COLLECTION
Search collection
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 39. EDITORIAL
Steve ReinkeWhat is the difference between science and life ? Step away from that microscope for a second and I’ll tell you....
Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist
SILENT LETTER 19012009
Mira SandersThe second ’Silent Letter’ was written on April 15th, 2009. While the subtitles explain the rules of hopscotch and refer to a little girl who asked to play with her, we see a frozen image of a section of a breakwater (a manmade construction offering some protection to coastline). The animal sitting on the breakwater starts to run when the video shot does....
GRIMOIRE MAGNÉTIQUE
Joëlle de La CasinièreGrimoire Magnétique is the first musical “video poème” by de La Casinière, in which painting, writing and music are synchronically arranged, according to the rhythm of a deliberate composition...
DE ZWANEN VAN ROGER RAVEEL [TRIËNNALE BRUGGE]
Jef CornelisRaveel’s four swans were made for the Second Bruges Triennial 1971. We see Raveel and his assistants trying for the third time to put the swans into the waters of the Reien. Original broadcast date: 19/08/1971 Content: 00’00" Calendar. 00’30" View of a council workman pushing a cart containing Roger Raveel’s four swans made for the Second Bruges Arts Triennial...
BAD IDEAS FOR PARADISE
Emily Vey Duke - Cooper BattersbyA 10 minute experimental narrative telling the story of Karen Annasdaughter, a young woman raised by a group of radicals in the woods of Nova Scotia. With this project Vey Duke and Battersby aim to clear a psycho-spiritual space for the viewer which was not cleared before. "We want this space to contain empathy (identification) and joy...
POMMES D'AMOUR
Nicolas ProvostProvost’s film and video installations search for the dark beauty in every-day topics. Even though the work seems gloomy and tragic, humour and sarcasm are never far off....
YOKO OSHA CHAPTER III OR THE FIRST DAY IS THE DAY OF THE RIVER
Lazara Rosell AlbearThe third and final chapter of the Yoko Osha trilogy. “Making Saint” is an autoethnographic, sensorial and multilayered portrait of Santeria or Regla de Osha (The rules of the gods); the AfroCuban religion, forcefully imported from West Africa with the slaves trade and falsely syncretic for survival...
Eve of Destruction, Peter Finnemore, 2004. Courtesy the Artist
EVE OF DESTRUCTION
Peter FinnemoreOn an empty improvised stage in a garden, a cat, a cd-player and a potted sunflower are waiting for a kind of Elvis lookalike. Arrived on stage, the performer acts as if the sunflower is a microphone and sings over the number Eve of Distruction, written by P. F. Sloan in 1965, but best-known in the Barry McGuire's version. Obviously, a rock'n'roll ceremony ends by smashing the instrument!...
LORSQUE LE BATEAU DE LÉON M. DESCENDIT LA MEUSE POUR LA PREMIÈRE FOIS
Jean-Pierre DardenneA black-and-white video introduced by the brothers (looking like long-haired radicals) that revisits key people and places in Seraing’s workers demonstration for health insurance in 1960...
