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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...

LE ROMAN DE FAUVEL

Joëlle de La Casinière
A musical video book. A screen adaptation of manuscript ’Fr. 146’ at the Bibliothèque Nationale of France. A work devised, written and produced at home by de la Casinière on her personal computer...

VIDÉO HEBDO 27

Claude Cattelain
A shutter is repeatedly opened and closed.  ...

A ROLE TO PLAY

Esther Johnson
a ROLE to PLAY brings together the lived experiences and dreams of Bolsover residents, one of the most deprived towns in the middle of England...

FEUILLETON - THE SEVEN CAPITAL SINS

Angel Vergara
Feuilleton - The seven capital sins is the main video installation realised by Angel Vergara for the Belgian pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale...
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VIDÉO-FIL

Jacques Lennep
In his ‘relational’ video work Lennep investigates into art as an idiom and a structure; how to perceive art and the relationship between art and society. ‘Vidéo-fil’ is a recording of a performance. During a first act Lennep draws an uninterrupted, squiggly line on his face, with a black felt-tip, after which he envelops his head with tape...

A STRANGE NEW BEAUTY

Shelly Silver
A disturbing intrusion into the luxurious homes of Silicon Valley. Using an aggressive soundtrack and a full frame often fractured into small rectangles covered by text, Silver reveals a deafening violence behind the glittering beauty and deceptively calm of this suburban landscape...

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...
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DOCUMENT F098

Vidéoconférence
Vidéoconférence is a research team made up of video makers and historians. Their purpose is the recovery, restoration and display of documents that link up poetical truth with beauty. ’Document F098’ is the last reel of rushes shot by a Russian journalist during autumn/winter of 1942...
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