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TERRE-ÎLE
Dino Secchi - Free3 - Shedar Secchi - Charley CaseA town in Belgium disappears over the horizon after a flood. In this way nature rebels against human greed....
] AND HERE
Peter Downsbrough]AND HERE is a video project filmed in North Kent’s urban and industrial environment. It captures images from Kentish town centres to the container transport hub on the Isle of Grain, to the Isle of Sheppey’s caravans, etc...
DE KUNSTENAARS VLAKBIJ / LES ARTISTES À CÔTÉ
Jan Vromman“De Kunstenaars Vlakbij” (“The artists nearby”) is a series of portraits of unknown artists, produced on the occasion of the exhibition “De Eerste Trede” (“The First Stile”) at Argos Centre for Art & Media (2003). The starting point of this film was the wonderment about the basic idea that so many people are occupied with art in a serious manner...
LEEDSTAPE
Cel CrabeelsThe people that move through Leeds seem to have a purpose, they are going somewhere. The artist chose not to. He carried out interventions at various times and places in the public space of the city. They became slightly disturbing when obstructing the natural flow of people, things and situations...
Aznar, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
AZNAR
Angel VergaraJosé Maria Aznar was prime minister between 1996 and 2004. Here episodes from his years in power are shown in black and white. Vergara’s act of painting emphasizes and challenges the content of the documentary images. He traces the cinematic images with his brush, while the hand he is painting with moves between the images and a glass screen...
FAVORITKA
Alina ZhdanovaEvery time memories are thought back on, they get rewritten into new memories over and over. The experiences that get recalled for hundreds and thousands of times, turn into beliefs. Recalling and saving the memories, which get renewed and rewritten, one single line of memories could be followed. The theme of work is “Recalling”...
TORENS
Anne-Mie Van KerckhovenA super8-film about people, towers and monoliths, signs. The work was initially shown as a videoloop on VHS in the exhibition ‘The O-option and the number 8’ in Montevideo gallery in Antwerp in 1988....
FRÄNZ ÜND KOFÖN [SERIAL]
Messieurs Delmotte“My work is not a performance – and actually even less of a good idea.” The videos by Messieurs – or Monsieur - Delmotte spare nothing or no one and they trivialize anything that comes within his reach, including himself. His works are not self-portraits, nor transpositions of the author in one or more imaginary characters...
ROSAS DANST ROSAS
Thierry De MeyThierry De Mey filmed Rosas danst Rosas in the former technical school of architect Henry Van de Velde in Leuven. The film version is much shorter than the show itself. In his film Thierry De Mey opts for a heavily "inter-cut" version in which, apart from the cast of four dancers from 1995 and 1996, he also has all the other performers from the long history of the show dance along...
HIT HIM ON THE HEAD WITH A HARD HEAVY HAMMER
Rebecca Jane ArthurHit Him on the Head with a Hard, Heavy Hammer departs from the handwritten memoir of the filmmaker’s father and his experience of displacement during wartime. Referring to the notion Thomas Hardy termed ‘The Self-Unseeing’ in his eponymous 1901 poem, the film returns to childhood and the matters that harden us...
