COLLECTIE

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 51. WINDY MORNING IN APRIL

Steve Reinke
I dreamt I could suck myself off but when I woke up I found my back was nowhere near that flexible....

ET[-

Peter Downsbrough
ET[- opens with a silent black-and-white close-up of a vertical rod shuttling back and forth across a mechanical loom. The short sequence could be mistaken for footage from an early 20th-century propaganda film. Cut sharply to the next scene, also in black and white and taken from a fixed position but unmistakably contemporary...

DER FLEXIBLE UNTERNEHMER

Alexander Kluge
As indicated in the subtitle Tiehrmehlfabrikant Dr. Fred Eicke weiss Auswege, this work centres on the animal food producer Fred Eicke (a part played by Peter Berling). The title refers to The Corrosion of Character (translated into German as Der Flexible Mensch), a book from 1998 by the American sociologist Richard Sennett...

APRÈS LA PLUIE

Alberta Sessa
’Après la Pluie’ combines the visual and auditive notes she made during a trip through Shanghai and Peking. It is an account of waking up in another world, in between dreams and sensations, the physical and visual shock. The Super 8 images catch the penetrating colours and stimuli and an awakening love for a civilisation full of possibilities and contradictions...

PAUSE DE NUIT

Jean-Claude Riga
Between sunset and sunrise, while the majority sleep and enjoy their “night pause”, the men on the night shift work to a ponderous rhythm. Images, saved from oblivion, of a place where the age-old relationship between man and the elements still survives today....

FACE-OFF

Vito Acconci
In this video Acconci let the public sphere smash against the private sphere in the form of a ritual performance wherein the artist alternated between exposing himself and censoring himself. We see the artist bent over a tape recorder. On it the voice of a man was audible – Acconci himself – who contracts a consent and exposes the intimate details of his life...

Profesor Xavie Campos, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

PROFESSOR JAVIER CAMPOS

Angel Vergara
Professor Javier Campos Vilanova of Universidad Jaume I talks of Castelló’s origins and history. While he talks, he illustrates his words with drawings. Digital effects are used to bleach the recording itself....

The Greenhouse Effect, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist

THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT

Peter Finnemore
The greenhouse effect is a process by which thermal radiation is absorbed by atmospheric greenhouse gases, and is re-radiated in all directions: this results in an elevation of the average surface temperature. Closed inside a greenhouse, Finnemore's troops dance on the rhythm of a lounge score and re-radiate an uncontrollable delight....

QUE SERÁ SERÁ

Joëlle de La Casinière
Six musical ‘video poèmes’ that are inspired by various faits-divers (“Fatal moments in the life of common heroes”, dixit the artist). Images, writing, song and dance, four different linguistic forms synchronically developed around the rhythm of the music...

ETA, 1987, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

ETA

Angel Vergara
The artist made this film with a grant he received from the ’Fondation de la Tapisserie’ in Tournai. The film documents a performance in which the artist is walking around in Tournai, while he is 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...