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MIC MAC: AH, VOUS VOILÀ ROBERTO D'ORAZIO! [SYNDICALISTE]
Claudio PazienzaThe magazine Mic Mac, conceived by RTBF and ARTE, offers a perspective on the present as it is confided to artists. Current events are rendered with a non-journalist, personal approach. Each of the sequences is an encounter in a polling booth with a Belgian personality. The texts are projected onto a prompter, objects, sounds are offered to the guest as a cause for ironic exposure....
RACINES LOINTAINES
Pierre-Yves VandeweerdI travelled across Mauritania to find a tree that I saw from my window in Belgium. It wasn’t a mythical tree, but rather one that could be anywhere. On my way, I met men and women who shared their perception of this quest and in doing so, in a roundabout way they shared some of their visions of the world and of existence...
CAPTIVE HORIZON
Lukas MarxtCaptive Horizon operates on a delicate line between reality and illusion. Lukas Marxt´s favourite motifs – barren landscapes, seemingly untouched by humans, but at the same time suggestively apocalyptic, and subtle changes in perception that play tricks on the observer – construct a peculiar narrative filled with mysterious angles and twists...
THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
Steve ReinkeSpoken in the voice of American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, with a soundtrack of a picked-appart Black Sabbath song, ‘Fairies Wear Boots’. Dahmer has a monologue for each of his seventeen victims. The artist’s autobiography as a serial killer....
SPECTRES
Sven AugustijnenFifty years after his assassination, Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the newly independent Congo, is back to haunt Belgium. Through commemorations, encounters and a return visit, a top-ranking Belgian civil servant who was in Elisabethville on that tragic day of 17 January 1961 attempts to exorcise the ghosts of the past. To the sound of St John Passion by J.S...
HET GEDROOMDE BOEK: VARIATIES OP "VITA BREVIS" VAN MAURICE GILLIAMS [ENGLISH VERSION]
Jef CornelisOriginal broadcast date: 09/09/1980...
TANIA, FEMME DE CHARME
Jacques LennepTania, femme de charme is a sequel to Tania, modèle pour photos de charme. The work is part of the series Musée de l’homme, for which Lennep follows eight individuals who own a special collection or who have special habits.Tania works as a photo model and has no problem with naughty poses. She is all charms and can be contacted for erotic modelling...
THE WELL-HEELED
Hubert MarécailleDevoid of close friends, a wealthy man, with perverse pleasures and lack of company, invites his aquaintances into his homes and gains the sympathy of his sons, promising an advantageous inheritance that another son refuses, causing irritation and total incomprehension, – irritation also created by his wife, that the man has bought her jewelry with his fortune « acquired honestly &raqu...
Celebration, Hans Op de Beeck, 2008. Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano – Beijing – Le Moulin; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; Galerie Ron Mandos, Rotterdam – Amsterdam
CELEBRATION
Hans Op de BeeckIn harsh desert surroundings, with rocks and cactuses in the background, a wedding or some kind of celebration is taking place. It is blisteringly hot. The camera is mounted on a tripod.The scene is a tableau vivant: a living painting in which neither the view nor the picture frame changes...
