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THIS, OF COURSE, IS A WORK OF THE IMAGINATION
Wendy MorrisIn 1917 the Steamship Mendi sailed towards the English Channel and France. On board was a battalion of South African labour troops. In the early morning, in fog, the ship was rammed by another boat and sinks within twenty minutes. 600 men drowned. A legend evolved around the last moments of the men and the manner in which they faced their death...
VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): L'ÉCRAN
Jacques LennepAn early experiment with the medium of television in the spirit of Nam June Paik or Wolf Vostell. The camera is filming a television set, wherein the performer seems 'trapped'....
VEGETATIVE STATES: AN ATTEMPT TO INSTIL AND MEASURE ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN HOUSEHOLD PLANTS
Steve Reinke - John MarriottSeductive and eerie, ’Vegetative States’ observes an experiment in which a lush, potted Peace Lily is wired to a polygraph (lie detector) device and is then shown hypnotic art videos, while a technician monitors its responses. This attempt to influence and measure perception quickly morphs into a genre blurring deconstruction of point of view...
MOVING OUT
Geoffroy De Volder‘Moving out’ is a contradictory film about altering loves. Constructed as an audio-visual compilation in which random indications of childhood, sexuality and passion are brought together as a broken nuptial, this film has an overwhelming intensity that relives the alienation and exposure throughout the story of a physical confrontation that threatens us and tears us apart...
DEAR LORDE
Cooper Battersby - Emily Vey DukeBone collector Maxine Rose, a 14 year old teenage girl, is looking for validation from her heroes, amongst them the primatologist Jane Goodall, bishop Desmond Tutu and the New Zealand teen pop Star Lorde. Offering them a gift of language, Maxine Rose stands for the desire to be visible and understood, not unlike the desire of an artist...
IMPROVISATION
Eric PauwelsIn ‘Improvisation’, Pauwels films Pierre Droulers improvising to the music of Thierry De Mey in a one-sequence shot. A dancer and a camera-man limited in space and time. Both improvise within the confines of this setting. An uninterrupted take. We hear the tones of an exciting staccato rhythm...
MUET COMME UNE CARPE
Boris LehmanFrom pond to plate, we are shown the journey and destiny of one carp among many. This particular carp will be eaten stuffed during a family meal. Carp stuffed ‘in the Polish fashion’, also called in yiddish ‘Gefilte Fish’ is a traditional dish eaten by Ashkenazi Jews. It is cooked, sweetened and served as a cold dish at the start of the meal...
Blanket Apology, Adam Leech, 2010 © the artist
BLANKET APOLOGY
Adam LeechBlanket Apology focuses on strategies of communication that are used when public figures give public apologies. Like Speech Bubble (2008), Blanket Apology is a dialogue between a man and a woman...
HEXHAM HEADS
Chloë Delanghe - Mattijs DriesenTinted by the red safelight of the darkroom, the film (re)constructs a breathless pastoral horror about a place crystallized in time and terrorized by two 6cm tall stone heads whose current location remains unknown...
