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Inventur / Invocation. I have watched ... , 2008, Ralo Mayer © the artist

INVENTUR / INVOCATION. I HAVE WATCHED ...

Ralo Mayer
What is the difference between watching and looking? Ranging from familiar modern technologies like Skype webchats and popular films to the favourite subjects of poetry like sunsets and landscapes, Mayer invites reflection on the process of watching and how it may shape the object....

I LOVE YOU, MY WORLD

Jan Vromman
For this film, Jan Vromman found his inspiration in the construction works at the Atomium, Belgium’s national monument. In 2005, the Belgian government renovated the coating of the balls. Jan Vromman recognised the globe of the earth in one of the stripped balls...

A LA RECHERCHE DU LIEU DE MA NAISSANCE

Boris Lehman
Film director Boris Lehman returns to Lausanne, where he was born on 3 March 1944, at the end of the war. He is returning after 44 years. He had lived in Lausanne just one year. His parents were Jews who had sought refuge in Belgium when the Nazis seized power in Poland...

TOMBEAU POUR M.B.

Jacques Lennep
A bone in the Belgian tricolour is lying at the foot of a statue. Lennep takes it and erases the three colours. He then buries the bone in a field. The work alludes to the burial of Marcel Broodthaers. ...

DE NAZI

Jos De Gruyter
Before the eye of the camera a Nazi attempts to justify his acts. The scene is a parody of the ‘anonymous’ interview: the voice is scrambled and the head is not shown on screen. The relativizing testimonial is given an unreal and absurd edge through subtle pace accelerations...

METAL MEDITATIONS (GOLD COVER)

Philip Corner
Philip Corner ‎– Metal Meditations Label: Alga Marghen – C 1NMN.008 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Italy Released: 1997 Genre: Electronic Style: Experimental (source: https://www.discogs.com)...

X Ray Eyes, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist

X RAY EYES

Peter Finnemore
Finnemore wears sunglasses, a camouflage battle dress, gloves and hat. His face is also covered with camouflage battle tissue and a scarf. Without unveiling his face, he slowly unfolds the tissue. Then laser-lights point his face....

UNDERWATER

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte tries to get a grip on a rock under water, his face heading up stream. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

STARFIGHTER

Wolf Vostell
'Starfighter' contains images of war scenes, ranging from simply figurative to invisible or almost erased. The images were filmed directly from the television screen with a Super 8 camera: blurred footage on a harrowing sound that illustrates particularly well a point Marshall McLuhan made: the media subtly manipulate information. (Berta Sichel)...

ANTHONY CARO, POMPADOUR

Jef Cornelis
A document on Anthony Caro, generally considered as one of the key figures in European post-war sculptural art. After a period as an assistant to Henry Moore, Caro gave up on figurative sculpture to start making heavy, abstract, spatial steel constructions...