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IT’S QUICKER BY HEARSE · THE TALE OF THE PETITIONING HOUSEWIFE, THE PROTESTING SCHOOLBOY AND THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL STUDENT
Esther JohnsonWhen Madge Elliot complained about the announced closure of her local train station in Hawick, her mother told her to do something about it, and that’s just what she did...
THE CONVERSATION
Harald ThysVoice-over of three friends are talking to each other. One of them, Jack, is telling a story about a man called Norman, who stayed at a wellness resort because of his severe rheumatic attacks. The images consist of photographs, that are pasted together and zoomed-in on. The sound of the gestures that Norman makes, are mimicked by the artist...
INLAND VOYAGES IN AN INLAND VOYAGES
Mira SandersNavigating. We rarely think about it, and yet for most of us it is an everyday activity. Internet, Google Maps, GPS, etcetera: who can do without them? Mira Sanders was deeply touched by Robert Louis Stevenson’s travel story An Inland Voyage (1878). In it Stevenson relates how with a friend he paddled in a canoe from the Belgian town of Antwerp to Pontoise in France...
Media Burn, Ant Farm, 1975-2003. Courtesy Electronic Art Intermix (EAI), New York
MEDIA BURN
Ant FarmIn Media Burn, the multidisciplinary collective Ant Farm completely unmasks the power and effects of the media. In order to free America from its television addiction, as the “artist president” announced in the videos, a performance is organised for Independence Day 1975: Ant Farm staged the collision of a car and a stack of televisions...
TWILIGHT
Michel LorandThis film, taken on a stormy day along the coast of the North Sea, simultaneously registers the development of a storm and the descent of nightfall. The wide panoramic image shows us a stretch of sand and surf, and the turbulent sky above. A courageous walker passes by with his dog. The camera too braves the harsh weather conditions...
LA MINA
Loredana BianconiLoredana Bianconi filmed the cockerilles d’Anderlues, the oldest of Europe, just before the plant was closed. ’La mina’ is a contrasting evocation of life in Belgium in the 1950-ties, of which a young girl called Mara gives us her vision...
VIDÉO-FIL
Jacques LennepIn his ‘relational’ video work Lennep investigates into art as an idiom and a structure; how to perceive art and the relationship between art and society. ‘Vidéo-fil’ is a recording of a performance. During a first act Lennep draws an uninterrupted, squiggly line on his face, with a black felt-tip, after which he envelops his head with tape...
THE ALLENS
Erik BüngerA sound and video installation where a computer program continuously changes between the different vocal incarnations of Woody Allen. Moving from Sweden, a country where we normally never overdub movies, to Germany and being confronted with all these strange, misplaced voices on television and in movie theatres became quite a shock...
GREAT BLOOD SACRIFICE
Steve ReinkeA walk with shaky hand held camera through the landscape of the high desert of New Mexico, down the cliffs to a water reservoir accompanied by Reinke’s voice over: “I had a dream last night. I was in a room with Joy Behar, and she had wrapped a dog in aluminum foil, and the dog couldn’t get out...
