"LIFE ON THE EDGE" RADIO LINE
Beatrijs AlbersIn 1999 and 2000 Beatrijs Albers travels to the arid American desert on the borders of California, Nevada and Arizona. There she looks for the ways in which man draws out space for himself and takes political, architectural and mental ownership. The title refers to the name of an American local religious radiostation...
+18 BERLIN (VERSION COURTE)
Emilio López-MencheroBetween 1997 and 1998, Emilio López-Menchero lived in Berlin in the frame of an artist in residence grant at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. In that period, Berlin was the biggest city under construction in the world: the goal was to be at the appointment with the year 2000 and to provide a new image of the city...
_IMOVIE[3]_: SILVER LIPS / FOR ME
Els OpsomerA few years ago Els Opsomer went to Palestine. There she shot the first of her three ‘_imovies_’ with the Apple software she uses to edit her photo-based digital videos. These films are video letters expressing feelings of estrangement, and they give evidence of the difference between the world as it is experienced and the objective world ‘out there’...
14-18 (PEINTURES D'HISTOIRE)
Jacques LennepLennep visits the trenches of World War I and waves the Belgian flag....
19 KEYS VS 39 STEPS
Anne-Mie Van KerckhovenConfrontation of the devilish mechanisms of film-making with the 19 Satanic Rituals to evoke the devil’s help. The structure of the movie was built on 19 stills of Alfred Hitchcock’s film ‘The 39 Steps’ (1935)...
'SUB-'
Hans Op de BeeckThis video installation, a 3 by 2.5m film projection, provides us with a view to an escalator in an endless downward movement. The cold, self-reflecting strips light slides towards us over the stairs, and betrays a downward movement. In this symmetrical image only the metal of the escalator stairs can be seen: no actors, no props...
_IMOVIE[1]_: THE AGONY OF SILENCE
Els OpsomerEls Opsomer created this video using the amateur software ‘iMovie’ from Apple’s ‘iLife Suite’. It is a lyrical video letter to her friends, an introspective account of a short visit to Palestine. Pictures which were taken there are widely and deeply explored and edited, with the content of the letter as subtitles...
+18 BERLIN (VERSION LONGUE)
Emilio López-MencheroBetween 1997 and 1998, Emilio López-Menchero lived in Berlin in the frame of an artist in residence grant at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. In that period, Berlin was the biggest city under construction in the world: the goal was to be at the appointment with the year 2000 and to provide a new image of the city...
3 MINUTES OF DARKNESS
Edith Dekyndt‘3 minutes of darkness’ gives an approach to the visual perception the individual has of the world from the viewpoint of the astronauts: the work shows the rotation of Earth from geostationary stations. We see a completely dark image, but the contours of the continents are spotlighted by the signs of human presence...
21 JULI
Axel ClaesOld Super8 images of the Belgian National Holiday celebrations in Brussels were edited by Axel Claes into a short snapshot. The short, volatile fragments give an impression of an occupied city, just when the parade, headed by king Baudouin/ Boudewijn, runs over the inner city, raising looks of awe and amazement with its military display...
4 POINTS LIMITÉS
Jacques Louis Nyst'4 points limités / La caméra est reliée au magnétoscope par un câble de 100 mètres’ is one of Jacques-Louis Nyst’s earlier experiences with the medium and one of the few videos of the first Nyst period not to use a canvas-like white surface as a background...
21 ÉTUDES À DANSER
Thierry De MeyThe question here is how to merge dancing footage with elements of fiction. What is the right tone, the golden proportion to tell and dance the stories without resorting to techniques of a musical or a ballet? New ways of telling a story: this is, without a doubt, a critical challenge for dance today...
_IMOVIE[2]_: IN-BETWEEN / SHIFTING
Els Opsomer‘_Imovie_[2] in-between/shifting’ is the second video Opsomer made with the amateur software package ‘iLife’, supplied with Apple computers. The video consists of photographies of cities in Brazil and Senegal, which Opsomer visited...
3 SHORT STORIES
Michel Lorand3 Short Stories includes a video installation, Medea, centrally placed in the exhibition space, and three short video films, Cut, Camera Obscura and Epilogue, shown successively and continually in the projection room. Although the title may suggest otherwise, Michel Lorand is presenting four, not three, autonomous works...
(VOLCANO) ABOUT THE ANTI-CAPITALIST CARNIVAL
Charley CaseThe crowd is on the move, dancing in the mud at a devilish pace, demonstrating ('make love not money'), writing their demands on their bodies ('we only want peace') or on walls (the body of the city) ... euphoria is mixed with struggle: the first frames go from a festive anti-globalization meeting to the destruction of a McDonald's...
