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HABITER LES FISSURES
Miléna DesseIn Brussels, a former factory bears witness to an intense and now bygone industrial era. Today, it is home to spontaneous flora that has found its way into the cracks in the bricks and concrete, as well as to the people who live there and create alternatives to what this city has to offer...
JOHAN
Sven Augustijnen’Johan’ is a purely documentary film that shows the therapy undergone by a patient suffering from aphasia. Aphasia is an illness that affects the language centres of the brain and that can be generated by, amongst other things, a brain-tumour or -haemorrhage...
DE KUS #4
Frank TheysThe Visible Human Project was started in the nineties by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) when digital imaging of the human body became possible in a technical sense. It was the complete anatomical database of a male cadaver that first appeared on the Web, consisting of cross-sectional slices of the body at one millimetre intervals. Shortly after a female version was published...
MAQUILLAGE DE YVES SOMVILLE
Jacques LennepVideo, apart from photography and holography, was but one of the media Lennep made use of during the 1970s, as he was adding on to his ‘museum of men’. His human models were derived from all layers of the populations, but they shared a common obsession for collecting things or, at the very, least an unusual passion...
The Roof, James Nares, 1975. Courtesy the Artist and Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
THE ROOF
James NaresThe precariousness yet simplicity of the black and white video ‘Roof’ shows Nares encased at the neck by a swinging wooden plank that seems to whip his unseen body over the edge of a roof. By employing an illusionist trick with his camera, Nares’ seemingly disembodied head drifts eerily through lower Manhattan...
FRIDAY FISHDAY
Jan BucquoyThe fifth part of The sex life of the Belgians tells the story of a man who refuses to or who cannot make love to women who smell strongly of fish. Returning to his native village Harelbeke and then to Ostend, film maker Bucquoy reflects on his aims as an artist and film director. “I’m fed up with making films for some hundred people. This time we’re going to be real machos...
ANDY - NOVEMBER 8, 1996
Steve Reinke‘Andy’ is a combination of a documentary portrait and amateur porn video. As Andy masturbates in his beautiful apartment, he describes in voice-over the process of decorating his house....
LE CYGNE ET SON IMAGE
Jacques Louis NystThe title in 'Le cygne et son image’ soon becomes the white canvas on which Nyst has drawn what appears at first as a tail or a path. The screen is horizontally divided in two, the lower part occupied by the canvas and the upper by Nyst’s naked body. When the swan the title refers to appears, it may seem that it is its own image that it contemplates on the white surface...
Arterim, 2003, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
ARTERIM
Angel VergaraArterim depicts a meeting in Brussels-South Railway Station, between Vergara dressed up as Jan Hoet, and ’Eugène, director of Arterim’. Vergara performs as Jan Hoet, just arrived from Paris, a caricature on the enthusiasm that characterizes his speech. The belief in art translates itself here into the belief that art can play an innovative part in an economic context...
