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IT’S QUICKER BY HEARSE · THE TALE OF THE PETITIONING HOUSEWIFE, THE PROTESTING SCHOOLBOY AND THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL STUDENT
Esther JohnsonWhen Madge Elliot complained about the announced closure of her local train station in Hawick, her mother told her to do something about it, and that’s just what she did...
Palais Royal, 1988, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
PALAIS ROYAL
Angel VergaraIn ’Palais Royal’ several people are posing in front of the Royal Palace in Brussels. The spectrum is diverse. Families with young children as well as three sailors are shown onscreen. In the meantime, traffic goes up and down Koningsstraat and Paleizenplein....
URINAL AND BREAD
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte puts slices of bread in the drains of a public toilet near a church and films the people leaving the toilet. Afterwards he picks the slices up and takes them home. Delmotte makes them into a ball and squeezes the ball empty in his mouth. This work is part of the series 'Rejected videos'...
A SILLY DANCE
Antonin De BemelsIn many ways ’A Silly Dance’ is a little brother to ’Idiot’s Brew’ (2002). De Bemels sets out with the same images and culinary references, but this time - as with his first videos - he also aims the camera more at himself, exploring his own body, his acts and rhythms, shapes and colours...
UN VOYAGE À TRAVERS N-DIMENSIONS
Mira SandersIn this travelogue I wonder by way of drawing a section of a photograph of Maastricht, what the concept dimension could mean. The film shows an investigation where a thinking and making is happening. I invite in the end the spectator to think further about the dimension in between the projection and the place where s/he sits....
OTOLITH I
The Otolith GroupIn 1963, the Russian Valentina Teresjkova was the first woman to orbit around the Earth. After her space flight, she became an icon for global feminism, and in India she shook hands with the feminist Anasuya Gyan-Chand. Historical events like this were the starting point for the cinematic essay ’Otolith I’, made by the Otolith Group in 2003...
WALLPAPER
Edith DekyndtA flower print on textile is extremely slowly moving in the wind. Is the a curtain? Where is it located? And what is happening behind, on the other side of it?...
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’...
