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NOCTURNE #2

Pieter Geenen
Registered with a mobile phone camera in the spring of 2011, ’nocturne #2’ shows the central lanes and squares of Tehran, and its surrounding streets, at their most quiet and empty moment of the day. In recent history, the area around the infamous Azadi Tower (Freedom Tower) has been the backdrop of various protests, demonstrations, and violent repression...

THE NEW FREEDOM FOUNDERS

Emily Vey Duke - Cooper Battersby
In this three channel video installation, Duke and Battersby explore basic philosophical issues such as time, language, revolution, and the paradigms of insanity. Each of the three channels runs a different short narrative. The narratives deploy tropes from genres as diverse as science fiction, French New Wave Cinema, Hollywood Film and Television, and 70’s conceptual video...

THE SWANS

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte lures swans with pieces of bread and then throws tomato sauce at them from a bucket. This work is part of the series What's Done, Evil's Done / Ce Qui est Fait, le Mal est Fait...

COUNTERPOINT 1, PART 1: INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNT

Grace Schwindt
This is a video documentation of the multimedia performance Counterpoint 1, part 1: Individual accounts. The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London commissioned this work and it was initially performormed there in June 2010 as part of Artists' Film Club curated by Richard Birkett...

INSIDE RUMOURS

Hugo Pauwels - Sabine Van Der Linden
Some buildings radiate a personality of their own through their shape and environment. Apparently they exist there, in and of themselves, unaffected by time and human restlessness. Still, every window hides an existence. This is the short story of one of these buildings, filmed over 24 hours, in which flashes of the people that live there and rumours peep through...

MEDIASTUDIEN (NACH HEINRICH HOFFMANN)

Koen Theys
In 1927 (years before he came to power in Germany), Adolf Hitler posed in a studio for his private photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. The pictures they made were used to study the dramatic effects of certain gestures, and how to use them during Hitler’s public apparitions. Hitler was one of the first (if not the first) politician(s) who introduced the idea of media-training...

LE SUICIDE DE CASSINI

Pauline Julier
The video work Cassini’s Suicide (2017–2019) shows the American space probe Cassini, which burned up as planned when it entered the atmosphere of Saturn in September 2017...

YOURS,

Eva Giolo - Rebecca Jane Arthur - Katja Mater - Sirah Foighel Brutmann - Eitan Efrat - Maaike Neuville
A group of artists are invited to be inspired by the work of the well-known, Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman, specifically her film News from Home (1976). The busy city of New York serves as the film’s main character. Meanwhile, we hear Akerman’s voice reading letters from her mother in Brussels...

KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST WEL KRITIEK? 1. WANNEER KUNST MAATSCHAPPIJBEWUST MAAKT

Jef Cornelis
Part of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art Criticism?”. ’When art creates social awareness’ is an interview with J.F...

KITSCH GILLO DORFLES

Jef Cornelis
The opening shot of this short film from the series Zoeklicht (Search light) shows the cover of the book Kitsch - An anthology of bad taste (first published in Italian in 1968, translated in English in 1970) by the Italian art critic, painter and philosopher Gillo Dorfles (°1910)...