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Le mecanisme secret qui guide le créateur dans son aventure périlleuse, 2006, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
LE MÉCANISME SECRET QUI GUIDE LE CRÉATEUR DANS SON AVENTURE PÉRILLEUSE
Angel VergaraWhile we are hearing Pablo Picasso and Henri-Georges Clouzot in his film Le mystère de Picasso – the title paraphrases his voice-over – Vergara is, as is alter ego Straatman, applying similar strategies, like in Peinture radiophoniqe numéro 1 of 2005: the images have been bleached by means of a digital effect, and while drawing, Straatman is inspired by listening to a me...
WALKER, IUT DE CHIMIE TOULOUSE LE MIRAIL
Thomas Bernardet - Florent MulotThis film is a visit to the Institut Universitaire de Chimie (chemistry polytechnic school) of Toulouse, near the site of AZF, a chemical factory which exploded in September 2001. The building was partly destroyed by the explosion and abruptly evacuated. It is now abandoned, but we are not its first visitors since the catastrophe....
UNIDENTIFIED AIR
Messieurs DelmotteA short video performance where we see Messieurs Delmotte, standing in front of a house, holding an inflatable dolphin in his arms. After a few seconds, an electrical pump starts to inflate the plastic animal. This work is part of the series Unidentified Emoticon...
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Shelly Silver"’The world will devour you....’ A group of cops laugh and talk, while scanning the street for suspicious activity. An extreme close-up of a sensuously exposed neck; a soft pink fleshy ear turns to reveal an inquisitive hostile eye.... 1 is a short tape about longing, threat, power and seduction, with the camera functioning in turn, as aggressor, mediator and confessor...
LA MORT DE VOS ENFANTS
Hänzel & GretzelA sound and video collage with texts on image where Hänzel & Gretzel provocatively addresses the theme of babies abuses. Permeated of a black humour, the video is a cynic and odd statement on the topic. ...
ICI (UNE LETTRE À CHANTAL AKERMAN)
Bram Van PaesschenICI is a parody which by its very nature might at first seem trivial or gratuitous. The film is a remake with a vengeance of Chantal Akerman’s Là-bas. ICI (French for ‘Here’) takes place not in Tel-Aviv – Akerman’s Là-bas (‘There’) – but in Brussels, where Van Paesschen lives...
ER LIGT EEN VIDEO IN DE SOEP
Stefaan DecostereAn overview of the history of video art till 1983. Unconventional in style and international in scope, the work presents an overview of artists and independents working in television. Excerpts of tapes, installations and interviews are introduced through playful use of sophisticated graphics...
FEEDBLACKJECT
Pascal BaesPascal Baes experiments with the reflecting feedback of a video projector in a meticulous interaction with a performance by his life companion Aï Suzuki. In post-processing, the images were digitally edited, which results in an expressionist, abstract study of the human body...
BERG LINKS
Jan De CockThis project consists of two simultaneously shot videotapes, of which ’Berg Links’ is one, realized at the bottom of the Waterloo Hill in February 1999. De Cock’s video shows a buzz of activity around the hill, with a lot of running about and lugging of wooden planks and scaffolds. Four men are building a wooden constellation on the slope of the hill, without any clear purpose...
3. CLONE ZONE
Lucile DesamoryLouise, married to the manager of a big bank, wants to escape her boring life. She is preparing a special potion which will enable her to clone herself.,Her husband is not pleased to see the result as he come back from work....
