OVERVIEW TITLES

NON-LIEUX, PART I

Pascal Baes
An attempt to exorcise the satanic aspects of negativism: the gothic-romantic phantoms, the Eido-Kabuki or Tibetans are creatures that failed to achieve a specific goal in their lives. They keep returning because of this unfinished business. There is the negation of choreographic movement, of tourist scenery and local aesthetic value...

PREHISTORICAL STILLS

Charley Case
Case follows the Brussels-based artist, performer and actor Dirk Hendrikx to his atelier where he performs ‘Prehistorical stills’, an intensive piece of body art involving earth and fire – but also sawdust, stones and a couple of nails. We witness how this singular artist makes ‘paintings’ from the positive imprint of his body....

Fragments, 1994, Shelly Silver © the artist

FRAGMENTS

Shelly Silver
"Fragments is an ongoing series of short videotapes ranging in length from 6 seconds to two minutes. These tapes can be seen as small drawings or sketches, bringing together pieces of ideas, overheard conversation and glimpsed images. They can also be seen, because of their structure and length, as advertising that doesn’t sell anything." (Source: https://www.shellysilver.com)...

THE LONELY

Hubert Marécaille
Pending a response to his ad placed in a newspaper in the hope of meeting a woman, a computer worker goes about his everyday activities : reading computer magazines, eating, watching TV, visiting his aunt in search of affection, spending time at the cemetery with his deceased parents, meditatively ironing his colthes, celebrating his birthday thinking of an unhappy colleague, jealous of his newly ...

KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST WEL KRITIEK? 4. WANNEER DE KUNSTENAAR IN ALLE ERNST SPEELT [BRT VERSION]

Jef Cornelis
This film is part of a series of short sketches thematic focusing on the question Wanneer is Kunst Wel Kritiek? (When is Art Criticism?). For this fourth episode, the answer – which also serves as title – is “when the artist is toying around in all seriousness”. How can it happen? 'Many a true word is spoken in jest' seems to tell us the Belgian artist Jef Geys (°1934)...

L'Atelier - Le Public, 2008, Mira Sanders © the artist

L'ATELIER

Mira Sanders
In ’L’Atelier (extrait)’, Mira Sanders brings together a set of imaginary figures personifying an audience in a scale model of a theatre space as if it were a micro-society. This is the first work in which Mira Sanders introduced human figures...

THE WHOLE SKIN TYPES CATALOG (A TEPID SUMMER)

Edith Dekyndt
In order to construct this work Dekyndt made a filmed review of different skins – used as a colour palette. The backs of different persons were filmed, focusing each time on the spot between the shoulder blades. The interweaving and the succession of skins, from very light to very dark, account for the diversity and unique texture of each skin...

TENANT

Grace Schwindt
In Tenant, the family home becomes the stage to re-enact a scripted dialogue that takes as a starting point a story about Mrs. Schumacher who was the lodger of the artist's grandfather in Berlin during the Second World War. She was a communist and helped Vladimir Lenin travel from Switzerland to Russia in 1917 after the February Revolution broke out...

WARM LIQUID EVENT

Hänzel & Gretzel
A sensual video clip made for Jarboe (singer of Swans) and her Beautiful People. A shamanic goddess praising the most sexy liquid in an ocean of bubbles: “Relax and listen, all you do is close your eyes, I’m inside you with pleasure”. A warm liquid event indeed!...

VICTOR BOURGEOIS

Jef Cornelis
An exhibition devoted to Victor Bourgeois was organized in 1971 by the archives of modern architecture at the National Higher Institute for Architecture and the Visual Arts in Brussels. This film is a presentation of that exhibition. Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Titles. 00’15" Presentation...