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MEETING FLORCHEN GORDON
Grace SchwindtIn this work, the artist’s grandfather remembers meeting his Jewish neighbour in Berlin during the rise of Nazi Germany. He tells this story while iluustrating it with a drawing....
Leopold 1eme, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
LEOPOLD 1EME
Angel VergaraVergara is focusing here on the ties between art and the political system. He does this by showing texts about the financial support granted to Hendrik Conscience by Leopold I. By letting his brush move across the cinematic images, the artist is also suggesting that recorded reality embodies the pallet with which he is ’painting’....
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...
GRIMOIRE MAGNÉTIQUE
Joëlle de La CasinièreGrimoire Magnétique is the first musical “video poème” by de La Casinière, in which painting, writing and music are synchronically arranged, according to the rhythm of a deliberate composition...
ENCORE LE CRAPAUD
Hänzel & GretzelThis sequel of Le Vieux Crapaud follows the same theme of the Christ as a symbolic figure for the catholics prominency in our culture. Hänzel & Gretzel employes the same techniques and sets of images as a way to not forget about this....
BREAKDOWN
Karen VanderborghtIn ’Breakdown’ digital editing techniques such as morphing are used to bend, crush and transfigure two different perspectives of a flat building into each other in a background that does the same in the opposite direction...
LEFT BALANCE / RIGHT BALANCE
Wim CatrysseWim Catrysse’s Left Balance/Right Balance (2002) is a two-channel video-installation. On the left screen we have a bird’s-eye view of a dark space with a crouching man, stripped to the waist, wearing shorts. It is as if the floor on which the man stands is continually moving—he reels constantly and tries to maintain his balance...
TECHNOCALYPS - DEEL 1: TRANSHUMAN
Frank TheysTechnocalyps is a 3 part documentary about ‘transhumanism’, an ideology assuming that we approach an era where humans, as we know them, are no longer the driving force of civilization. All technological developments seem to converge to one main goal: to overcome humanity, to try and create something transhuman...
OJO GUAREÑA
Edurne RubioIn the film OJO GUAREÑA we join a group of speleologists that enter the gigantic cave of the same name in Burgos, Spain. We barely notice the prehistoric traces and the contours of the spaces, but we can hear all the better: drops of water that, for ages, have been recreating the shape of the cave and continue to do so to date, as well as echoes of human footsteps...
