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EVENTUAL HORIZON
Elise GuillaumeFilmed in the Arctic, Eventual Horizon threads together the artist’s experience of insomnia, grief, and hope. In this viscerally engaging film, a parallel is made between the experience of mourning a loved one and ecological degradation. Perceiving grief as an active element of hope, Eventual Horizon focuses on the transformative and healing power of these states...
IN BLOOD WE TRUST
Pablo Garcia Rubio - Alain De Clerck - Emmanuel DundicThe video ‘In blood we trust’ records a project that consists of a performance, a sound installation and a video presentation, presented during the Venice Biennial. The performance took place during the opening of the exhibition and consisted of a small airplane that could be controlled from a distance, throwing out dollars over the heads of the audience...
KAMERA-KUSSEN
Bert BeyensA man and a woman are kissing each other by means of a camera. We see two naked actors, a man and a woman, in a closed white space, each holding an identical small camera. They start filming, the lenses held close together. They part, let the cameras slide over each other’s body. After a period of intense observation on both sides the lenses approach again and a black image is formed...
THIS WAS BEFORE...
Herman AsselberghsHerman Asselberghs' new film piece adapts the participatory performance of the same name by Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat to a cinematic format. Seven participants take part in a conversation made up only of questions...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 91. FALLING
Steve Reinke"The Hundred Videos" are almost over and it’s time to find a job so I thought I’d like to be a Hollywood scriptwriter....
THE BREECHES (2)
Messieurs DelmotteSecond part of a performace diptych. A person – Messieurs Delmotte himself ? – stands with his back in front of the camera. He is wearing white, almost transparent underwear; the only part filmed is his mid section. From between his legs a pot of choco pasta is slowly emptied....
HEXHAM HEADS
Chloë Delanghe - Mattijs DriesenTinted by the red safelight of the darkroom, the film (re)constructs a breathless pastoral horror about a place crystallized in time and terrorized by two 6cm tall stone heads whose current location remains unknown...
DES MORTS
Thierry ZénoZéno and his team made this experimental documentary on location in Mexico, the US, Belgium, South Korea, Thailand and Nepal. As the title indicates, the film focuses on the death, i.e. the deceased—and the living, who remain behind. The author refuses to comment: he wants the rituals and the participants to speak for themselves through the detached camera that merely records...
Staging Silence, Hans Op de Beeck, 2009. Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano – Beijing – Le Moulin; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; Galerie Ron Mandos, Rotterdam – Amsterdam
STAGING SILENCE (1)
Hans Op de BeeckAfter experiencing many similar public places, the artist found that they collectively lingered in his memory as abstracted, archetypal spaces. These formed the starting point of ’Staging Silence’, an ambiguous piece featuring an eclectix mix of ridiculous and serious images, the concrete and fantasy...
