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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 12. MICHAEL AND LACAN
Steve ReinkeGenesis of the ego: imaginary identification. Mirror stage/ narcissism. Fragmented body: aggresivity....
THE BREECHES (1)
Messieurs DelmotteA person – Messieurs Delmotte himself ? – stands with his back in front of the camera. He is wearing white, almost transparent underwear; the only part filmed is his mid section. Slowly something brown and sticky is filling the underpants. An early Dadaistic piece, definitely not suited for the faint of heart. Part one of two....
SCHORT
Jozef SomerlinckA person wearing an unconventional apron is pouring milk and chocolate powder in a bowl. When the mixture is ready, it’s poured into the small baking tins displayed on the table....
TURN-ON
Vito AcconciThis is one of Acconci’s most charged and dramatic exercises. ‘Turn-On’ defines a tense and dynamic confrontation with the viewer as well as an autobiographical work in which the artist assesses himself critically. In the first sequence we see the backside of the artist’s head in extreme close-up. Turned away from the camera, Acconci hums...
COVERING #2: PARKING LOTS
Luc CompernolA woman and a man, a suitcase and a car: how to get through the night without a narrative? This is the second part in a series of short films that reveal their content only by suggesting questions, ‘Covering #2’ is more than a mood piece; it is a careful study of the atonic terminals in our everyday network....
RITUS
André ColinetThis film is told through flashbacks, but without making it too obvious from the start. A man raped a girl, whom he knew from his group of friends, at night on a street corner. Images from this incident reappear throughout the film. Inside an empty room, except for a table and some chairs, people are drinking and talking. Among them there are the girl and the man. He seems nervous and angry...
THE WAY OF THE CROSS
Robert CashThe Way of the Cross is a contemporary video variation on the Way of the Cross, as it is depicted in 14 stations on paintings in Christian churches. Cash’s Way of the Cross is taken by train, each platform where the train stops representing a scene from the Way of the Cross in a sober way – without making use of requisites or historical costumes...
REGARDE JONATHAN / JEAN LOUVET, SON OEUVRE
Luc Dardenne - Jean-Pierre Dardenne’Regarde Jonathan’ highlights the work of dissident playwright Jean Louvet through highly impressionist montages (a lone boxer, moving trains, dancing feet) and Brechtian restagings of his work (dramatic readings, minimalist sets, and snippets of text)...
MENSEN EN EIEREN
Filip FrancisThis video is a document on a performance carried out by Filip Francis and a bunch of people dressed in white. They start, at an accelerating speed, throwing eggs on a wall. The viewer doesn’t see the eggs getting smashed, but only hears the crushing sound....
