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DESIRE
Shelly SilverWant to want to do, one must not desire the pleasure but take pleasure to desire. ...
GENT, 10 JUNI 1989, VOOR GERALDINE NEREA
Jan VrommanIn this video Vromman shows us virtuoso how a “plan séquence” is capable of exploring a given spatial arrangement notably an abandoned church in Ghent. It is as though the camera possesses a will of its own, or, more appropriately, as it became itself a dancer within the given space...
INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL
Steve Reinke‘Incidents of travel’ is an adventure story in which each exciting incident or episode is relayed as a title. The title is taken from John Stephen’s 1853 novel ‘Incidents of travel in Yucatan’. The soundtrack, which proceeds very slowly, is a stretched version of ’Popcorn’ by Hot Butter. This is also, perhaps, a homage to (or parody on) structuralist film....
IL CRETTO
Aglaia KonradOver the years the Brussels-based artist Aglaia Konrad brought together an enormous archive of images shot in such diverse cities as Sao Paulo, Beijing, Chicago, Dakar, Tokyo, Cairo or Shanghai. In her new film, Aglaia Konrad brings us to Sicily where we discover one of the most extensive contemporary artworks in the world...
BATAILLE
Nicolas Provost‘Bataille’ is based on the same process as ‘Papillon D’Amour’. A scene, in which two samurai clench on to each other, turns into a shadow-fight between shades, with itself and the cosmos....
CURFUW BELLS
Cel CrabeelsDuring medieval times curfew bells were rung to warn of impending doom or possible hostile threats. During peacetime the curfew bell introduced the night and signaled the time to extinguish fires and go to bed. Curfew Bells restages bell towers as a bygone marker of time. Before the invention of the mechanic clock it was bell towers that created a shared public time...
PLACES (GARDENING (2))
Hans Op de Beeck‘Places (Gardening 2)’ is a short animated film without an explicit narrative structure, based on a series of pencil drawings made by the artist during his stay at P.S.1 in New York in 2002-2003. The animated film itself was made in 2004. The film does not tell a story, but presents the viewer with a sequence of constantly transforming imaginary places...
SLEEPLESS NIGHT
Koen Theys - Dirk PaesmansThe video was made during a study tour with the school where Koen Theys and Dirk Paesmans were studying. During the night, they went with a 1000 Watt spot to the dormitory of their fellow students, and filmed their reactions to the light. Afterwards these images were put in relation with a burning cross....
