING DRUM

Jan Locus
In Belfast the night before July 12th – the annual Protestant celebration – massive bonfires are lit in many Protestant neighborhoods.These towering structures, built months in advance, are mostly made up of wooden pallets and car tires with some reaching over 30 metres tall...

AFTER ALL

Charley Case
In ‘(After all)’ the faces of several people are mounted one after the other, partly illuminated by flickering fires. An elderly man appears on the screen every now and then, holding a torch. The sound in the background reminds of dark shamanist throat-singing and the video as a whole gives the impression of an age-old ritual in a primeval forest....

LUCES DEL DESIERTO

Félix Blume
Strange lights appear at night in the Mexican desert – it seems to be full of life. The residents tell us what they’ve seen: a fireball, lights flying, lightning falling from the sky, a flash. The singularity of each experience builds a complete story narrated by a choir of people...

WHAT'S DONE, EVIL'S DONE

Messieurs Delmotte
"This is not a performance and even less a good idea." Mystery artist Messieurs Delmotte performs silent-movie hijinks with disregard for dignity and limb. In ’Ce qui est fait, le mal est fait’, the city merely provides a milieu for absurd actions performed alone before the camera...

MONSIEUR EZIO BUCCI, SUPPORTER - CHEZ LE COIFFEUR

Jacques Lennep
Video, apart from photography and holography, was but one of the media Lennep made use of during the 1970s, as he was adding on to his ‘museum of men’. His human models were derived from all layers of the populations, but they shared a common obsession for collecting things or, at the very, least an unusual passion...

IJSBREKER 21: MODE

Jef Cornelis - Jackie Claeys - Freddy Coppens - Mark De Geest
An episode of ‘Ijsbreker’ on contemporary fashion. Several designers and stylists are presented, from different generations and traditions. Recorded right before the first heyday of the Antwerp fashion academy, the urge for innovation is still pretty subdued in this programme...

PANIQUE AU VILLAGE, ÉPISODE 3 : LE RELAX

Stéphane Aubier - Vincent Patar
In ‘Le Relax’, Horse, Cowboy, and Indian are preparing waffles. However, they do not have any eggs. Horse and Indian are going to try to find some on the farm. In the meanwhile, Cowboy unwraps an enormous package indented for Horse (whereas the latter had stressed that no one should interfere with the package), a ‘relax’ and truly multifunctional armchair...

LEÇONS D'UNE UNIVERSITÉ VOLANTE

Luc Dardenne - Jean-Pierre Dardenne
’Leçons d’une université volante’ is a quintet of short interviews with Belgian immigrants from communist Poland. The Dardennes have said one of the reasons they made documentaries was to gather people together and build communities of workers, immigrants, and activists...