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UN DIEU AFFAMÉ
Hänzel & GretzelOn the music of Paradise Now, the short video Un dieu affamé combines details from a Renaissance painting with footages of kids playing, a statue of the Buddha, gardens and shaman's tribal dance...
SIMPLE X-DOG
Messieurs DelmotteA short video-performance where we see Monsieur Delmotte in a city garden, lifting up a dog tenderly in his arms and looking up in an enigmatic way towards the sky. This work is part of the series Unidentified Emoticon...
OGNI PENSIERO VOLA
Bart Van Dessel - Stefan FranckMemory is acknowledged by the earliest dance theorists as one of the fundamental principles in dance performances. However, memory is not only the most important requisite of a dancer, it also gives choreography the air of an art, even that of a science. Without memory there is no thought, nor knowledge...
GENTLEMEN TROUBLES
Messieurs DelmotteThis video was realized for the performance 'Problem Child' in 2013. Messieurs Delmotte worked together with Mark Bombastik as a performer and Jessica Broscheit for the realisation, which resulted in a series of performances that were acted out in public space in and around Hamburg, Germany...
WHAT A DAY!
Jean-Marie BuchetA man leaves his home and he decides to visit his friends. A trivial, every-day moment develops into an alienating reflection on the commonplaces of cinematographic narration and role-play. Jean Marie Buchet wrote the scenario during the reading of numerous production proposals and the graduation projects of his course in screenplay writing...
DIE LORELEY
Anne-Mie Van KerckhovenIn this computer-animation, Van Kerckhoven links together portrait paintings she made between 1987 and 1990 of 54 people that visited her unexpectedly. These people are acquaintances, friends and relatives. She linked each person chronologically to some words of the poem ‘Die Loreley’ of Heinrich Heine (1797- 1856)...
BIBA-NON-BIBA
Hänzel & GretzelThis whirling dance tape is a visual odyssey from Beirut to Berlin, a woman’s story set in the oppressive civil fragmentation of two divided cities where images of destruction and reconstruction are intermingled. A cutting edge poetic short, that maps out the roots of inner and outer landscapes...
COUPURE
Pierre CourtoisThis short fragment is part of a collaborative work, consisting of short films made by the Belgian video artist group CAP, founded in 1972 by Jacques Lennep. Members of CAP were Pierre Courteois, Michel Gehain, Gilbert Herreyns and Pal Horvath. The group was active until 1982. In 1974, Pierre Courtois contributed to the non-traditional group project in 1974 with “Coupure”...
CHAUSSETTES SHOW
Jacques LennepDancing socks are the protagonists in the Chaussettes show. The public consists of a pair of shoes....
DOCUMENTA 5
Jef CornelisDocumenta 5 in 1972 could have gone into history as the first instance of an exhibition as a spectacle. Supervised by Harald Szeemann from Switzerland, art made its way back to the museum. The main issue at hand was the economic, political and medial significance of the event for Kassel. It was as if the avant-garde was buried for good...
