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HUMAN TRAFFIC LIGHT
Messieurs DelmotteA short video in which Monsieur Delmotte is filmed next to a traffic light on a busy street. When the light, indicating if pedestrians can cross, jumps to green, he crosses the street with his face and hands painted in green, imitating the icon on the light...
CATCH-AS-CATCH-CAN
Wim CatrysseThe work of Wim Cartrysse reveals a strong fascination with the human body and the way it relates to the environment. During his past as a theatre actor he discovered the possibilities and power of physical performance as a direct gateway into the spectator’s world of experience...
CLOSED DISTRICT
Pierre-Yves VandeweerdThe material for ’Closed District’ was recorded in 1996 in the South-Sudanese village of Mankien where Vandeweerd filmed the war, which has lasted for thirty years in this area. Because of the despair and disillusion there, it took him almost ten years to edit the images into a documentary, which is not merely about the war in Sudan, but about wars in general...
The Hamptons, Jordi Colomer, 2010. Courtesy the Artist
A CURE FOR BEING ORDINARY
Cooper Battersby - Emily Vey Duke’A Cure for Being Ordinary’ is a short experimental narrative telling the story of Tim Eckman, a young computer programmer who escapes the drudgery of his work place by moving into the rafters above his cubicle. From the new perspective of his, he is able to draw conclusions about the impact of capitalism on human perceptions of time...
DEATH FUCKING METAL
Koen TheysThis video is the third and final part of a trilogy, in which Fanfare, Calme & Volupté (2007) was the first part and PATRIA (2008) the second. In all three video works a group of people in uniform are lying around in a state of depression in a spectacular setting...
LE MAL DES ARDENTS
Alice BrygoA stunned crowd faces a fire. The threat has no name, a diffuse anguish spreads. Fear needs to be conjured, fire must be turned into a sign....
L'étranger, Mekhitar Garabedian, 2006 © the artist & producer
L'ÉTRANGER
Mekhitar GarabedianThe work ’L’Étranger’ is an adaptation of a poem of the same name, the introductory part of Charlies Baudelaire ’Petits poèmes en prose’. This short piece of prose composed as a poem was published for the first time in 1869 and tells the story of a nihilistic man, who has given up or lost all his connections...
MONSIEUR EZIO BUCCI, SUPPORTER
Jacques LennepVideo, apart from photography and holography, was but one of the media Lennep made use of during the 1970s, as he was adding on to his ‘museum of men’. His human models were derived from all layers of the populations, but they shared a common obsession for collecting things or, at the very, least an unusual passion...
