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Hans Op de Beeck
This video image is projected life-size on a wall. It’s an eight-minute, real-time recording, appearing on a white surface, then disappearing and repeating itself without end; very important to realise: this is not a loop. We are confronted heads on with a family (a man, a woman, 2 little children) running towards us, but on the spot, without actually moving closer...

PANIQUE AU VILLAGE, ÉPISODE 11 : LE BEAU VOYAGE DE GENDARME

Stéphane Aubier - Vincent Patar
Farmer Steven and his wife are happy because the weather is lovely! When they take the cows to the meadow early in the morning, their path crosses that of Policeman, who is knocked down by a strange vehicle. The thing turns out to be a time machine! With the time machine, Policeman lands in the Middle Ages, where people take him for a sorcerer...

THE TOY SUN

Ken Kobland
A rumination on Time, with a capital "T". Time and its ravages, which really just means its progression, its nature. Set off by an "old" poem, a T.S. Eliot poem that’s literally haunted me for 30? or 40? yrs...even before I became an old man myself. (It’s an old man’s rumblings, and it never fails to move me...

TAROT-SUTRA

Laurence Vray - Charley Case - Bouchra Moutaharik

Jokes, 2000, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

JOKES

Angel Vergara
Vergara asks the artists participating in ’Over the Edges’ to tell a joke. While he is in his car, he tells one himself in French and Dutch....

FROM GREEN TO RED

Claude Cattelain
Run up to the traffic lights ; press the crosswalk button ; run to hide ; the light becomes red and the cars stop. At the green light, run up to the traffic lights......

LE SUICIDE DE CASSINI

Pauline Julier
The video work Cassini’s Suicide (2017–2019) shows the American space probe Cassini, which burned up as planned when it entered the atmosphere of Saturn in September 2017...

GROUP - ED]

Peter Downsbrough
A video triptych (And, Here, As...) fully recorded in the area around Lille and Tourcoing, commissioned for the exhibition ’La ville qui fait signes’ at Le Fresnoy (autumn 2004). The trilogy is partly based on ideas around urban space, architecture, transport and the distribution of goods, which Downsbrough points out as a necessary element in the human environment...

CONCRETE & SAMPLES I: WOTRUBA WIEN

Aglaia Konrad
Concrete & Samples I, II, III is a series of 16mm films on sculptural architecture. What the buildings and site in all films have in common is the idea of ‘architecture as sculpture’ and a very distinct use of concrete that seem to depart from the free form of the whole in a sculptural manner...

NUDE DESCENDING A STAIRCASE

Eitan Efrat - Sirah Foighel Brutmann
The 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...