OVERVIEW TITLES

BEWARE PEOPLE

Luc Gobyn
‘Beware People’ is part four of ‘Une Victoire Americaine’. The video shows how the eye of a digital camera tracks the roads for signs of life in a landscape. The running text is derived from the pamphlets, which were dropped from the Afghan skies for the Afghan citizen at the start of the American invasion...

JUMPY CHICKEN

Messieurs Delmotte
This time the title is particularly ironic as the chicken is not actually jumping. Two strings are attached to its legs, which are used to pull the chicken away. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...

GHOST OF GAY PORN

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

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 50. CHILD

Steve Reinke
This child has mistaken the concept “snowman” for the idea “angel”....

KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST WEL KRITIEK? 4. WANNEER DE KUNSTENAAR IN ALLE ERNST SPEELT [BRT VERSION]

Jef Cornelis
This film is part of a series of short sketches thematic focusing on the question Wanneer is Kunst Wel Kritiek? (When is Art Criticism?). For this fourth episode, the answer – which also serves as title – is “when the artist is toying around in all seriousness”. How can it happen? 'Many a true word is spoken in jest' seems to tell us the Belgian artist Jef Geys (°1934)...

THE BLACK SEA FILES

Ursula Biemann
The Black Sea Files is a piece of territorial research on the geography of the world’s oldest oil extraction zone – the Caspian. A giant new subterranean pipeline traversing the Caucasus will soon pump Caspian Crude to the West. The line connecting the resource fringe with the terminus of the global high-tech oil circulation system runs through the video like a central thread...

HOBBIT LOVE IS THE GREATEST LOVE

Steve Reinke
A desktop video in five parts: 1. My Calling Card – A remake of Adrian Piper’s seminal work of the same name. 2. The True Legend of Stereo – In which a venerable European artist, with the aid of simple geometric figures, explains things. 3. Trauma in Retrospect – In which Reinke, also with the aid of diagrams, explains other things. 4...

IDIOT'S BREW

Antonin De Bemels
The videos by Antonin de Bemels are - literally - attempts: explorations of the body and gestures, of rhythm and movement. He is fascinated by the importance of a single image and interweaves all kinds of visual stimuli in a complex associative network by means of the 'scrubbing' effect, the visual equivalent of auditive 'scratching'...

BIËNNALE SINT-NIKLAAS

Jef Cornelis
For the 14th episode of “Zoeklicht” (Searchlight) on BRT (Belgian Radio & Televison), Jef Cornelis and his team visited the 2nd Biennial of Sint-Niklaas. With his well-known critical stance towards the institutional management of art, Cornelis guides us through the open-air sculpture exhibition in the city park of Sint-Niklaas...

BRUSSEL, SCHERVEN VAN GELUK

Jef Cornelis
’Brussels, fragments of happiness’ is no ordinary documentary on the Belgian capital...