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GHOST OF GAY PORN

Steve Reinke
A Gordon Lightfoot song, a collection of Vu-Master slides, seven randomly generated names....

BEGINNINGS

Roy Villevoye
In his work Roy Villevoye (1960) explores issues around anthropological representation, the conventions of documentary filmmaking and the heritage of colonialism. Even though his videos, often realized in collaboration with Jan Dietvorst, are frequently considered documentaries, he distances himself explicitly from the genre...

LE GOÛT DU KOUMIZ

Xavier Christiaens
’Le Goût du Koumiz’, Christiaens’ first feature film, is all about the consequences of the communist regime for nomadic tribes in the Russian province of Kyrgyzstan. The narrator saw how his father, the chief of a tribe, was deported in the thirties, becoming isolated from nomadic life...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 91. FALLING

Steve Reinke
"The Hundred Videos" are almost over and it’s time to find a job so I thought I’d like to be a Hollywood scriptwriter....

HET SLACHTOFFER

Harald Thys
A man is put in the trunk of a car and driven to the woods by two other men. On arriving he’s pushed in the mud and kicked. But his hands are not bound, he doesn’t run away when he gets the chance to and he gets back in the trunk voluntarily. The two men then tie the 'victim’ to a tree and shoot him. Afterwards they leave the forest with the victim, who’s still alive...

STILL

Michel Lorand
STILL is filmed in the curve of a motorway tunnel. The film, shot entirely in black and white, begins with the ringing sound of a gong, which takes several minutes to fade out. Together with the dying echoes of the instrumental sound, the images slow down as well, until the frame seems to freeze at the end of the film....

MY SUMMER 77 WITH GORDON MATTA-CLARK

Cherica Convents
This film document is an addendum to the original Office Baroque film that was realised by Cherica Convents in the seventies. The film consists of never unveiled reflections & images of Gordon while preparing one of his last building cuts ‘Office Baroque’...

SONSBEEK BUITEN DE PERKEN

Jef Cornelis
The 1971 Sonsbeek exhibition was subtitled 'Sonsbeek buiten de perken' (literally: "Sonsbeek Beyond Its Bounds", or freely as: "Sonsbeek Let Loose"). It was not limited to the confines of the park, but instead stretched out over all the Dutch nation. This was the period of land art, conceptual art, process art, minimal art, performance, and video; the traditional socle sculpture had disappeared...

LOOKING DOWN

Bernard Gigounon
A ship, filmed from above, is slowly moving through the image: the bow, the deck, and the metal cover plates. As soon as the camera arrives at the load, however, consisting of sand and stones, something weird happens: the load turns into a Martian landscape, it seems as if the camera is transforming into a satellite, exploring some barren planet...

JAMES LEE BYARS, ANTWERPEN 18 APRIL – 7 MEI 1969

Jef Cornelis
Documentary on James Lee Byars’s exhibition at the Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp (18.04.1969 / 07.05.1969). James Lee Byars, his whole body covered by a robe, talks to Walter Van Dijck about the meaning of art, the new meaning of clothes, the beauty of ’Natural Landscapes In An Urban Situation’, the role of museums and his idea that a show is a translation of his ideas...