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14-18 (PEINTURES D'HISTOIRE)
Jacques LennepLennep visits the trenches of World War I and waves the Belgian flag....
MAN WALKING
Charley CaseIn ‘(Man walking)’ nothing but the feet and legs of a man are shown, inexhaustibly walking through the desert, mud, rivers, over rocks and mountains, asphalt and sidewalks and over a city rooftop, where he ultimately loses his balance and drops down to the ground. The sequence might be seen as a story, unfolding itself between life and death....
Two Girls Downtown Iowa, Summers Elaine, 1973. Courtesy the Artist
TWO GIRLS DOWNTOWN IOWA
Elaine SummersIn ‘Two Girls Downtown Iowa’ two women rush toward each other on a crowded pavement at the slowest of slow-motion speeds. Summer creates a remarkable conflation of kinetic effect and almost painterly moment-by-moment composition...
THE BRIDGE (2)
Messieurs DelmotteDelmotte hangs over a bridge near a canal and ‘goes to the toilet’. This work is part of the series 'Rejected videos'...
EUROPA VON WEITEM
Eva Meyer - Eran SchaerfThrough a number of conversations Europa von weitem relates the Levantine projection of Europe as it is found in the book by Jacqueline Kahanoff Vom Osten das Licht to other projections inside the continents as well as outside them...
11 INTONARUMORI
Didier Volckaert"One photograph, filmed, manipulated and edited in the camera. The Futuristic painter and composer Luigi Russolo can be regarded as the first Industrial-noise artist. The photograph used to make this entire film is one of the few existing traces of his work. Also the sound is original and the only recording known of the music. We see and hear Russolo and his 11 noise machines or Intonarumori...
US/THEM
Jan Dietvorst - Roy VillevoyeUs/them is a non-linear montage of images from two cultures, shown alongside one another and out of sync. The film's slow pace gives the viewer the feeling the he or she is actuallly present. The mythical character of a pre-industrial culture alternates with the modernity of the western world...
GEEL
Arnout HaubenOf the 35,000 inhabitants of the Flemish city of Geel, 550 are mentally ill. They are not confined to an institution, but live with families in the local population. This setup, which has a long history and is unique in the world, is the subject of Geel. Over the course of four seasons, the camera observes three adoptive families...
KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST GEEN KRITIEK? 4. WANNEER DE KUNST LICHTJES BEDWELMT
Jef CornelisPart of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art NOT Criticism?”, in this case : ’When art slightly intoxicates’. Museums are used as cultural oases in urban surroundings, where artworks are the object of selfless admiration...
