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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 67. ASSPLAY
Steve ReinkeRecently my psychiatrist dismantled his practice in favour of becoming a baker. I hoped to get the brown leather couch. Instead he gave me the rough notes for a paper he’d been thinking of working on “Assplay: Anal Eroticism as Transformative Agent in Disney’s Pinocchio” in hope I would complete it....
DIVE INTO MANKIND
Ria PacquéeFrom East to West Ria Pacquée observes and films people in and on the water: in and on seas, oceans, rivers and lakes. From a distance she zooms in on actions and rituals performed in and around the water. The recordings range from explicitly religious activities – such as bathing in the Ganges or a baptismal ceremony – to bathing purely for relaxation and pleasure...
1937 [INSTALLATION, FRENCH VERSION]
Nora Martirosyan"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...
SITE, EEN TOPOGRAFISCH PORTRET
An van. Dienderen"What’s identity? To what extent does origin determine the work of an artist? An van. Dienderen analyses the matter by means of a visual anthropological portrait of José Besprosvany. This choreographer of Mexican-Jewish-Slavic origins tests out his multiple identity through the personal trajectory of his work...
Extensions, Hans Op de Beeck, 2009. Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano – Beijing – Le Moulin; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; Galerie Ron Mandos, Rotterdam – Amsterdam
EXTENSIONS
Hans Op de BeeckIn terms of content, the animated film ‘Extensions’ deals with cultural and subcultural rituals, science and technology as extensions of the human body, and as the physical manifestation of an unfailing belief in progress, which is both redemptive and ethically problematic. The artist defines the extension of the body in very broad terms...
EVEN THE PROMPTER DIES
Erik Bünger - Manuel SaizEven The Prompter Dies is an experimental video that investigates the power of speech over images. Multiple voices – all belonging to the two filmmakers – wrestle for mastery over the footage, from various positions inside and outside the frame...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 65. MURIEL
Steve ReinkeI remember when he took me to the fair. I put on ribbons and my prettiest dress....
COMPTER JUSQU'À 10 EN REGARDANT L'OBJECTIF
Claude CattelainWhile driving a car on highway Cattelain tries to count up to 10 by looking at the camera objective....
VICTOR BOURGEOIS
Jef CornelisAn exhibition devoted to Victor Bourgeois was organized in 1971 by the archives of modern architecture at the National Higher Institute for Architecture and the Visual Arts in Brussels. This film is a presentation of that exhibition. Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Titles. 00’15" Presentation...
