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Peter DownsbroughWith his videos Downsbrough creates natural portraits of urban environments. Everyday surroundings are observed, dissected and transformed into architectural illustrations, with a proper sense of order and chaos. In long, steady shots and travellings space is reduced and abstracted into minimalist constructions, simultaneously they assume identifiability...
DE STOEL LINKS VAN MIJ / LA CHAISE À MA GAUCHE
Jan VrommanA collection of twelve films that Vromman made in between 1982 and 2000, a part of 'De stoel waarop ik zit / La chaise sur laquelle je suis assis / The Chair I Sit Upon': - 01. Acte pur & brut- 02. Vierkant / 02. Carré / 02. Quadrangle- 03. De zege van de slang / 03. Le triomphe du serpent / 03. The triumph of the serpent- 04...
THE ASCENT OF MAN. PART I: SILENT RUNNING-APPENDIX
Jayce SalloumBlack-and-white images of a lake and a wood fill the screen. The viewer hears soft piano music, alternated with the sound of birds. Suddenly a man starts screaming. The music becomes alarming. Is there any danger?...
GOTT GOOD LORD
Hänzel & GretzelLook at her while she’s taking a shower, she has nice tits and… but is she really a she? Physical schizophrenia begins behind the mask....
INVITATION TO THE VOYAGE / L'INVITATION AU VOYAGE
Meggy RustamovaMeggy Rustamova’s film Invitation to the voyage / L’invitation au voyage (2014), which derives its title from a poem by Baudelaire, is a suggestive examination of the potential of photography to tell stories (or history) and to let fact and fiction move closer together until the fuzziness of the pixels creating each photo has also taken hold of the narrative...
CASSEURS D'IMAGES 1993-2004 (PART 1)
Michel François- ’Frigolith’ (extract): Tiny Styrofoam balls, blasted by an invisible force. They seem caught in the screen. The fixed frame prevents us from seeing what they’re in, where they’re coming from. The tight framing closes the image in order to open it. - ’Passage nuageux’: A shadow is cast over a desert-mountain...
ANESTHÉSIE
Hänzel & GretzelWith Doctor Terror, the anaesthesia always goes wrong. A trashy music video for the French electro-dada group Geins ’t Naït with whom Hänzel & Gretzel collaborated frequently....
TWISTED REALISM
Maria Iorio - Raphaël CuomoTwisted Realism takes cases in italian cinema in the period of post-war reconstruction and “economic miracle” as starting point to investigate different “aesthetics of reality” and the genealogy of this epoch marked by a re-organisation of capitalism, increasing consumption, new economical and cultural influences, a large national migration, and the emergence of new technol...
OVER THE TOP
Justine CappelleWe meet Floris in the empty and cold warehouse where he collects cardboard boxes and is organising them in a specific way. We discover the boxes start to form a pyramid. The boxes symbolise Floris’ ultimate desire: reaching the top. Literally the top since Floris wants to put his epitaph of mankind on top of the Gizeh pyramid...
