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ANDRÉ ANDÉR
Karen VanderborghtPortrait of the town fool and the nutty film student behind the camera. Does the person in front of the camera becomes an ‘object’ as soon as he or she is transformed into an ‘image’? This work was the final dissertation of Vanderborght....
ELEMENTS
Laurence Vray - Charley Case - Bouchra Moutaharik‘Elements’ is the result of the collaboration between the artists Charley Case, Bouchra Moutaharik and Laurence Vray. A shot of a wood lighted by a torch mingles with the sound of leaves and twigs cracking under footsteps. This image that so strongly appeals to the imagination gradually changes into an eerie face...
OLD CLOUDS
Charley CaseA cloudy sky can be seen through a circular form and, closer by, flames and black smoke can be discerned. A view of the sky through an exhaust pipe? Or is the viewer is looking down into a trash can into which Case has effectively tossed both clouds and sky — and set them on fire....
Bruxelles-Antwerpen, 1987, Angel Vergara Santiago. © the artist(s)
BRUXELLES-ANTWERPEN
Angel VergaraFrom the Linkebeek station to Antwerp in slightly more than twenty seconds. Out of the train window, Vergara filmed the landscape as it passed him. Afterwards, he accelerated the movie’s tempo to such extent that the journey is rendered barely recognisable. What is left is a smear, an impression of a journey...
CONCRETE & SAMPLES III: CARRARA
Aglaia KonradConcrete & Samples I, II, III is a series of 16mm films on sculptural architecture. What the buildings and site in all films have in common is the idea of ‘architecture as sculpture’ and a very distinct use of concrete that seem to depart from the free form of the whole in a sculptural manner...
VERLIEFDE HARTEN OF DE LISTEN ENER JONKER
Jef CornelisIn the mid-1970s artist and author Pjeeroo Robjee wrote a popular farce that played in the region where he lived. The play was performed in a popular theatre near Ghent by the locals. Cornelis filmed the entire performance, both onstage, offstage and backstage. During the preparations, we see the actors-locals being made up. While the public enters, the tension rises...
THE BLOB
Gert VerhoevenIn 2001 Gert Verhoeven presented a first draught of ’The Blob’ (2001) on a wide screen at the Palace for Fine Arts (BOZAR). This video is a report on the World Pumpkin Confederation Contest in Buffalo, New York and Port Elgin, Ontario, Canada...
COUPURE LINKS / COUPURE RECHTS
Danny MatthysA stately street in Ghent, along two sides of the canal, filmed with a keen interest for the numerous bridges....
KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST GEEN KRITIEK? 4. WANNEER DE KUNST LICHTJES BEDWELMT
Jef CornelisPart of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art NOT Criticism?”, in this case : ’When art slightly intoxicates’. Museums are used as cultural oases in urban surroundings, where artworks are the object of selfless admiration...
