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MARCEL BROODTHAERS °1924
Jef CornelisOn September 27th 1968, the Belgian poet, filmmaker and artist Marcel Broodthaers (1924 – 1976) opened his fictional Musée d’Art Moderne – Département des Aigles, Section XIXème Siècle (“Museum of Modern Art, Eagles Department, Section of the 19th Century”) in his house in Brussels, Rue de la Pépinière...
THE MELANCHOLIC
Hubert MarécailleDespite his existential difficulties, not knowing what to say to his colleagues during the companyʼs evenings out and spending his leisure time doing crosswords, an office worker tries to convince himself of the success of his life : to have a wife, a house and a job, his dream finally realized, just annoyed by the sleeping pills his doctor prescribes for him to sleep at night and rest – his...
Vidéocartographies: Aïda, Palestine, Till Roeskens, 2009 © the artist & producer
VIDÉOCARTOGRAPHIES: AÏDA, PALESTINE
Till RoeskensIn ’Vidéocartographies: Aïda, Palestine’ Roeskens asks several inhabitants of the Palestinian refugee camp Aïda to draw him a map. The camera records the inverse of these scribbles, showing the marks of the black pen through the white paper...
L'ÂGE DE SABLE
Charley CaseA young boy is walking in the desert. Is he lost? Filmed in warm sepia colours, we see him dragging a copy of an antique Greek vase. What is his destiny? Under a burning sun, the boy is huffing and puffing himself forward. Will he reach his goal, whatever that one is? The longer the way, the more difficult he finds it dragging the vase through the loose sand. Will he make it or rather give up?...
HOBBIT LOVE IS THE GREATEST LOVE
Steve ReinkeA desktop video in five parts: 1. My Calling Card – A remake of Adrian Piper’s seminal work of the same name. 2. The True Legend of Stereo – In which a venerable European artist, with the aid of simple geometric figures, explains things. 3. Trauma in Retrospect – In which Reinke, also with the aid of diagrams, explains other things. 4...
LIVING, LOVING, LEARNING
Steve ReinkeCondensed animation of a short text. Completion of the sentence “If I lived long enough....” Music by Sun Ra....
JONAS
Olivier DekegelA short portrait of and homage to the legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas, generally considered as one of the major exponents of the avant-garde movement in the American cinematic landscape of the 1950s and ‘60s...
BOUWEN IN BELGIË
Jef CornelisA documentary that attempts to analyse the process of building as it is drawn in the minds and mentality of the people who occupy the house. It is a cinematic expression that wants to present examples of the ways in which the occupants, oriented on the pragmatic, create their own environment in spite of the official regulations...
