COLLECTIE

Stardust, Nicolas Provost, 2010 © the artist & producer

STARDUST

Nicolas Provost
Provost’s 2007 piece ’Plot point’ used a subtle combination of music, editing and photography to lead the viewer into a subconscious process of establishing and discovering a story. ’Stardust’ takes this a stage further, manipulating recorded conversations taken from films as well as background music...

APPLE

Shelly Silver
APPLE 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....

VACANCES

Nicolas Dufranne
The subject of ‘Vacances’ is simple: a couple with a child, happy at first sight, sets out on a journey of which the goal and the destination remain unknown. In the hotel where they halt a letter is waiting for the young woman, which arouses some jealousy in her partner. Later on during the trip there is a car accident in which the man dies...

VIDÉO HEBDO 9

Claude Cattelain
Manipulating the invisible can still hurt....

AVE. AVE. AVE MARIA

Jacques Lennep
Lennep reads a text about a painting by Picabia in the true style of a priest....

IDÉALE AUDIENCE : UN PAYSAGE TÉLÉVISUEL EN FRANCE

Joëlle de La Casinière
Idéale audience is a television ‘commedia dell’Arte’, written in TV. The composition of the work presents variations on three themes: the self-promotion of TV channels, the ideal audience filmed in a listening attitude, and ecstatic female announcers. All these stanzas are interspersed with McLuhanesque questions about the television medium, posed by cartoon characters...

MAQUILLAGE DE YVES SOMVILLE

Jacques Lennep
Video, apart from photography and holography, was but one of the media Lennep made use of during the 1970s, as he was adding on to his ‘museum of men’. His human models were derived from all layers of the populations, but they shared a common obsession for collecting things or, at the very, least an unusual passion...

TURN AROUND

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte, most literally, turns around the block. He seems to pose a bit like a wallflower....

A WEEKEND WITH MONSIEUR MAGRITTE, PART 2 SUNDAY

Jef Cornelis
The second part of a Magritte portrait, compiled from fragments of amateur films Magritte made himself on super-8 and 8mm, with home images of his family and circle of friends, outings and holidays. ’ Original broadcast date: 20/03/1997...

THERE

Peter Downsbrough
Just over two minutes long, THERE enfolds key components of Peter Downsbrough’s multiform practice: the visual vocabulary, formal strategies, and enduring themes found in his books, sculptures, architectural interventions (room pieces and wall pieces), photographs, postcards, and many of his other videos...