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LIBERATION RADIO
Esther JohnsonThis is Liberation Radio. In 1968, a group of American military deserters went to the North Vietnamese mission in Stockholm with one object in mind – to join the army they had been drafted to fight. Instead, they were recruited for the propaganda war – and use magnetic tape, pop music and political rhetoric to persuade other American servicemen to desert...
THE PEEBLES
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte filmed from the back, launches pebbles into the water of a river. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...
PROOF OF LIFE
Herman AsselberghsThe interior of an open, empty space: the frontier between ’inside’ and ’out side’ is slight. The only sign of human presence is to be found as a voice-over: a male voice recalling horrifying TV-images, a popular disaster film, a long-term imprisonment. The title alludes to the diplomatic negotiating jargon used during the video recording of a live hostage...
THE NOSTALGIC
Hubert MarécailleDespite his preoccupations, his new wife and his financial worries, a real estate agent is still nostalgic for a young woman he met in the past. The employee thinks about her again, revisiting his past while dreaming of his death, and ends by almost wishing the death of the women he loved to be free of these thoughts, – a women who has found her place in the world : without him......
THE WELL-HEELED
Hubert MarécailleDevoid of close friends, a wealthy man, with perverse pleasures and lack of company, invites his aquaintances into his homes and gains the sympathy of his sons, promising an advantageous inheritance that another son refuses, causing irritation and total incomprehension, – irritation also created by his wife, that the man has bought her jewelry with his fortune « acquired honestly &raqu...
THE LADDER 1
Messieurs DelmotteWith his head between two rungs Messieurs Delmotte tries to balance a ladder. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...
VALERIO ADAMI, HOTEL CHELSEA BATHROOM
Jef CornelisCornelis created this documentary about the Italian painter Valerio Adam for television, for the series 'Openbaar Kunstbezit' ('Public Heritage')...
DANIEL BUREN
Jef CornelisGeorges Adé (1936-1992) interviews the French artist Daniel Buren (°1938) at the occasion of his solo exhibition – simply entitled Buren (11 May - 5 June, 1971) – in front of the Wide White Space Gallery in Antwerp. As in his previous show with the same title (17 January - 6 February, 1969), Buren applied his renowned motif, namely the alternation of white and coloured 8...
RUE FRANCIS
François VogelFrom the balcony of an apartment at the Parisian rue Francis a camera embodies the fixed centre of a visual journey: an immobile eye which, due to variable focus, is mobile at the same time. The result is a whirlwind of perspectives, edited in a way that is not apparently subject to rhyme or reason...
