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ACM, THE WHOLE STORY
Els Dietvorst‘ACM, The Whole Story’ is a video project that portrays a man’s life over six years. The man is called ACM, nickname for Art-Coeur-Merci (Art-Heart-Thank you). ACM has been homeless, as society would call it, for about five years. ACM is charming and clever. He made his home on wastelands, on the edge of society, surviving with what we throw away...
Mouche, 2004, Bigas Luna © the artist
WHITE BALL
Claude CattelainImpulsive video sequences, not without a sense of humour, at times evoking an actual spatial escapism or on other occasions recording coincidental or purposeful emotional turning points. ‘White Ball’ shows a passage of one state of mind to another through direct amazement. No time to think or to lament. In his work Claude Cattelain tries to grasp the essence in the volatile...
CORBION, BELGIUM, WHERE RIMBAUD AND VERLAINE LIVED TOGETHER IN THE WOODS
Anne-Mie Van KerckhovenWhen visiting Corbion near the French-Belgian border, where the ruins still could be seen tucked away in the forest, of the little cottage where French poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud lived together for a short while 100 years earlier, Van Kerckhoven asked Danny Devos to lay down naked on his stomach with his legs open, a piece of wood tied between his ankles, his hands tied behind his back...
AND TO
Peter DownsbroughWe don't know where we are. We're in a car, looking at other cars, roads, structures, tunnels – wasteland. Position? The Global Positioning System informs us, with its horde of satellites, orbiting Earth. Guiding us with its synthesised voice, transporting us, 'translating' us. Telling us what to do...
TECHNOCALYPS - DEEL 2: PREPARING FOR THE SINGULARITY
Frank TheysTechnocalyps is a 3 part documentary about ‘transhumanism’, an ideology assuming that we approach an era where humans, as we know them, are no longer the driving force of civilization. All technological developments seem to converge to one main goal: to overcome humanity, to try and create something transhuman...
BRUNELLESCHI’S MIRROR
Justin BennettIn Brunelleschi’s Mirror we find ourselves in the darkness, waiting for a glimpse of the world outside...
SPIRITUAL ANIMAL KINGDOM
Steve Reinke‘Spiritual Animal Kingdom’ is Steve Reinke’s alternative to a television show. It has comedy skits, musical interludes, and little animated aphorisms that act as commercials or bumpers. Reinke parodies, analyses and plays out the narratives and imagery employed in mass culture – while never appearing to take any of it seriously...
