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Historia de C, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
HISTORIA DE C
Angel VergaraA cinematic diptych shows brief fragments of landscapes, historical sites and classical drawings, sculptures and inscriptions. The video deals with Castelló’s history....
GOOD AFTERNOON GENTLEMEN !
Nicolas ProvostA cold, abstract 3D animation set against the warm, confused and dying synthetic voice of HAL 9000 (A Space Odyssey) creates a nightmare sensation....
NADINE
Jacques LennepThe artist talks about his holiday as a child when he became friends with Nadine. Old photographs of Nadine and Lennep are alternated with images of desolate places....
PAUL ET SES ORCHIDÉES
Jacques LennepPaul et ses orchidées is a sequel to Paul Van Bosstraeten, cultivateur d’orchidées. The work is part of the series Musée de l’homme, for which Lennep follows eight individuals who own a special collection or who have special habits.In this video Paul van Bosstraeten tells about his life and how he came to grow orchids...
CAPITAL BRASILIA
Robert SuermondtFilming a city always has a documentary value. But that is not what prevails in Suermondt’s work. What is striking about Brasilia is its ability to portray urban spaces as fictional ones. Streets and stations become sets on which accidental passers-by serve as actors performing a scene in a fiction film...
LEFT BALANCE / RIGHT BALANCE
Wim CatrysseWim Catrysse’s Left Balance/Right Balance (2002) is a two-channel video-installation. On the left screen we have a bird’s-eye view of a dark space with a crouching man, stripped to the waist, wearing shorts. It is as if the floor on which the man stands is continually moving—he reels constantly and tries to maintain his balance...
GIZEH-BLANKENBERGE
Ria PacquéeRia Pacquée returns to Egypt, showing some of the sights and sounds which follow the sea of tourists which descends on Egypt every year. Against a back-drop of familiar gods, stylised figures and hieroglyphs, a steady stream of behatted, sunglass-wearing figures take photographs and record video footage...
IN SEARCH OF WHITE
Ria PacquéeRia Pacquée takes the camera for a stroll around the three very different environments of city, mountain and sea. Cataloguing the white objects and images found, these three chapters isolate symbols and colourlessness, exploring absence and negativity in three different contexts. Each image evokes a range of associations and responses, whether emotional or intellectual...
