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CORREDOR
Emilio López-MencheroPlaying with the Spanish homonym of the words corridor and runner, Emilio López-Menchero runs till he loses his breath on the never ending corridors of an former East-Berlin communist building. Like, other early works by López-Menchero, the video recordings maps 1:1 the duration of the action and the space where the action takes place....
UN FOU EST UN BIJOU
Jean-Philippe Convert‘Un fou est un bijou’ is the final part of a trilogy of videos (after ’De la par d’Arnaud’, 2003 and ‘Advise to iraki people’, 2004) looking for the possibilities and the functionality of ‘voice-over’. Within this framework Convert explores the relationship between image, voice and text...
Paire, 2008, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
PAIRE
Angel VergaraWith his brush, Angel Vergara follows the shapes of the soles of two feet shown in a video recording. He suggests that he wants to create a painting of the feet, but the painting itself is not shown....
MUSIC AT NIGHT
Steve ReinkePiano practice, road kill, ice cave. Daffodils. The night is exactly like the day only less obvious. Shot and narrated by Dani Leventhal, written and edited by Steve Reinke....
LA DERNIÈRE (S)CÈNE OU L’ÉVANGILE SELON SAINT BORIS
Boris LehmanA dialogue based on the Gospel according to St John. The apostles are played by friends (the disciples) of Boris Lehman, most of themselves moviemakers, filmed in front of the last house still standing opposite the new buildings of the European Union. Judas is played by Claudio Pazienza and Christ by Lehman himself...
DE NAZI
Jos De GruyterBefore the eye of the camera a Nazi attempts to justify his acts. The scene is a parody of the ‘anonymous’ interview: the voice is scrambled and the head is not shown on screen. The relativizing testimonial is given an unreal and absurd edge through subtle pace accelerations...
VICTORIA
Lukas MarxtThe hypnotic wasteland of Southern California (USA) is infused with the free-spirited nature of Easy Rider, the alienation and uprootedness of Michelangelo Antonioni, and the deep transcendence of Werner Herzog. It speaks to us through fragments of dialogues from iconic films, and yet it remains elusive and dissolves into abstract shapes, rhythms, and compositions...
untitled part 1: everything and nothing, Jayce Salloum, 1999-2002 © the artist & producer
UNTITLED PART 1: EVERYTHING AND NOTHING
Jayce SalloumPart 1 of “untitled”, an ongoing videotape with no predetermined closure presents an intimate dialogue that weaves back and forth between representations of a figure (of resistance) and subject, with Soha Bechara ex-Lebanese National Resistance fighter in her Paris dorm room after release from captivity in El-Khiam torture and interrogation centre (S...
LA TRISTEZA COMPLICE
Sven AugustijnenThis work is a document of and about the people who were involved with the creation by Les Ballets C. de la B. of ‘La Tristeza Complice’. The medium, super 8 film, enables the makers of the tape to observe the production process from the margin...
PAOLO UCELLO LA BATAILLE DE SAN ROMANO, SUITE ET FIN…
André RomusAs the title suggests, this video revolves around the painting ’The battle of San Romano’ by Paolo Uccello. Romus made his own interpretation of this famous work. The video starts with the image of a hairdresser, cutting the hair of an Asian woman. A young man in a motorbike costume is looking at her...
