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VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - CATALOGUE

Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin
Images of lamps with different shapes and colours. The sales representative makes it clear that the objects can be ordered through the catalogue. On the background bells resound and a telephone rings out....

VIDÉO HEBDO 18

Claude Cattelain
After securing the camera in a styrofoam box, Cattelain throws it up in the air.  ...
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LA FIN DU MONDE

Jacques Lennep
Lennep adds a tiny extra to Gustave Courbet’s famous Origin of the World....

DIE LIEBE STÖRT DER KALTE TOD - BALLADEN MAGAZIN 9

Alexander Kluge
Since German Classicism, it has become customary to translate extreme, emotional events into a ballad, a popular form of song. This ‘Balladen Magazin’ brings Cossack lamentations, the horrors of the war in Chechnya, and the execution of the unfortunate Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, among others...

COFFEE

Hans Op de Beeck
The fixed camera on table-height shows a couple as through a window: immobile and seated on opposite sides of a table behind a cup of coffee. There is no contact between them; they just seem to ignore each other in a painful and deafening silence. No word is uttered. In the background the noise of coffee machines and cutlery almost drowns out silly muzak...

EXPO CHAMPÊTRE

Koen Theys
A white monitor, a white table and chair. The viewer can go and sit in front of the screen. Images out of the oeuvre of the artist appear and move by slowly in a perfect white landscape as if they were floating in a vacuum. Buses, cottages, a table, trees, lighting posts, groups of tourists with their cameras ready, a doorknob. The objects move along in an endless procession...
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VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974)

Jacques Lennep
This compilation combines short video sequences, recorded in 1974 and 1975 by the CAP collective, making them the first to use video as an artistic medium of expression...

FORMER EAST / FORMER WEST

Shelly Silver
"Made up of hundreds of street interviews done in Berlin two years after the Reunification, Former East/Former West is a vital, surprisingly open, and at times disturbing documentary about what it means to be German at this particular moment in history. For forty-five years, residents of this divided city lived radically different lives, both in terms of ideology and everyday experience...