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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 96. CAMOUFLAGE
Steve ReinkeThe beauty of the world may be all around us, but sometimes it can be hard to spot....
La chambre blanche, 1989, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE
Angel VergaraDuring the opening of Ronny Van de Velde’s Gallery in Antwerp, Vergara’s alter ego Straatman sat beneath his white canvas. He was posing for a work by Marcel Broodthaers....
A NECESSARY MUSIC
Beatrice GibsonA Necessary Music is a science fiction film about modernist social housing. A musically conceived piece, referencing the video operas of Robert Ashley, the film explores the social imaginary of a utopian landscape through directed attention to the voices that inhabit it. Roosevelt Island is a small sliver of land situated between Manhattan and Queens, intersected by the Queensborough Bridge...
BRAINSTORMING
Bernard GigounonStooping over a directory of Belgian enterprises, one cannot fail to recognize that we have a certain talent for abstraction when it comes to finding names for our companies. Bernard Gigounon likes to think of these as being the result of some very serious brainstorming sessions. Reading the names out loud one after the other, the artist reveals an absurd and incredible tangle of words....
TRAUNSTEIN
Nicolas Dufranne - Julie GasemiClaire discovers that she appears in a poor quality film found on the internet. She sees herself at the window of her house, accompanied by a man she does not know. They look like they are in love. She decides to set out in search of that stranger, towards Traunstein. The characters are caught up in a narrative which seems to repeat itself indefinitely...
POETS OF MONGOLIA
Peter Brosens - Sakhya Byamba - Peter Krüger‘Poets of Mongolia’ is the third part of the ‘Inti Films Mongolia Trilogy’, following ‘City of the Steppes’ (1994) and ‘State of Dogs’ (1997). Structured around the transformation of coal into energy, ‘Poets of Mongolia’ evokes the meaning of poetry in the daily lives of ordinary people whose dreams haven’t come true...
Atomium In/Out, 2006, Marie-Françoise Plissart © the artist
ATOMIUM IN/OUT
Marie-Françoise PlissartDesigned by engineer André Waterkeyn and built by architects André and Jean Polack for the 1958 World Exhibition of Brussels, a molecule of iron, enlarged 165 billion times, was chosen to represent the science of the future. Once a symbol of collective utopia, the Atomium is today a monument with a life of its own...
CINEMA
Jean-Paul Deridder - Peter VandenbergheThis video captures the image of furniture and kitchen appliances left behind on the street. The sound of upbeat piano music reverberates. The pieces of furniture were abandoned by their owners, stripped naked of their use and are now waiting to be demolished....
DAGBOEK
Luc DeleuDuring the month of April, Deleu recorded his own audio-visual journal. He marks the days by using a tear-off calendar. A stream of images portray the artist’s every day life, inside his home and on the streets. The glimmering of city lights at night, the luring advertisements and the headlines of newspapers are captured on film...
GRENZSTEINE
Ulrike KnorrAlong the former border between East and West Germany, on the Eastern side there was an area of about 5km of width, where access was made difficult for the larger part of the population. A region with woods, fields, small villages… A place with a strong symbolic meaning, impressed upon people’s minds. This film sets up an imaginary stroll across those borderline landscapes...
