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CASSEURS D'IMAGES 1993-2004 (PART 2)
Michel François- Arpenteur: A caterpillar is crawling over a geographical map, exploring the borders of the surface. - ’Tourner’ (2): A man is carrying a beam on which the camera seems to be attached. The floor and his shoes are squeaking. The camera rotates around and around the man. - ’Pigeons’: A bunch of pigeons are being filmed in close-up while they are trying to eat...
DOUGLAS PARK'S 'READING ALOUD'
Cel CrabeelsDouglas Park's 'Reading Aloud' was set up as a performance and collaboration between Cel Crabeels, Douglas Park and Nico Dockx. The video was shot at and produced by Cel Crabeels for the show 25 JAAR LOKAAL 01: 'PAULO POST FUTURUM', 16 June 2007 to 2 September 2007" at Breda The Netherlands. This video is part of an ongoing and expanding archive project...
THE REMEMBERED FILM
Isabelle TollenaereIn The Remembered Film young soldiers from previous wars are seen roaming the woods aimlessly. They wear the uniforms of the Soviet troops, the Wehrmacht or the American military forces during the Vietnam war. In interviews, they share war memories they can’t possibly have experienced themselves, but which have taken root in their memory...
LE CERCLE DES NOYÉS
Pierre-Yves VandeweerdLe cercle des noyés (Drowned by Oblivion) is the most documentary essay by Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd (1969). The film looks back on 1987 and the imprisonment of a number of Mauritanian political activists in an abandoned colonial fort at Oualata. Political authorities described them as subversives, so they were picked up, taken away and handled as such...
BUSTUTAI
Gert VerhoevenIn 2001 Gert Verhoeven presented ’The Blob’. This video is an account of the World Pumpkin Confederation Contest in the United States. The style is similar to a documentary, but it is extremely fragmented for lack of a storyline or any clarification...
MINABLE MUSIC-HALL EN VIDÉO-ART
Jacques LizèneWith “one of the untalented sequences of Jacques Lizène” as a subtitle, the artist himself wallows in his typical nihilism from the very start—or should we say infantilism? With a soundtrack of grating and complaining in the background, one derisory scene is followed by the next with great indifference...
The Greenhouse Effect, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist
THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT
Peter FinnemoreThe greenhouse effect is a process by which thermal radiation is absorbed by atmospheric greenhouse gases, and is re-radiated in all directions: this results in an elevation of the average surface temperature. Closed inside a greenhouse, Finnemore's troops dance on the rhythm of a lounge score and re-radiate an uncontrollable delight....
LES ONDES DE LOVE
Edith DekyndtA flag made of 20 meters of black cloth, standing on the desert plateau of an active volcano, waves generated as if the mast movement of the fabric, forming a wave. When conditions are most favorable, the movement becomes sinusoidal and visually approximates the seismic waves discovered by the British mathematician Augustus Edward Hough Love (1863-1940)....
50 TABLOTINS MUSIQUÉS
Joëlle de La CasinièreJoëlle de La Casinière's 'Les tablotins' are graphic illuminated poems; small paintings-poems. In a video, each one of the tablotins – digitized and enlarged 15 times on the screen – appears as a fixed shot with a soundtrack for about three minutes....
Gand Sud, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
GAND SUD
Angel VergaraVergara filmed this piece looking southward over Ghent. On the edge of the Book Tower’s terrace lies an open catalogue of Chambres d’Amis, an exhibition which took place in Ghent in 1986. With a brush in his hand, he traces the images with gestures that suggest he is painting...
