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BELONG
Shelly SilverBehind her desk, probably in her university office, a woman talks about belonging and argues that nobody really belongs to something nowadays. While she speaks, Silver edited old photographs of people from disparate origins as well as different cities and landscapes. The final static shot shows the Seine banks, the flag of France and a woman playing with her dog....
EVERYBODY LOVES NOTHING (EMPATHIC EXERCIZES)
Steve ReinkeReinke completed ‘Everbody Loves Nothing’ during his stay as an artist-in-residence at Video In in Vancouver. For this film, Reinke used archival footage from the Prelinger Archive in New York. The seven episodes are linked thematically. Each one takes an archival clip and inserts a narrator who, while speaking in the first person, moves smoothly between the first and third....
Battles of Troy, 2005, Krassimir Terziev © the artist
BATTLES OF TROY
Krassimir Terziev“Battles of Troy” is a study on the internal economy of contemporary globalized cinema production, seen through the eyes of the lowest unit in the production hierarchy - the extras. The focus of the study is the making of the Warner Bross Motion Picture “Troy” (2004). Starting in 2003 with a budget of 185 000 000 USD, Troy is one of the most expensive productions ever made...
Jean-François Fourtou et Simons, 2003-2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
JEAN-FRANÇOIS FOURTOU ET HENRI SIMONS
Angel VergaraJean-François Fourtou is a French artist living in Madrid (ES) and Marrakech (MA). In 2006, he developed an exhibition in the shop-windows of the former Gallery Anspach in Brussels. Fourtou first speaks about this project and previous ones...
THE ASCENT OF MAN. PART I: SILENT RUNNING-APPENDIX
Jayce SalloumBlack-and-white images of a lake and a wood fill the screen. The viewer hears soft piano music, alternated with the sound of birds. Suddenly a man starts screaming. The music becomes alarming. Is there any danger?...
DÉLIRIUM VIDÉO 6
Jacques LennepAnother part in this series of short sketches, consisting of recordings of performances that took place on different locations in Belgium and abroad. In Episode 6, we see the artist - amongst others - walking through the alps with a broken foot, filosophing in the royal passage of Ostend and on the beach and preparing a huge 'homard à la mayonaise'. ...
TROU
Michel FrançoisA close-up on two hands as they try to dig a hole in the ground. The speed of the video is accelerated which gives a nervous tension, enforced by the sound, to this seemingly neverending task....
NUDE DESCENDING A STAIRCASE
Eitan Efrat - Sirah Foighel BrutmannThe first part of Nude Descending a Staircase is a composition of clips found online that were made by visitors—pilgrims—to the remote memorial site of Walter Benjamin in Portbou, Spain. Each of these individual registrations is anchored in the specificity of the location...
Thirty one nights, my Palestinian encounters , Laurent Van Lancker, 2003 © the artist & producer
THIRTY ONE NIGHTS, MY PALESTINIAN ENCOUNTERS
Laurent Van LanckerThirty-one encounters, thirty-one nights: a personal diary that maps the discovery of a different Palestine - intimate, self-reflexive and full of hidden poetry. A personal diary that maps the discovery of a different Palestine – intimate, self-reflexive and full of hidden poetry...
