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BROKENDOWN DREAM
Messieurs DelmotteThe work of Messieurs Delmotte is situated somewhere between reality and the improbable, somewhere between playfulness and dilettantism. Delmotte, who is one person, despite his adopted plural title, is immediately distinguished (distinguishes himself) by his outward appearance. He could be regarded as a strange, updated version of a 19th-century dandy or even as a 21st-century Buster Keaton...
1937 [FIRST CHAPTER OF INSTALLATION, ENGLISH 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...
CHOCOLATE FACE
Messieurs DelmottePart of the series 'Century of the 20th Sex', this ultrashort film shows Messieurs Delmotte getting messy with some Nutella....
STATE OF DOGS
Peter Brosens‘State of Dogs’ is a parable, it tells the story of a Mongolian stray dog who didn’t want to become a man. "A dog who dies and who knows that he dies like a dog and who can say that he knows that he dies like a dog is a man." (Erich Fried) Baasar was a stray dog that was shot by a dog hunter somewhere in the backstreets of Ulan Bator on the first day of spring...
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE HOLY BLOOD
Koen TheysThe performers in this video are a group of naively dressed up biblical characters, taking part in one of Flanders’ processions of The Holy Blood. Theys captured the footage during a performance he organized in the Brussels art space ETABLISSEMENT D’EN FACE...
VIDÉO HEBDO 13
Claude CattelainThe masking tape wraps the camera and layer after layer the lens documents the decreasing light....
VIVE LA PEINTURE
Jacques LennepIn this short conceptual film by the Belgian pioneering video artist, Lennep films himself while he paints. We notice the canvas, the easel, the artist’s palette and his brushes, the artist in profile. However, on the white canvas no contours or colours appear...
FLOATING LIGHT
Frank Van HerckFor a large part of the twentieth century, and of the previous one, the goal of art has been suppress the points of escape, to wipe out straight lines starting from the eye of the spectator to disappear somewhere in the horizon, or what the horizon of the spectator should be: the heroic, with which he should identify, the horizon in perspective from which he should give his orders...
PARCOURS D'ARTISTE
Jacques LennepLennep makes a trip wading through a river. On his way he finds a kippered mackerel. Here his trip ends — he has found what he sought....
Boulevard d'Ypres / Ieperlaan, Sarah Vanagt, 2010 © the artist & producer
BOULEVARD D'YPRES / IEPERLAAN
Sarah VanagtThe Boulevard d’Ypres in Brussels, with its large and colourful Mediterranean stores, offers glimpses of the Tales of the Thousand and One Nights. Urban development is now driving out these shops selling couscous, dates and olives. It is this turning point in the history of her own street that Vanagt uses as a starting point for a ’microhistorical experiment’...
