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LE SPECTATEUR
Michel LorandThe Medea installation is made up of a large, square table with four video monitors. A single actor or actress is seen on three of the four monitors, from the waist up and frontal. The fourth monitor shows only text. The starting point is a short prose piece written by Lorand about a young woman intending to kill her two children after the end of her relationship with their father...
BEFORE LIFE
Edith Dekyndt‘3 minutes of darkness’ and ‘Before Life’ are two separate projects, but they both give an approach to the visual perception of the individual of the world: from the nearest (the dust on the surface of the eye) to the most distant (the viewpoint of the astronauts). They were both made without a camera and with limited technical means...
JOHAN
Sven Augustijnen’Johan’ is a purely documentary film that shows the therapy undergone by a patient suffering from aphasia. Aphasia is an illness that affects the language centres of the brain and that can be generated by, amongst other things, a brain-tumour or -haemorrhage...
THE WORLDWIDE WEB OF SORROWS
Koen TheysThe video contains a few hundred excerpts of clips found on YouTube, showing women trying to grab the attention of the viewer by crying in front of their webcam, sitting alone in their apartment. Some of them are silently sobbing, while others are loudly crying out their despair...
SMILEY 3D WATER
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte holds a fishbowl with a smiley face drawn on it over his head. He tries to fill it with water from a garden hose. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...
DÉJÀ VU (HALLU)
Michel FrançoisMichel François is fascinated by the small signs of life, the trivial moments and touches that are bestowed with every appearance of magic at the right time. Beauty is to be found in everyday life, where emotion and astonishment occur. François tries to induce these experiences and to grasp the mobility and the elusiveness of perception...
BIENNALE MIDDELHEIM 1971
Jef CornelisOriginal broadcast date: 07/06/1971 Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Titles. 00’15" Official opening of the Middelheim Sculpture Biennial. 00’32" Pictures of sculpture, mainly American and Dutch. 03’20" The curator of the Dutch section, Eugène Terwind, has installed sculptures in a garden created for the occasion, and that looks like an urban district...
