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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 24. VISUALS ELF

Steve Reinke
People ask me, Steve, how do you manage to make so many films ? Why are they so prolific ? And I say, Oh they are not films but video. It is a simple and effortless process....

MARIA GAAT NAAR SCHOOL

Edurne Rubio - Maria Jerez
The children of V-tex school in Kortrijk, teach Dutch to Maria Jerez. During three weeks the roles of education change: 33 children teach and one adult learns. During this change of roles, the matter is not the transfer of symmetrical power, but the establishment of a fragile situation for all parties, a space where nobody knows....

OMBRE INDIGÈNE

Edith Dekyndt
A flag made of hair was stuck in the ground and filmed on top of rocks on the Diamant coast, in Martinique. There, precisely, on the night of the 8th of April 1830, a clandestine slave boat transporting a hundred African captives washed up on the rocks before being entirely destroyed....

LANDING

Cel Crabeels
‘Landing’ (2006) consists of video and sound recordings Crabeels made during a stay in Iceland. The desolate volcanic landscapes and geysers take on abstract and aesthetic qualities while, at the same time, appearing unearthly, like some sort of unformed lunar craters...

JAN FABRE, DIRIGENT VAN HET TOEVAL

John Heymans - Peter Scholten
Starting in the visual arts, Fabre was immediately attracted to other artistic disciplines: theatre, performance, installation art, action theatre, dance and opera. Over the last 15 years Fabre, quintessentially a performance artist, has become a 'director of coincidence', as he himself puts it...

STARSHIP

Bernard Gigounon
‘Starship’ shows an enormous symmetrical axis, stranded on a beach of the North Sea. Futuristic thinking about possible worlds is proper to humankind. For the last fifty years new technologies and impressive means of transport have aroused our imagination on the silver screen, in science fiction films and series like ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Star Trek’...

THE SCRAP IRON AGE

Roy Villevoye - Jan Dietvorst
For the Questioning History exhibition, Roy Villevoye and Jan Dietvorst produced a new film that, in a certain sense, is a sequel to Winter Prayers, a film from 2006 about memories of the First World War...

FUTUR ANTÉRIEUR (A.K.A. DISCIPLES OF THE HEINOUS PATH - PART 1: THE PAIN OF EVERYONE)

Herman Asselberghs
Clocking in just under twenty minutes, Herman Asselberghs’ Futur Antérieur is, for the most part, a decidedly ‘anti-retinal’ affair: it consists of fifteen minutes of utter, stifling blackness filled with quasi-intolerable noise and an occasional glimmer of distant, shimmering twilight...

BRUXELLES, UNE VILLE EN ÉTÉ

Marie André
The scene is Brussels, a summer afternoon, and the city seems suspended, silent, waiting. A young girl reads a letter from a friend who is away from the city on vacation. André then opens the narrative — fiction? document? — into a journal of the city in summer, which she presents as an urban landscape of open, empty spaces, from pastoral parks to corporate plazas...

THE MANY THINGS SHOW

Koen Theys
This video is based on two sources: a late 60s theoretical text, written by conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth — and a seemingly endless stream of found internet images, invariably picturing one or more persons in the proximity of some loved object: holding it; standing close to it; locking at it...