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Historia de C, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
HISTORIA DE C
Angel VergaraA cinematic diptych shows brief fragments of landscapes, historical sites and classical drawings, sculptures and inscriptions. The video deals with Castelló’s history....
THE LADDER 2 (ALONE)
Messieurs DelmotteLike in a scene out of a surrealist painting, a lonely ladder is standing in a park and seems to be reaching for the sky. But this illusion is shattered when the ladder drops to the ground. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...
GIROUETTE
Mira SandersSanders films a weather vane on the Nieuwe Graanmarkt/ Nouveau marché au Grains in the centre of Brussels. Looking through the eye of the camera, it takes Sanders a little while to realize that at a certain moment, once the wind is blowing, the gilded weather vane has a blinding effect in the sun. Because of the camera placement, the film creates a magical time space for the viewer....
DE LA PAR D'ARNAUD
Jean-Philippe ConvertThis video looks into the relationship between two brothers, one of whom is struck with a mental handicap. Jean-Phillippe Convert based his idea on the Polaroid shots that his brother Arnaud had taken on a holiday trip in Normandy, and he asked him to write a piece of text from those pictures. Together they have made an impressionist poem, dubbed by Arnaud and with final editing by Jean-Philippe...
Deutschland im Herbst, Alexander Kluge, 1977-1978. copyright
DEUTSCHLAND IM HERBST
Alexander KlugeGermany, October 1977: the murder of Schleyer, Mogadishu, the mysterious death of Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe. A country in chaos, in a spiral of violence, fear and hysteria...
MADONNA WITH CHILD
Nicolas ProvostA very personal, fairly explicit and worrying portrayal of the birth of Christ....
VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): TV RÉALISME
Jacques LennepA television screen shows a pan of a park. Shortly it becomes clear that what we see actually is two performers carrying an 'empty' television set in the park and that the image is nature itself. An early experiment with the medium of television in the spirit of Nam June Paik or Wolf Vostell....
CHERRY BLOSSOMS
An van. DienderenCarly is working late at night in one of the many translation booths in a dark plenary hall of the European Parliament. It is the only place worldwide where everyday work is translated in 23 languages. Carly exerts to translate a documentary about Japanese subculture. Without specific interest for the theme she translates monotonically from the Japanese...
NUDE DESCENDING A STAIRCASE
Eitan Efrat - Sirah Foighel BrutmannThe first part of Nude Descending a Staircase is a composition of clips found online that were made by visitors—pilgrims—to the remote memorial site of Walter Benjamin in Portbou, Spain. Each of these individual registrations is anchored in the specificity of the location...
