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WE CAME TO DANCE
Didier VolckaertWorld Exhibitions are twilight zones in which actual knowledge about the world and exoticism go together with sexual projection and frustration. Till deep into the 20th century, the then superpowers used "Human Zoos" to spread the worldview that “we” are part of civilization, whereas there are others who are not...
ASS DANCE
Messieurs DelmotteA short, though provocative, video where the camera shoots a naked body lying on a red surface. The body moves on the beat of the music while the viewer can read a text on the back of the actor....
VIDÉO HEBDO 13
Claude CattelainThe masking tape wraps the camera and layer after layer the lens documents the decreasing light....
LE ROBOT
Jacques Louis NystThe robot in 'Le Robot’ is as a matter of fact a broken spring from the Nysts’ bed. Here it appears as a giant that a hand attempts to flatten, but ends up releasing. As the “robot” breaks free, we hear a bird singing. 'Le Robot’ is one of Jacques-Louis Nyst’s earlier experiences with the medium...
MAGNUM BEGYNASIUM BRUXELLENSE PART 2/2
Boris Lehman‘Magnum Begynasium Bruxellense’ is a living chronicle of the inhabitants of the Béguinage area of Brussels, so named because it is located over the site of the old béguinage. Conceived of as an encyclopaedic inventory, the film is composed of around 30 chapters interlinked like so many pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, or an anthill of numerous and overlapping galaxies...
PIC PIC ANDRÉ SHOOW 4 MOINS 1
Stéphane Aubier - Vincent PatarA compilation of completely mad animation films, in the particularly characteristic low-fi style of the genius of animation Stéphane Abier. In ’Le mauvais cheval’ (’The Bad Horse’) cowboy Pic Pic tries to find gold in a river, but the horse André prefers to waterski behind the kite he made himself...
DANIEL BUREN
Jef CornelisGeorges Adé (1936-1992) interviews the French artist Daniel Buren (°1938) at the occasion of his solo exhibition – simply entitled Buren (11 May - 5 June, 1971) – in front of the Wide White Space Gallery in Antwerp. As in his previous show with the same title (17 January - 6 February, 1969), Buren applied his renowned motif, namely the alternation of white and coloured 8...
A WEEKEND WITH MONSIEUR MAGRITTE, PART 2 SUNDAY
Jef CornelisThe second part of a Magritte portrait, compiled from fragments of amateur films Magritte made himself on super-8 and 8mm, with home images of his family and circle of friends, outings and holidays. ’ Original broadcast date: 20/03/1997...
GIRLS AND PHILOSOPHERS
Koen TheysVideo installation for two projectors. A diptych or triptych – depending on how you look at it. ’Girls and Philosophers’ sets out from two screens. Together they make out a diptych, with directly facing panels. In between, however, there is also the area which is marked off by the screens, where the spectators move about...
