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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 61. SPARKY
Steve ReinkeThe original Apollo moon landings were not televised live. Instead a 17 second delay was instituted....
FERMETURE DE L'USINE RENAULT À VILVOORDE
Jan BucquoyFebruary 1997: Louis Schweitzer, CEO of French car company Renault, makes the irrevocable decision to close the big Renault factory in Vilvoorde (Belgium) within three months. The Renault workmen immediately begin a strike and carry out a programme of action in Belgium and in France...
THÉRÉSA PLANE
Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle Nyst'Thérésa Plane’ is an itinerary in the form of an infinity symbol shaped loop. At its point of intersection a frog who thinks that everything is pretty and Thérésa whose principle activity is to glide, meet. A love story between the frog and Thérésa ensues. All would have gone quite well, were it not for the intervention of destiny...
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Edith DekyndtAcousticians from the Polytechnic Faculty of Mons measured the precise resonant frequency of crystal glasses. They were reproduced by a frequency generator and played through a loudspeaker in the presence of each of the glasses. At this frequency, the sound energy is trapped in the glasses, which then start to vibrate. The vibration finally causes them to break...
UNTITLED (SHADOW)
Wim CatrysseIn Untitled (Shadow) (1998, single-channel-installation) the camera moves constantly in a circular corridor, like in Pursuit, an installation Catrysse made in the same year. The camera departs from standstill and starts to move faster and faster. Behind the endless bend the viewer notices an unidentifiable shadow that seems to be pursued by the camera...
O.M.A. REM KOOLHAAS
Jef CornelisAn interview with architect Rem Koolhaas in the building of his architectural firm OMA (’Office for metropolitan architecture’) in Rotterdam...
Leçon de Vie, 1995, Boris Lehman © the artist
LEÇON DE VIE
Boris LehmanThis film consists of poetic and philosophical variations on the theme of Paradise lost, or the loss of innocence necessary to reach a state of knowing. Here, a selection of men, women and children try to converse alone with nature, with water, the sky, flowers, trees, insects.....
FABRICA/BRIGHTON DAY 10
Claude CattelainDoing a video each day. Day 10: the really last images of the artist's camera before the sea broke it down....
CLOSED LETTER & NUMBER SERIES
Danny MatthysA hand is dialing all the numbers on a telephone, from 0 to 9. Another pair of hands is typing all the letters of the alphabet on an old typewriter....
