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HUMAN TRAFFIC LIGHT
Messieurs DelmotteA short video in which Monsieur Delmotte is filmed next to a traffic light on a busy street. When the light, indicating if pedestrians can cross, jumps to green, he crosses the street with his face and hands painted in green, imitating the icon on the light...
DE KLOK SLAAT VIJF: TEXTIELARBEIDER
Jef CornelisSome 200 years ago, spinning and weaving used to be a domestic industry. Women and children spun, the men wove. With the invention of the flying shuttle in the eighteenth century, weaving became industrialized. Some time later, in England a semi-mechanic spinning machine was invented. In Belgium, the town of Ghent was the main centre of the textile industry...
ICI (UNE LETTRE À CHANTAL AKERMAN)
Bram Van PaesschenICI is a parody which by its very nature might at first seem trivial or gratuitous. The film is a remake with a vengeance of Chantal Akerman’s Là-bas. ICI (French for ‘Here’) takes place not in Tel-Aviv – Akerman’s Là-bas (‘There’) – but in Brussels, where Van Paesschen lives...
SAHARA CHRONICLE : A COLLECTION OF VIDEOS ON MOBILITY AND THE POLITICS OF CONTAINMENT IN THE SAHARA
Ursula BiemannA collection of videos on mobility and the politics of containment in the Sahara...
THE CARS
Messieurs DelmotteSitting on the hood of a car, Messieurs Delmotte goes in circles around the parking lot. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...
THE BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY PROJECT
Tzu Nyen HoThe script for the film, which takes place in a room at Singapore’s Supreme Court, is entirely based on the lyrics of Queen’s song Bohemian Rhapsody. A boy is on trial, and is broken-hearted at the sight of his ‘mama’ crying...
NEAR AND FAR / NOW AND THEN
Ken KoblandA two-part film, one part unedited camera footage of a late Autumn to Winter woods, and the other a highly manipulated blue-screen re-photography process. Each part mimics the action of the other. Each is involved with a background-foreground, motion-to-still image juxtaposition: with the whole to the part, the arrested moment to the one just gone, the nostalgia of space and time. (https://www...
KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST WEL KRITIEK? 1. WANNEER KUNST MAATSCHAPPIJBEWUST MAAKT
Jef CornelisPart 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...
