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QUARTET

Wim Catrysse
In 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...

BUILDING STORIES #001 (THAT DISTANT PIECE OF MINE)

Els Opsomer
Building Stories # 001 [That Distant Piece Of Mine] is a 16mm film recorded in Senegal; reportedly the most accessible West African country, a tourist destination with a renowned hospitality. Far from the "clichés" shows this film a poetic stroll through a topical Senegal...

SLAVE UNIT

Cel Crabeels
‘Slave unit’ is a notion which indicates the status of network equipment. In photography it denotes the power of flash installations; a distinction is always made between dominant and subjected. In the video by Cel Crabeels the idea is applied to a setting with two dancers, a director, the camera, video equipment, the stage and the audience...

PLACE IS WHERE THE MIND IS

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
An atmospheric typecast of the life in and around the artist initiative ‘Club Moral’, an association that focused on extreme forms of art for about seven years. The movie is based on portraits of people in and around the club....

SPAZIERGAENGER MIT HUND - SONSBEEK 86

Jef Cornelis
A report on the art manifestation of Sonsbeek 86, falling back on the sense of security of the park. These natural surroundings had an atmosphere not unlike that of a museum. Some of the works had been positioned ’out in the open’ in the park. Most of the objects, however, could be considered in specifically designed glass pavilions...

PROFIEL VAN DE ARCHITECT

Jef Cornelis

LA COULEUR DE LA BRIQUE

Bie Michels
The 485 km long Ikopa river passes through Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. In the middle of the wide river there is what looks like a miniature town, right in the middle of the metropolis. Here, on a manufacturing site called La Digue, the inhabitants use the river mud to make bricks. Elsewhere in the city and in the countryside there are similar sites...

Pommier en fleurs, 1987 Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist(s) & producer(s)

PEINTURES FILMIQUES

Angel Vergara
’Peintures filmiques’ is a series of short impressions of the artist’s everyday life, with the content radically condensed. The artist films events which take place in his immediate surroundings. The pace of many recordings is forced, the montage is rapid and sound is missing. The view is kaleidoscopic, the effect is hallucinatory...

WHAT'S DONE, EVIL'S DONE

Messieurs Delmotte
"This is not a performance and even less a good idea." Mystery artist Messieurs Delmotte performs silent-movie hijinks with disregard for dignity and limb. In ’Ce qui est fait, le mal est fait’, the city merely provides a milieu for absurd actions performed alone before the camera...

RUE FRANCIS

François Vogel
From the balcony of an apartment at the Parisian rue Francis a camera embodies the fixed centre of a visual journey: an immobile eye which, due to variable focus, is mobile at the same time. The result is a whirlwind of perspectives, edited in a way that is not apparently subject to rhyme or reason...