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Comment liberer les artistes libres, 2003 Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist(s) & producer(s)
ENQUÊTE: COMMENT LIBÉRER LES ARTISTES LIBRES?
Angel VergaraBetween 2002 and 2004 Angel Vergara interviewed a series of figures from the Belgian art scene. He asked them what they understood to be the freedom of the artist. Some answers were rather short, while others resulted in longer conversations. The project developed out of collaboration with Benoît Eugène. The recordings were distributed through the website www.walkingvoice...
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...
CAPTIVE HORIZON
Lukas MarxtCaptive Horizon operates on a delicate line between reality and illusion. Lukas Marxt´s favourite motifs – barren landscapes, seemingly untouched by humans, but at the same time suggestively apocalyptic, and subtle changes in perception that play tricks on the observer – construct a peculiar narrative filled with mysterious angles and twists...
LA COMPLAINTE DU PROGRÈS
Claudio PazienzaA couple living in a basement is suddenly confronted with a disruption of its environment. The song by Boris Vian accentuates these progressive shifting through its ironic evocation of home objects. Created by the ALIS theatre company and the director, this film is part of a series of ‘chorégrafilms’, presented by Patrice Nezan, a producer for ARTE....
APPLE
Shelly SilverAPPLE is an fast-edited assemblage of views and details of a big sculpture in the public space shaped as a green apple alternated to a postcard of Paris' Eiffel Tower....
DYPTIQUE
Angel VergaraAngel Vergara’s Diptyque juxtaposes the position of two public figures with the mass media: Pasolini denouncing its standardising effect, its flattening of Italian society into sterile conformity (including the conformity in contestation), Berlusconi in control of the national media, but in the end powerless to govern...
EXTENDED PRESENCES
Margaux Dauby"Looking at the tree line, a question creeps into my mind and, simultaneously, I have a desire what if nothing existed?" (M. G. Llansol) Extended Presences follows several women in their seasonal work as fire watchers in Portugal. The film comes close to their breathing, to the passing of time and to solitude, from within....
Couple Regards Positions, 1984, Boris Lehman © the artist
COUPLE REGARDS POSITIONS
Boris Lehman“A two-way mirror. Water and fire. Water extinguishes fire, and fire boils away water. There are many difficulties preventing them from understanding one another. They can only marry when one of the two disappears, and yet they are inexorably drawn to one another, they need one another in order to exist...
GRAND PALAIS DEUXMILLEDIX
Luc GobynGrand Palais deuxmilledix is an experimental film exploring the relationship between architecture and movement. The audiovisual production takes the viewer into the contours of the metal structure of the Grand Palais, Paris. The construction becomes the frame of the picture. Into the image appear silhouettes of fencers...
JAMES LEE BYARS, ANTWERPEN 18 APRIL – 7 MEI 1969
Jef CornelisDocumentary on James Lee Byars’s exhibition at the Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp (18.04.1969 / 07.05.1969). James Lee Byars, his whole body covered by a robe, talks to Walter Van Dijck about the meaning of art, the new meaning of clothes, the beauty of ’Natural Landscapes In An Urban Situation’, the role of museums and his idea that a show is a translation of his ideas...
