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TWO SKIES
Lukas MarxtFor this piece, Marxt filmed the horizon from a drilling platform in the Gulf of Bothnia (Sweden) at two different times of day: dawn and dusk. In the editing, the artist flipped the images of the extremely dark, mysterious rippling water horizontally in order to stick them oppositely to each other...
SITUATION (1)
Hans Op de BeeckA moving camera takes us along an endless row of cash registers in a desolate supermarket. The cashiers are waiting behind their empty desks and it’s quiet as a mouse… The contrast between the inert location on the one side, chaotic and lively in normal circumstances, and the moving camera on the other, makes this absurd sequence into a kind of dream image...
THE JACKET
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte takes off his jacket and tosses it into a tree. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...
LE CORPS VERBAL: UN VOYAGE DANS L'UNIVERS DE MARCEL MOREAU (COURT-MÉTRAGE)
Charley Case - Manuela de TervarentThe writings of the francophone Belgian writer Marcel Moreau (°1934, Boussu) are little known to the larger audience. Although he is considered a marginal writer with an idiosyncratic, instinctive, both organic and lyrical style, he is the author of a considerable body of work. Case and de Tervarent made this short but sparkling portrait that shows the writer in his daily environment...
LA JOUISSANCE DES HYSTÉRIQUES
Jan BucquoyWhat do psychoanalysis and movies have in common? What is the girl doing at the tomb of Apollinaire? Why do directors always quarrel with their actresses? What do situationism and marxism have in common? Why go to Bali for holidays? What can we learn from actresses who want to have a role in the movie? Bucquoy: "When my wife left me for my mistress, I had the choice: either have a pile attac...
THE NEW DRESS
Jan Dietvorst - Roy VillevoyeA portrait of Sister Majella Hoppenbrouwers who worked from 1956 to 1961 with the Asmat Papuans in the former Dutch New Guinea....
Oratorium for One Prepared Video Player and Eight Monitors, 1989, Frank Theys © the artist
ORATORIUM FOR ONE PREPARED VIDEO PLAYER AND EIGHT MONITORS
Frank TheysThe video player is positioned in the middle of the room. The magnetic tape rolls out of the player as a big loop which travels over several supports around the player. Surrounding this is a second circle of monitors on pedestals facing the centre of the player and the video loop...
XXXIII BIENNALE INTERNAZIONALE D'ARTE VENEZIA (1966)
Jef CornelisIn 1966 the thirty-third edition of the Venice Biennial took place, with the participation of artists such as Henri-Etienne Martin, Lucio Fontana, Robert Jacobsen and Roy Lichtenstein—all of whom appear in this creative documentary that was originally intended for television...
PULSATION
Pieter GeenenImprinted on the mountains of Northern Cyprus, the landmark of a Turkish Cypriot flag identifies the landscape and claims the land. As it is ever present and visible from almost every part of the island, this flag is acting as a continuous provocation to the Greek Cypriots on the other side of the UN buffer zone since the military division of Cyprus...
END CREDITS
Ken KoblandFilmed over a few nights in the late Ron Vawter’s dressing room during the show ‘Roy Cohn/Jack Smith’ at the Kitchen, NYC, in October 1993, this tape is a small but poignant homage to an extraordinary talent....
