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Alexis DestoopAnother little video-object originating from the same medical archive as "Quod", it is - quite literally - a looking into an eye's blind spot. Again, the source material actually represents area of the optical nerve in the iris...
RAOUL DE KEYSER
Jef CornelisJef Cornelis made this portrait of the famous Belgian painter Raoul De Keyser in 1971, on the occasion of his exhibition ‘Linnen dozen, sneden en zware kalklijnschilderijen’ (‘Linen boxes, cuts and heavy chalk line paintings') in the Plus-Kern Art centre in Ghent, Belgium...
DEFECT CHAIR
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte tries, rather unsuccessfully, to stand on a chair....
INLAND VOYAGES IN AN INLAND VOYAGES
Mira SandersNavigating. We rarely think about it, and yet for most of us it is an everyday activity. Internet, Google Maps, GPS, etcetera: who can do without them? Mira Sanders was deeply touched by Robert Louis Stevenson’s travel story An Inland Voyage (1878). In it Stevenson relates how with a friend he paddled in a canoe from the Belgian town of Antwerp to Pontoise in France...
Hervé Doyen, 2003-2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
HERVÉ DOYEN
Angel VergaraHervé Doyen explains how he, as the mayor of Jette, relates himself to art and culture. Filmed at the Atelier 340, Doyen states that a mayor should ensure that all ways of expression are given opportunity, without him interfering with what is actually being created....
CINDY CRAWFORD
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte cuts out the face from a poster of the American model Cindy Crawford to become Cindy himself, at least just for a brief moment. Part of the series 'Century of the 20th Sex'....
DE MATERIE: ARCHITECTUUR EN BELGIË
Aglaia KonradAglaia Konrad makes photos and videos of globalised urban spaces. She is particularly interested in worldwide urban development and pays special attention to urban programmes that have been sidelined -- projects that were never fully accepted or completed. With De Materie (The Matter or The Material), Konrad focuses on Belgium, the country where she lives...
AKAROVA/BAUGNIET, L'ENTRE-DEUX-GUERRES
Ana Torfs - Jurgen PersijnBased on eye-witness accounts and archival documents, this is a portrait of two important representatives of the Belgian avant-garde of the 1920s: Akarova, a dancer, and Marcel-Louis Baugniet, a painter and furniture designer. Using a black background and frontal light, the filming does not “correct” the reality of aging faces, but gives full play to memory...
L'ART BANLIEUE (OU LA BANLIEUE DE L'ART)
Jacques LizèneIn 1974 Lizène declares himself a part of the suburbs (banlieue) of art. performanceFor him, mediocrity is no refuge, but the hardest path. At the beginning of this video he warns us : “the artist of mediocrity has more rights to fame and money than the talented one who can be simply satisfied with his art”...
RUE DE L'AVENIR
Philippe Van DammeVan Damme’s main preoccupation seems to be time, or better: the visualisation of time. For ’Rue de l’Avenir’ he uses 45 photos of a straight track or (re)construction: the track for a new subway line in Molenbeek (Brussels). The editing moves up and down among this mutilated city-space: a witty study on time and the changing environment...
