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Peter DownsbroughWith his videos Downsbrough creates natural portraits of urban environments. Everyday surroundings are observed, dissected and transformed into architectural illustrations, with a proper sense of order and chaos. In long, steady shots and travellings space is reduced and abstracted into minimalist constructions, simultaneously they assume identifiability...
SHIGERAT
Stefan Bohnenberger - Simon VogelBack from a shooting a film in Sinai, a person in Paris is watching the rushes at his hotel room. During his last day with the Beduins he started a notebook. But what is the truth? Where is the camera? What is time in cinema? And why the obsession with Mozart? Why are the clouds from yesterday the same as today? Where is Prince Stufitz?...
SNUFF COQ
Messieurs DelmotteDelmotte makes his own snuff-movie by killing a rooster with a sabre and throwing the corpse in a canal. This work is part of the series 'Rejected videos'...
PLUMAGE
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte is holding a crown of large coloured feathers in front of his face. He dances in circles in a sort of inept American Indian raindance. Afterwards he remains still. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...
La révolution, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
LA RÉVOLUTION
Angel VergaraHistorical impressions of the Belgian Revolution are combined with images of present day strikes, with excerpts from interviews with the French philosopher Alain Badiou and Belgian politicians, among others, and with the artist’s early performances (see Films Actions, 1987-1989)...
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”...
THE STREET
Jef CornelisThe street is more like a machine of movement equipped to make traffic run smoothly than, in its original and spontaneous form, a breeding ground for life. The efficiency controlling the traffic grid does not merely affect the existing living area, but also the form and pattern of a new way of living. Residential areas have turned into traffic zones; inhabitants are pushed back into their homes...
Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist
SILENT LETTER 27042008
Mira SandersThe first ’Silent Letter’ was written on April 24th, 2008. Officials are obstrucing passing people: they are not allowed to walk across a public square. However, an introductory note by the artist is dated 2007...
IJSBREKER 01: PANAMARENKO
Jef Cornelis - Freddy Coppens - Jackie ClaeysThe first Ijsbreker (’Icebreaker’) on water: a transmission, created before the eyes of the viewer, aspiring to tear down the high walls around the art world, breaking through the ready-made and brushed up ways of television at the same time. This edition evolves around the artist Panamarenko, speaking from his living laboratory in Antwerp...
