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POLYFONISTEN DEEL 2

Stefaan Decostere
Polyphonic music developed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the courts and religious centres of Europe, and was a method of composition whereby the various voices were treated as wholly or partly separate from each other. In Polyfonisten, an identical line of thought is expressed in a mirror-like perspective of history as seen through the eyes of today...

CHANSON, LIED, SONG

Cel Crabeels
The video shows an old lady in a home for the elderly. She sings the story of her own life, in improvised, rhyming phrases. Echoes from another age, language mosaics from an animated past receive an anachronous echo through added electronic sound collages, as a collision of time, memory and sound. The music is by Ederen Tatio / Stefaan Vinckevleugel....

THE RABBIT AND THE TEASEL

Els Dietvorst
In a world where petty opinions, hysteria, commotion and emotion have become the norm and neo-liberal humanity is rapidly losing sight of the path to happiness, The Rabbit And The Teasel is a breath of fresh air. Fiction and autobiographical elements mingle in a lyrical tale that drags the viewer into a universe of beauty, death, and decay...

BUSTUTAI

Gert Verhoeven
In 2001 Gert Verhoeven presented ’The Blob’. This video is an account of the World Pumpkin Confederation Contest in the United States. The style is similar to a documentary, but it is extremely fragmented for lack of a storyline or any clarification...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 07. SPECULATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY

Steve Reinke
It wasn’t very long ago that the imagination could make its way into the world as an autonomous agent of seemingly repressed desires. I want to return to that time....

THE WITNESS AND THE WITNESS APPEAL

Ria Pacquée
A serial of three parts, ’The Witness’, ’The Witness Appeal I’ and ’The Witness Appeal II’ address the omnipresence of crime in urban life today. ’The Witness’ portrays a woman standing in green urban spaces, wearing a hooded coat and scarf that partially conceal her face. The camera circles her, passes her and zooms in on her face...

DÉTACHEMENT

Cel Crabeels
This minimal video installation shows the material filmed by two hand camera’s attached to the belly of a trotting horse on two oppositely placed screens. They simultaneously filmed the movements of respectively the front and the hind legs...

AN ORDER OF THINGS

Grace Schwindt
The performance took place at the Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe in September 2014. One performer is hovering horizontally a meter above the ground and the other, a magician, is sitting on a chair in a corner, turned away from the audience. She gets up four times to carry out dance choreographies and then sits down again...

CONTAINER 03: DE PUNTZAK VAN HEINE

Jef Cornelis
“What is it with history: providence, coincidence, irony or fate?”. This is a quote from one of the letters that have been selected to be read out in the letter project ‘De Puntzak van Heine’. The project is extended through the medium of television, reflecting on a number of inherent questions...

REGARDING THE PAIN OF OTHERS

Ken Kobland
In response to BLM events and to the whole world of injustice, slaughter and abuse... a small comment....