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SMALL BELLS

Messieurs Delmotte
Two tiny bells appear and disappear in the frame, loudly jingling. But to what body part of Messieurs Delmotte are they connected? This piece was created in the ‘Century of the 20th Sex’ series....

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 38. EXPERIMENT

Steve Reinke
During this film, you’ll need to take down notes and readings from the screen. We are going to investigate... We are going to use this machine... First of all, let’s take a look inside to see how it works. It looks complicated but the principle is simple... Let’s turn out the lights....

GARBAGE CITY

Jan Locus
The Zabbaleen (“Garbage people” in Egyptian Arabic) are Coptic Christians who migrated to Cairo 60 years ago and became the garbage collectors of the city.Their family-run micro-enterprises have created one of the most efficient recycling systems in the world...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 98. CANDLE

Steve Reinke
Quiet observation is the key to discovery....

MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Jef Cornelis
In this short documentary film, Georges Adé (1936-1992), is sitting in the Antwerp municipal library, presents the book Culture is our business (1970) by the Canadian philosopher and communication theorist Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980). Adé shows reproductions of advertisements from the book and reads extracts from it...

A RIDDLE

Cel Crabeels
A camera wonders on a surface where lines, numbers and letters are sculpted, which is the dilemma?...

CONTAINER 10: EXOTISMEN

Jef Cornelis
A conversation about the predominantly Western fascination with exotic cultures. According to Herman Pollig, who made a number of exhibitions about exoticism under the header “Exotic worlds, European fantasies”, exoticism gets in the way of an objective understanding of alien cultures...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 78. TREEHOUSE

Steve Reinke
This is the process I call mapping....

MARC MAET

Jef Cornelis
For the current art events programme 'Kunst-Zaken' Cornelis made this film about the artist Marc Maet. The programme opens with an introduction to the new photo book Roland Patteeuw made about Maet...

COMPOSITIE

Marie André
André re-organizes time, rhythm and sound in her portrait of the new music composer/pianist Walter Hus, constructing a study of the process of composing. Playing on the title's double meaning — "composition" and "composite" — André isolates musical gestures and fragments time, recomposing Hus' evolving composition...