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CASSEURS D'IMAGES 1993-2004 (PART 2)

Michel François
- Arpenteur: A caterpillar is crawling over a geographical map, exploring the borders of the surface. - ’Tourner’ (2): A man is carrying a beam on which the camera seems to be attached. The floor and his shoes are squeaking. The camera rotates around and around the man. - ’Pigeons’: A bunch of pigeons are being filmed in close-up while they are trying to eat...

ETIENNE ELIAS

Jef Cornelis
The artistic style of Etienne Elias is very wide and it has taken various turns over the course of his life, with new forms and other accents. But his art is always driven by his colourful imagination, drawing its inspiration from his immediate surroundings, his friends and his habitat Ostende. Pictorially he visualises all of this as he sees it with his shifting artistic sense...

REMOTE SENSING

Ursula Biemann
’Remote Sensing’ roams through the territories of the global sex trade, moving us from orbit around the Earth into women’s lives, spanning the globe from Eastern Europe to East Asia...

THE DARK GALLERIES

Nicolas Provost
A fascinating hall of mirrors through a montage of film noir scenes where the actors face a painted portrait. This perfect blend of cinema and painting was commissioned to supplement a book study. Provost exploits the rules of editing to create an imaginary museum visit...

UMBRELLA [PART OF FACTS AND GESTURES VOL. 1]

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte is crossing a shopping street, opens his umbrella and tosses it over his shoulder onto the street. The camera stays on the object, letting us admire the reactions of the passers-by. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

PROVISORY OBJECT 03

Edith Dekyndt
Like the pieces ‘Provisory Object 01’ and ‘Provisory Object 02’, Dekyndt’s video shows the membrane of a soap bubble, in this case stretched between the thumb and finger of a hand...

COMME D'HABITUDE. UNE PIÈCE À ENGAGER

Eran Schaerf - Eva Meyer
‘As Habitual’ is a set piece, a documentary fiction, about how to adapt oneself to unknown regions without surrendering to them. This movie is situated in Mombassa and Zanzibar, where you can find a material called Khanga that hovers between language and architecture, and in fact turns into a habit...

EXTENDED HORIZON

Lukas Marxt
Like a cultivated alien, Lukas Marxt wanders through a desert landscape guiding his reconnaissance by remote control. Everything is entirely normal, but both path and logic come to a sudden end at an abyss. Marxt perseveres while the sound of his alleged steps wafts away with the camera image into a void: three cheers for cinematic reality....

VLAANDEREN 77

Jef Cornelis
Together with the author Leo Pleysier, Cornelis creates one of his most beautiful elegies of Flanders. They thumb through the landscape as if it were a book, seemingly of new, strange and unknown origins, a colourful patchwork veiling the remainders of smoking battlefields with its bizarre alluring and hidden charms and revealing fragments of a disaster area in its outer corners...

WAITING FOR THE SECRET

Meggy Rustamova
Waiting for a Secret takes it starting point from a picture, revealing its secrets by zooming into the various details. Gradually, the picture becomes alive, raising issues such as isolation, linguistical confusion, pixelisation and the suggestion of movement within a still image....