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UN PO’ DI FEBBRE
Claudio PazienzaThree immobile women, on a three-street intersection, are waiting. Then other figures appear. Long and austere shots evoke the skirmishes between policemen and miners in Flemish Limburg, by the end of the eighties during the closing of the mines....
Gonzalez 2, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
GONZALEZ 2
Angel VergaraBlack and white images illustrate the term of office of the Spanish prime minister Felipe González Márquez, who was prime minister of Spain from the end of 1982 until 1996. With his brush, Vergara traces the cinematic images, while he and the images are behind a glass screen. Sometimes the brush moves across the glass, leaving paint sweeps behind...
CONSEILS POUR JEUNES COUPLES
Hänzel & GretzelStuff yourself with lead, have a sip of mercury and get high! This is some of Hänzel & Gretzel’s piece of advice for young lovers....
TROU
Michel FrançoisA close-up on two hands as they try to dig a hole in the ground. The speed of the video is accelerated which gives a nervous tension, enforced by the sound, to this seemingly neverending task....
THE TREE HOUSE
Trương Minh Quý"In Trương Minh Quý’s striking second feature, a man living on Mars in the year 2045 examines footage brought back from his encounters with an indigenous community in the jungles of Vietnam. As he experiments, his thoughts drift from matters of identity, aesthetics, and the politics of imagemaking, to ritual burial practices, to the seen and unseen forces that shape cultures...
I LOVE SALVA SANCHIS
Marc Vanrunxt - Robert CashNext to a road, with the sound of cars and the roaring wind, the dancer Salva Sanchis performs a delicate, almost dreamlike series of movements. Dancing in his robe and on his bare feet, it seems we are witnessing a creature from another time and place....
DE MATERIE: ARCHITECTUUR EN BELGIË
Aglaia KonradAglaia Konrad makes photos and videos of globalised urban spaces. She is particularly interested in worldwide urban development and pays special attention to urban programmes that have been sidelined -- projects that were never fully accepted or completed. With De Materie (The Matter or The Material), Konrad focuses on Belgium, the country where she lives...
L'arbre. Peinture en 1 acte et 7 tableaux, 1988, Angel Vergara Santiago. © the artist(s)
L'ARBRE. PEINTURE EN 1 ACTE ET 7 TABLEAUX
Angel VergaraIn a few seconds Vergara filmed seven paintings of a tree, a technique he also applies in ’La belle Rosine. Peinture en 1 acte et 12 tableaux’ and ’Palais d’Egmont. Peinture en 1 acte et 12 tableaux’. The images in black gouache are schematic and rough, painted in coarse brush sweeps...
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....
