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YELLOW FLOWERS

Messieurs Delmotte
On a sunny day, Messieurs Delmotte lies down in a field of dandelions. When he gets up again, his body is imprinted in the flower field. This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 1...

VIDÉO HEBDO 23

Claude Cattelain
With a snorkel on his mouth Cattelain rolls himself with tapes until he can stand it....

A GLASS OF WATER ON THE BEACH

Charley Case
Case films in close-up a glass of water and edits the ambient sound recorded on the seaside....
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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 14. JOKE (VERSION TWO)

Steve Reinke
I never threw all the toys from my crib for the fun of having them returned to me....
Deux Corps Amoureux, 2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist Deux Corps Amoureux, 2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

DEUX CORPS AMOUREUX

Angel Vergara
Two bodies are standing against a wall, hidden behind a white canvas. While they are embracing and kissing each other, they are drawing with charcoal on the wall. A white canvas often turns up in Vergara’s work, but instead of one, it now hides two bodies...

VITA NOVA

Vincent Meessen
In his famous essay Mythologies (1957), Roland Barthes demystified the French colonial imperialism by means of a photograph that appeared on the cover of Paris-Match. This picture, that became an icon of modern criticism, shows a colonial cadet on guard.Vita Nova unveils the biographical ghost underneath the surface of this mythical picture...
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PANIQUE AU VILLAGE, ÉPISODE 5 : LISE ET JAN

Stéphane Aubier - Vincent Patar
Two musical lowlifes arrive in the village, and they turn the place upside down, much to the displeasure of its inhabitants, who consequently show them to the door; however to no avail...
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KITSCH GILLO DORFLES

Jef Cornelis
The opening shot of this short film from the series Zoeklicht (Search light) shows the cover of the book Kitsch - An anthology of bad taste (first published in Italian in 1968, translated in English in 1970) by the Italian art critic, painter and philosopher Gillo Dorfles (°1910)...

CONTAINER 09: OVER ROES

Jef Cornelis
A fragment from Aldoux Huxley‘s ’The Doors of Perception’ is the starting-point for a reflection on intoxication. Intoxication might be perceived as one of the universal longings of mankind. The Romantic tradition of Baudelaire talks of “artificial paradises”, but outside the Western society intoxication has a much more ambivalent function than escapism alone...