COLLECTIE

FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1999, CITY OF LONDON

Charley Case
In Friday, June 18, 1999, City of London, Charley Case witnesses the widespread rage against the capitalist system and the emergence of an alternative system out of the system, out of time. This work reveals great sensitivity to political and social debate and militate for a freedom of expression and total movement...

Zapatero, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

ZAPATERO

Angel Vergara
Black and white images illustrate José Luis Zapatero’s term of office. He became prime minister of Spain in 2004 and was still in power when Vergara was filming. Images of for instance a homosexual couple during a wedding ceremony are shown – with a new act, Zapatero’s government made this kind of marriage possible...

SITE, EEN TOPOGRAFISCH PORTRET

An van. Dienderen
"What’s identity? To what extent does origin determine the work of an artist? An van. Dienderen analyses the matter by means of a visual anthropological portrait of José Besprosvany. This choreographer of Mexican-Jewish-Slavic origins tests out his multiple identity through the personal trajectory of his work...

CASCADE

Bernard Gigounon
An image of 25 seconds from a river is printed, piled on top of each other and accelerated filmed again. The magic of cinema does the rest....

BLACK BEHIND WHITE

Andreas Brehmer
In this video compilation, Brehmer toys around with words, images and sounds as in some sort of visual essay concerned with how we perceive things, how we describe them and how we deal with them. In order to understand what we see, a certain amount of belief in what we see is indispensable. Brehmer tests the associative imaginative powers of the spectator...

SAME RIVER TWICE / DEUX FOIS LE MÊME FLEUVE

Amir Borenstein - Effi Weiss
In 1869, John McGregor, a Scottish adventurer and explorer, set out on a journey along the Jordan River from the river source to the Sea of Galilee. As he gazed down from the northern reaches of the Jordan he wrote: "To say the very least of this scene, it was at any rate pretty. What it would seem if bereft of its holy associations and remembrance of a hundred armies that came this way [.....

RECORD: I LOVE YOU

Eva Meyer - Eran Schaerf
A dislocating experiment realised at Amsterdam’s cultural centre Brakke Grond for the exhibition ’Smooth Space’. The video shows a dancing couple indirectly through round mirrors mounted on different heights onto the ceiling. The camera, held by the male dancer, is pointed upwards to film himself and his partner...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 74. APOLOGY

Steve Reinke
I don’t know why I am showing this video to you. I am sure it is a failure and should be removed from ’The Hundred Videos’. Indeed, I have deleted many videos which were more interesting, more worthwhile, and more deserving of your time and patience....

J.P.

Steve Reinke
A remix of the 20 mn ‘Tuesday and I’ by young Canadian artist Jean-Paul Kelly. Reinke leaves the 20 mn one-take monologue intact, speeding up and slowing down the tape (mostly speeding up) to extract empathy for the subject and squeeze sounds out of his body....

ANTHONY CARO, POMPADOUR

Jef Cornelis
A document on Anthony Caro, generally considered as one of the key figures in European post-war sculptural art. After a period as an assistant to Henry Moore, Caro gave up on figurative sculpture to start making heavy, abstract, spatial steel constructions...