KINSHASA, CITY ON THE GO
Thierry De MeyIn Kinshasa, there is movement everywhere. The camera, guided by one of those familiar with the city’s flow, reveals the vibrations of the Kinshasa megalopolis. The spectator can follow the footsteps of one of these "guides"...
KAMERA-KUSSEN
Bert BeyensA man and a woman are kissing each other by means of a camera. We see two naked actors, a man and a woman, in a closed white space, each holding an identical small camera. They start filming, the lenses held close together. They part, let the cameras slide over each other’s body. After a period of intense observation on both sides the lenses approach again and a black image is formed...
KINT, DE L'AUTRE CÔTÉ
Olga BaillifIn 1956, several weeks after the Russian attack, Baillif’s mother escaped from Hungary. Because she never discussed her life before this departure from Budapest, nor her relatives, Olga Baillif decided to go on a search in this documentary, for the story of her mother, the family which stayed behind and memories in the historical context...
KOMFORT ÜBER ALLES!
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven‘Komfort Über Alles!’ is a video about Van Kerckhoven’s installation with the same title, a work that she displayed in the Warande in Turnhout in December 1980. The artist guides the viewer through the exhibition room. With numbers and arrows she shows the visitors which route they should follow...
KISMET
Shelbatra JashariIn Kismet – this word means ‘destiny’ in Turkish – Jashari comments on the notion of ‘woman’ by setting suggestive, pin-up-like images against women dressed in strict Islamic clothing...
KOMM
Emilio López-MencheroSeated naked on a chair, Emilio López-Menchero checks the frame through his reversed screen display of the camera and zooms in till the image becomes completely blurred. From his static position, the artist tests the technical possibilities and the focus’ capacity of the camera....
Krieg und Frieden, Alexander Kluge, 1982. copyright
KRIEG UND FRIEDEN
Alexander KlugeKrieg und Frieden (War and Peace) is the third omnibus film by Alexander Kluge, after Deutschland im Herbst (1978) and Der Kandidat (1980). Krieg und Frieden deals with the NATO military build-up with middle-range missiles (Pershing II), Cruise missiles and neutron bombs which could have potentially annihilated Central Europe. 300,000 protesters in Bonn. German Chancellor Schmidt resigns...
KURZER ABRISS
Ulrike Knorr‘Kurzer Abriss’ (‘Small Rips’) is a documentary on the Niethammer Papierfabrik Kriebstein AG, the hugest paper mill in the former DDR that was founded in 1856. Throughout the decades, the company has managed to persist during the various political regimes in Germany and economic depressions...
KOEN THEYS
Jan FlorizooneJan Florizoone enlarges his series of extremely personal, intimate portraits of artists (Franky DC, Gorik Lindemans, Ever Meulen) with a video on visual artist Koen Theys. Armed with a video camera, Florizoone follows Theys who is himself armed with a photo camera: this takes place at various locations in Brussels; at times with the cameraman getting in the way of the photographer...
