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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 61. SPARKY

Steve Reinke
The original Apollo moon landings were not televised live. Instead a 17 second delay was instituted....

TROIS QUARTS TEMPS, TENTATIVE DE DESCRIPTION D'UN PROJET IN SITU

Thomas Bernardet - Laurent Pichaud
Trois Quarts Temps’ (‘Three Quarter Time’) is a film about a choreography by Laurent Pichaud, ‘référentiel bondissant, pièce pour gymnase et gradins’, which is a work-specific site designed to be performed in type C gymnasiums...

INTERN CABINE

Jan De Cock
This work is part of the installation Vertigo or the area of free catalogues, a three-dimensional mise-en-scène consisting of videos and construction materials the artist created in the autumn of 1999 at Argos. Central in the installation there is the site of Waterloo and the monument with the lion, a symbol-laden place that refers to loss, defeat and death...

PANAMARENKO: PORTRAIT EN SON ABSENCE

Claudio Pazienza
One of a number of possible portraits of The sculptor from Antwerp withdrawn from a film project about his person. From that moment on, how is it possible to make a portrait, if the main person concerned is not there? The author resorts to ostriches, to archives, special effects, to evoke the world of Panamarenko....

ADIEU TRISTESSE

Robert Cash
On the face of it Adieu Tristesse is a black comedy which takes as its subject the act of ’sawing-the-lady-in-half’. We are comforted by our familiarity with this illusion and are sure all will be well in the end. Meanwhile the piece operates on another symbolic level in so far as it alludes to trick effects employed in early cinematography to heighten suspense and theatricality...

SCHORT

Jozef Somerlinck
A 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....

TWO HANDS

Fabio Wuytack
Two Palestinian hands. In Palestine there are only four heart surgeons. Mohammed Tamim is one of them. In 2003 he came to Belgium to specialize in paediatric surgery. The second Intifada has turned Mohammed into a war surgeon. Each day he fights his own battle, trying to achieve his dream. There are times when he works in the operating room for seven days a week...

DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
In ‘Dance of the 7 Veils’, a fragment of Vanrunxt’s choreography ‘Sur scène’, the dancer performs his solo in a park in Schilde. Van Kerckhoven films the six minutes of choreography in one take. For three successive days, at six in the morning, at noon and at six in the evening, this scenario is repeated. These three takes are superimposed...

RECORD: I LOVE YOU

Eva Meyer - Eran Schaerf
A dislocating experiment realised at Amsterdam’s cultural centre Brakke Grond for the exhibition ’Smooth Space’. The video shows a dancing couple indirectly through round mirrors mounted on different heights onto the ceiling. The camera, held by the male dancer, is pointed upwards to film himself and his partner...

VEGETABLES ARE VEGETABLES

Messieurs Delmotte
A short video performance where, against a background of an impressive landscape, sequentially a zucchini, a leek and a carrot – which are hung in front of the camera – are chopped in two by Messieurs Delmotte. This work is part of the series Unidentified Emoticon  ...