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SPEECH FOR A MELTING STATUE
Anne Reijniers - Paul Shemisi Betutua - Nizar Saleh Mohamedali - Rob JacobsIn June 2020, thousands of people took to the streets in Brussels to make a fist against police brutality and institutional racism in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. For a moment, it seemed that some demonstrators would take down the statue of colonial king Leopold II in a nearby square...
Die Macht der Gefühle, Alexander Kluge, 1984. copyright
DIE MACHT DER GEFÜHLE
Alexander KlugeAn organic and densely layered meditation on the intangible, irrational mechanism of human emotion. Die Macht der Gefühle (The Power of Emotion) explores how chance and destiny determine our emotions and explains that emotion isn't to be confused with sentimentality. Emotion is ancient and more powerful than any art form...
11DE BIËNNALE MIDDELHEIM ANTWERPEN, 6 JUNI - 3 OKT. '71
Jef CornelisTwo programs on the 11th Middelheim Sculpture Biennial in 1971. 07.06.1971 – 4’55 Official opening of the Biennal. Pictures of sculptures, mainly American and Dutch. The curator of the Dutch section, Eugène Terwind, has installed sculptures in a garden created for the occasion by Dutch artists, and that looks like an urban district. 15.06...
STAGING SILENCE (3)
Hans Op de BeeckStaging Silence (3) is the third and final installment in a series of autonomous art films, all realised according to the same principles. In the three films, two pairs of anonymous hands construct and deconstruct fictional interiors and landscapes on a mini film set of just three square meters in size...
QUELQUES SÉQUENCES D'ART SANS TALENT
Jacques Lizène‘Quelques sequences d’art sans talent’ (‘Some sequences of untalented art’) was completely recorded at the studios of the Belgian-French network RTBF, as an edition of the program Vidéographie(s)’ that focused on video art during the 1976 to 1986 period...
LETTRE D'UN CINÉASTE À SA FILLE
Eric Pauwels‘Lettre d’un cinéaste à sa fille’ is a playful, free and personal film in the form of a letter, a film interwoven with a thousand stories knit together with different textures, a book of images where a filmmaker shows the images and the stories he wants to share....
A FILM
Marie José BurkiIn her video works, the Swiss artist and photographer Marie José Burki explores how the visible can be classified, formatted and categorized. Burki sets out from observation and plays with audiovisual codes. The arbitrarily entitled A film wants and doesn’t want to be ‘a film’. Conceived deliberately for a projection room — i.e...
PERTH+6HRS
Wendy MorrisPerth+6hrs is a personal reflection on the transience of family, on the fleetingness of childhood, and on the inevitable separations as children grow up and move away. The objects in the film are made by the son of the filmmaker. The film is created out of a single drawing....
LES BALTUS AU CIRQUE
Stéphane AubierThe Baltus Family - father, mother and two sons - leaves in a nice villa in the countryside. Suddenly, a circus settles close by, so they decide to go there. They enjoy the show, but it is too long. They want to leave but the evil clowns - the voice is provided by Benoît Poelvoorde - refuses to let them go and keeps them busy with his continuous tricks...
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’...
