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EVERYBODY LOVES NOTHING (EMPATHIC EXERCIZES)
Steve ReinkeReinke completed ‘Everbody Loves Nothing’ during his stay as an artist-in-residence at Video In in Vancouver. For this film, Reinke used archival footage from the Prelinger Archive in New York. The seven episodes are linked thematically. Each one takes an archival clip and inserts a narrator who, while speaking in the first person, moves smoothly between the first and third....
ORLANDO'S BOOK
Wendy MorrisAt the centre of this film is a book of engravings mentioned in Agnes’ Tales. Orlando, the brother of Agnes, was awarded the book as a schoolboy in the mid-1860s for being 'The Boy Most Liked by his School fellows’. It is a book of engravings and poems about the English countryside and it shows a rather idealized view of English farm life...
QUARTET
Wim CatrysseIn Wim Catrysse’s Quartet (2002), a single-channel installation, we see four men bending over. The camera films them from a bird’s-eye view. The men are inside a dark space and seem to find it hard to keep their balance on the moving floor. Though the characters constantly move slightly, they seem frozen, waiting in relation to each other...
AU BALCON DE TITI
Yasmina BenariAfter 11 years in jail and a life spent hoping to see a free and fairly ruled Egypt, Titi alias Albert Arrié witnesses 2011 riots from his own balcony. He is 81. The film follows Titi over the course of two years, as hope turns to dust and present meets the past. At Titi's Balcony is a voyage, oscillating between inner and outer worlds...
VIDÉO HEBDO 13
Claude CattelainThe masking tape wraps the camera and layer after layer the lens documents the decreasing light....
LA VOIX DES SANS-PAPIERS
Charley CaseImmigrants from different countries in a confession box tell how their dreams and expectations were thwarted when they came up against the reality they found when they arrived in France....
"LIFE ON THE EDGE" RADIO LINE
Beatrijs AlbersIn 1999 and 2000 Beatrijs Albers travels to the arid American desert on the borders of California, Nevada and Arizona. There she looks for the ways in which man draws out space for himself and takes political, architectural and mental ownership. The title refers to the name of an American local religious radiostation...
KISSY SUZUKI SUCK
Alison MurrayInfluenced by Madonna, physical theatre and punk, Murray assaults stereotypes around female sexuality, violence and pornography. This vibrant, textured slice of night draws on research into the experiences of two trash-blonde sex workers talking dirty....
