COLLECTIE

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 83. LITTLE MONKEYS

Steve Reinke
Those little monkeys raised in isolation with only a little chunk of fur stapled to wire mesh would have been far less maladjusted if it had been revealed to them that they were being watched and photographed....

THE DARK GALLERIES

Nicolas Provost
A fascinating hall of mirrors through a montage of film noir scenes where the actors face a painted portrait. This perfect blend of cinema and painting was commissioned to supplement a book study. Provost exploits the rules of editing to create an imaginary museum visit...

CASCADEURS (RIVIÈRES)

Michel François
A waterfall. Now and then a person lets the water carry him down. The irregular gaps between the split-second appearances of the people sliding down underscore the continual flow of the water....

PHANTOM

Jan Dietvorst - Roy Villevoye
A Papuan man fells a tree in the tropical rainforest in order to make a simple stucture. After finishing it his cousin carries the object around and thus transforms the building element for a short moment into a universal symbol. (Source: http//www.jandietvorst.com)...

GIZEH-BLANKENBERGE

Ria Pacquée
Ria Pacquée returns to Egypt, showing some of the sights and sounds which follow the sea of tourists which descends on Egypt every year. Against a back-drop of familiar gods, stylised figures and hieroglyphs, a steady stream of behatted, sunglass-wearing figures take photographs and record video footage...

CAPSULAR

Herman Asselberghs
Ciudad Autonoma de Ceuta is a Spanish enclave on the coast of Morocco. Formerly administered by the Spanish province of Cadiz, it is now an autonomous community with a parliament and a president of its own.  Ceuta, along with Spain, is now  part of the European Union...

Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin, Alexander Kluge, 1973. Copyright

GELEGENHEITSARBEIT EINER SKLAVIN

Alexander Kluge
Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin (In Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave) is the second Kluge's film, after Abschied von gestern (1966), starring his sister Alexandra. Roswitha Bronski is a nurse married to the chemical engineer Franz Bronski and they have three children...

TOPIC I

Pascal Baes
The French film theorist André Bazin used to consider film as a spell of time. He spoke triumphantly of a victory on the irreversibility and the transitoriness of life. Baes’s ’Topic I & II’ (the painterly quality of its dusky images is for a good reason reminiscent of Francis Bacon’s strokes) seems to question these transcendent views on cinematography...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 72. MY FEAR

Steve Reinke
Because I was afraid of everything, I developed extraordinary powers....

FOUNDLINGS

Orla Barry
’Foundlings’ was shot near Wexford, in the south east of Ireland where Orla Barry grew up. It is a  visual poem without a particular narrative and full of autobiographical elements, set at a very slow pace. Floating images and heavy voices are central to the associative strategy that is at work here...