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RADOUB TEASER
Claude CattelainThe water level varies and the bins in the hangar move up and down....
LA SOCIÉTÉ DU SPECTACLE ET SES COMMENTAIRES
Jan Bucquoy‘La société du Spectacle et ses commentaires’ is the sixth and final part of Bucquoy’s cycle ‘La Vie Sexuelle des Belges’...
MAN WALKING
Charley CaseIn ‘(Man walking)’ nothing but the feet and legs of a man are shown, inexhaustibly walking through the desert, mud, rivers, over rocks and mountains, asphalt and sidewalks and over a city rooftop, where he ultimately loses his balance and drops down to the ground. The sequence might be seen as a story, unfolding itself between life and death....
CORBION, BELGIUM, WHERE RIMBAUD AND VERLAINE LIVED TOGETHER IN THE WOODS
Anne-Mie Van KerckhovenWhen visiting Corbion near the French-Belgian border, where the ruins still could be seen tucked away in the forest, of the little cottage where French poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud lived together for a short while 100 years earlier, Van Kerckhoven asked Danny Devos to lay down naked on his stomach with his legs open, a piece of wood tied between his ankles, his hands tied behind his back...
YA RAYAH
Claudio PazienzaA working man, his traces and memory games. Based on a song by Dahmane el-Harrachi, the film evokes the frame of mind of a displaced person, someone to whom ‘here’ and ‘there’ balance out....
Shit Stirrer, Peter Finnemore, 2004. Courtesy the Artist
SHIT STIRRER
Peter FinnemoreA shit stirrer is trouble-maker, or someone who spreads rumours and manipulates people for no apparent reason at all: Finnemore takes it literately and drives a tractor in the country side in order to dispense an organic and harmless fertilizer....
Zapatero, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
EL PERDEDOR SOCIAL E INÚTIL CULTURAL
Angel Vergara’El perdedor social e inútil cultural’ is a video installation shown in 2010 in ARCO Madrid at Stella Lohaus. For this installation, Vergara collected historical images related to figures in Spain’s recent history (i.e. since the fall of Franco) combined with images he associated with that history...
THE MUSIC BOX
Jef CornelisIn 1932 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy shot ’The Music Box’, a remake of ’Hats Off’, their silent movie from 1927. The location in both films is the same; the only thing that is different is the object the movers Ollie and Stan have to drag up: in the first draught it is an automatic washing machine, in the second a piano...
