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JUMPY CHICKEN

Messieurs Delmotte
This time the title is particularly ironic as the chicken is not actually jumping. Two strings are attached to its legs, which are used to pull the chicken away. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...

HOMMAGE À MICHEL BONNEMAISON

Joëlle de La Casinière
On November 6th 2006, his birthday, and 7 months after his death, a gathering of his friends paid tribute to Michel Bonnemaison at the SCAM (Société Civile des Auteurs Multimédia) in Paris...

3 BLOCS

Claude Cattelain
Holding three blocks against a wall with my head....

LOST IN TIME / MURCOF

Patrick Bernatchez - Murcof
The soundtrack by Murcof to Patrick Bernatchez's “Lost in Time” film, a sound project that is part of the explorations around Bach's “Goldberg Variations” initiated in Berlin in 2010...
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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 02. FAMILY TREE

Steve Reinke
Lately I’ve had reason to prepare a list of my sexual partners. Though I am young, the list is fairly substantial....
Rue foire, 1987-1989 Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist(s) & producer(s) Rue foire, 1987-1989 Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist(s) & producer(s)

FILMS ACTIONS

Angel Vergara
These pieces are recordings of Angel Vergara’s early demonstrations, the first time they have been shot. There were already photos before. Here for the first time, he films original photographs with a super8 camera...
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JACK THE DRIPPER (PSYCHOPAINTER)

Pascal Bernier
Three short video sketches made with minimal means and based on samples from various media (mainly the internet and pop music), creating a form of ‘garage- video’, with no other ambition, according to Bernier himself, than the generation of specific emotions which might also pop up when listening to loud rock music or watching pornographic films...

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Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel Bonnemaison
The famous act of the "poète dans une machine à laver" (the poet in a washing machine). Short promotional film in comical mode for a (back then) very recently finished book by Joëlle de La Casinière, Population active. Excerpts of it are read in different settings, accompanied by the beautiful and enchanting music of the "Fire-Stone" mantra....

SUN IN YOUR HEAD

Wolf Vostell
'Sun in your Head' (1963, Fluxus Film Anthology, Fluxfilm no. 23) images' have been directly captured from a television screen with a film camera. The film upsets the canon of the experimental film which then prevailed. The film is neither personal nor abstract, but refers to something entirely impersonal like a television programme...
Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist

SILENT LETTER 27042008

Mira Sanders
The first ’Silent Letter’ was written on April 24th, 2008. Officials are obstrucing passing people: they are not allowed to walk across a public square. However, an introductory note by the artist is dated 2007...