LA SAISON DES FUNÉRAILLES
Matthew LancitSurrounded by villages deeply rooted in ancestral traditions, Dschang is an expanding university town in the heart of Cameroon. Its inhabitants define themselves between the clash of old-world mysticism and modern development...
ANINA
Alkaios SpyrouAnina documents a voyage onboard a container ship, crossing into Baltic. In the form of a film-essay without a narrator, the film assumes the point of view of these iron cathedrals, the industrial maritime landscape they exist in, and the aesthetic spectacles they produce midst the logistical cacophony of capitalism and territory....
LE SUICIDE DE CASSINI
Pauline JulierThe video work Cassini’s Suicide (2017–2019) shows the American space probe Cassini, which burned up as planned when it entered the atmosphere of Saturn in September 2017...
GEOGRAPHIES OF FREEDOM
Miguel Peres dos SantosThere’s an uncanny kind of shock value to hearing a friendly, old-timey television announcer speak of how the “simple people” of the Netherlands Antilles were rescued from “primitive living conditions” when large oil refineries appeared on the islands, ending their “deficient medical care and lack of hygiene...
THEN AS
Peter DownsbroughTHEN AS was shot in Tours and Saint-Pierre-des-corps in central France with the assistance of a group of students from the Ecole supérieure d'Art et Design TALM-Tours. Peter had been invited to do an exhibition at the Galerie Mame in Tours by David Kidman, who teaches film making at the school...
THERE
Peter DownsbroughJust over two minutes long, THERE enfolds key components of Peter Downsbrough’s multiform practice: the visual vocabulary, formal strategies, and enduring themes found in his books, sculptures, architectural interventions (room pieces and wall pieces), photographs, postcards, and many of his other videos...
AND_04-2020
Peter DownsbroughIn: Place #3, Janvier/ January 2021, D’UNE PLACE L’AUTRE / CHANGING PLACES https://www.place-plateforme.com/place3/peter-downsbrough-and.html AND_04.2020 opens with a black screen and the sound of a man’s voice rising over the noise of traffic. His words are hard to distinguish, but their tones and cadence indicate they might be Chinese...
I LOVE RÜCKBAU
Aglaia KonradIn 2015, Aglaia Konrad filmed the demolition of the iconic headquarters of BNP Paribas Fortis bank on Warandeberg in the heart of Brussels. In a short space of time, demolition machines dismantled the modernist building from the 1970s, designed by (interior) architects Hugo Van Kuyck, Jules Wabbes, and Christophe Gevers...
OVER THE TOP
Justine CappelleWe meet Floris in the empty and cold warehouse where he collects cardboard boxes and is organising them in a specific way. We discover the boxes start to form a pyramid. The boxes symbolise Floris’ ultimate desire: reaching the top. Literally the top since Floris wants to put his epitaph of mankind on top of the Gizeh pyramid...
A VOYAGE INTO THE MOON_MISSION REPORT
Mira Sanders - Cédric NoëlHiroshima, 6 August 1945: a sudden flash, a violent explosion, the atomic bomb. Somewhere on the Moon, a creature feels under threat. Shortly after that, the Japanese army receives a signal from a mysterious astronaut. Are we no longer alone in the universe? A Voyage into the Moon is a body of recent work by the artistic duo Mira Sanders and Cédric Noël...
