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The Journey, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist The Journey, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist

THE JOURNEY

Mira Sanders
’The Journey’ is a hand-held camera shot of a giant cardboard model, consisting of images that refer to travelling. While some parts of the model move while filming, the camera itself slowly recedes, finally resulting in a frontal view of the whole model...

UN JOUR MON PRINCE VIENDRA

Marta Bergman
Some day, my prince will come… The life journey of three young Rumanian women in search of a Western husband. In the background we see their family conflicts, their precarious jobs, their blinding dreams. They put small ads to find this guy, and sign up with wedding agencies...

THE TOY SUN

Ken Kobland
A rumination on Time, with a capital "T". Time and its ravages, which really just means its progression, its nature. Set off by an "old" poem, a T.S. Eliot poem that’s literally haunted me for 30? or 40? yrs...even before I became an old man myself. (It’s an old man’s rumblings, and it never fails to move me...

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - PORTRAIT DE FAMILLE

Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman
A salesman suggests the viewer to buy a video camera, to make family portraits with. A stream of images of family members appear on the screen....

THE BEERS

Messieurs Delmotte
Beer cans are displayed on the stairs of a building. Delmotte goes on crushing them one by one with his feet. This work is part of the series 'Rejected videos'...

AVV-VVK, EEN SCENARIO / AVV-VVK, UN SCENARIO

Jan Vromman
How do you convince the government that they should grant your project on the theme “Alles voor Vlaanderen/Vlaanderen voor Christus” (“Everything for Flanders/Flanders for Christ”)? The decision-makers are not fundamentally opposed to it, but they want to see something to motivate their choice...
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GRIEKENLAND ALLES INBEGREPEN

Jef Cornelis
This programme outlines the Greek art scene after the dictatorships, through interviews with artists and portraits of galleries, museums and architectural projects. The starting point is a definition the Ancient Greeks used to designate art...
Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel ratlos, Alexander Kluge, 1968. copyright Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel ratlos, Alexander Kluge, 1968. copyright

DIE ARTISTEN IN DER ZIRKUSKUPPEL: RATLOS

Alexander Kluge
Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: ratlos (Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed) is made in a collage style, featuring newsreels and quotations from philosophers alongside the story of a failing circus whose director Leni Peickert wants to show off high-class artistic performances. Leni has just lost her father in a trapeze accident...

NEARLY PRESENT, JUST PAST

Cel Crabeels
"If I were young, I would destroy a Dan Graham piece, I would smash the goddamn Dan Graham piece." (Dan Graham in an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2001) This subjective-documentary video is part of a project on the violent and thorough destruction of a pavilion by the American artist Dan Graham...

L'AUTEUR

Michel Lorand
The Medea installation is made up of a large, square table with four video monitors. A single actor or actress is seen on three of the four monitors, from the waist up and frontal. The fourth monitor shows only text. The starting point is a short prose piece written by Lorand about a young woman intending to kill her two children after the end of her relationship with their father...