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SURFACE NOISE
Inneke Van Waeyenberghe'Surface noise’ is about being constantly on the surface of something or someone when one doesn’t know intimacy, when one keeps forgetting intimacy and the body and is consequently forced to discover it over and over again. It’s about the relationship between intimacy and the not knowing of body language and body codes...
THE BREATHING LESSON
Dora GarcíaAlthough Dora Garcia (°1965, Valladolid, Spain) produces work that is mostly performative and installation-based, video is used as a means to question the boundaries between representation and reality. The artist engages herself with the question of what is real and what is fiction, and thus visitors become protagonists in a fiction- sometimes knowingly, sometimes not...
STANDING OVATION
Bernard GigounonThe original soundtrack of a clip excerpted from Jean Renoir’s short film ‘Une partie de campagne’ (1936) picturing a river under heavy rain has been switched. Applauses in a concert hall are here recalling the sound of the rain. The video was originally edited as part of an in-situ installation during a concert by Martha Argerich at the Royal Music Academy...
ARCHIPELS NITRATE
Claudio Pazienza"Intimate and personal portrait of the Royal Belgian Cinémathèque (recently renovated and renamed Cinematek). And on that screen, flashes of the world, an idea of History, of beauty. On that screen, a congruent portion of humanity. I am what I have seen, said Matisse. But all images do not remain intact. And even less so, the self image. Time permeates them, spoils, martyrises them...
POMMES D'AMOUR
Nicolas ProvostProvost’s film and video installations search for the dark beauty in every-day topics. Even though the work seems gloomy and tragic, humour and sarcasm are never far off....
DÉLIRIUM VIDÉO 8
Jacques LennepFinal part in this series of short sketches, that often consist of recordings of performances. Somewhere in between slapstick, conceptual performance and philosophy, Lennep pays in between the lines homage to well-known and very influential artists of the 20th century. In this part he comments also on the state of Belgium performing with a black rooster (symbol of Wallonia)....
MIC MAC: AH, VOUS VOILÀ ELVIS POMPILIO! [CHAPELIER]
Claudio PazienzaThe magazine Mic Mac, conceived by RTBF and ARTE, offers a perspective on the present as it is confided to artists. Current events are rendered with a non-journalist, personal approach. Each of the sequences is an encounter in a polling booth with a Belgian personality. The texts are projected onto a prompter, objects, sounds are offered to the guest as a cause for ironic exposure....
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 90. VIDEO FOR INTELLECTUALS
Steve ReinkeSometimes it appears we are reaching a period where our senses and minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation....
NA ALLE VLEES: PORTRET VAN EEN WERKWIJZE (JACQ VOGELAAR)
Jef CornelisA portrait of the Dutch author and essay writer Jacq Firmin Vogelaar (1944), on the occasion of his ’All Meat’ (1980), a book aiming at nothing less than a thorough deconstruction of recognizable reality in order to set up a new construction with the debris. Vogelaar discusses the philosophy of the fragment, utopia, meat, (linguistic) machines, Francis Bacon...
