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MY RECTUM IS NOT A GRAVE (NOTES TO A FILM INDUSTRY IN CRISIS)

Steve Reinke
Using footage shot in 1938 and 1939 by Ivan Besse, who owned a movie theatre in Britton, South Dakota and used local portraits in a kind of local news-reel, Reinke builds a strange reverie, sometimes speaking as Besse, sometimes as St. Paul, with reference to Frank O’Hara, Odetta and Dusty Springfield....

TROIS QUARTS TEMPS, TENTATIVE DE DESCRIPTION D'UN PROJET IN SITU

Thomas Bernardet - Laurent Pichaud
Trois Quarts Temps’ (‘Three Quarter Time’) is a film about a choreography by Laurent Pichaud, ‘référentiel bondissant, pièce pour gymnase et gradins’, which is a work-specific site designed to be performed in type C gymnasiums...

AND_04-2020

Peter Downsbrough
In: Place #3, Janvier/ January 2021, D’UNE PLACE L’AUTRE / CHANGING PLACES https://www.place-plateforme.com/place3/peter-downsbrough-and.html AND_04.2020 opens with a black screen and the sound of a man’s voice rising over the noise of traffic. His words are hard to distinguish, but their tones and cadence indicate they might be Chinese...

J'AI LA TÊTE QUI TOURNE

Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle Nyst
The heads of a video recorder are turning; the earth is turning. The night succeeds the day. Thought and images pass by; the artist is feeling dizzy. The unfolding story follows the course of a conversation between him, a counter of stones, and the female character Theresa. Their intention is to move the world and the night into a little grey corner...

LE BRUIT DE L'IMAGE

Michel Bonnemaison
"Look! There’s noise on the image. Something is flapping its wings in your TV set. It’s the flight of an angel passing through it. The rustle of Gabriel’s wings." The archangel Gabriel, a message expert, since he dictated the Koran to Mahomet, explains the invention of television through the operation of the Holy Ghost. The actor Enrique Ariman is all ears...

SET [ING]

Peter Downsbrough
In Set [ing] the camera is situated in a closed, empty meeting room in an office building in the Paris business centre of La Défense...

BANG! JAMES LEE BYARS RE-ENACTMENT

Cel Crabeels
For the exhibition 'ORBIS TERRARUM—Ways of Worldmaking' (Museum Plantijn Moretus, Antwerp, 2000, curated by Moritz Küng), Cel Crabeels made this video re-enacting James Lee Byars’ well known piece 'Smithereens: the remnants of an exploded globe' that was on view in Galerie des Beaux-Arts, 1993, Brussels...

FIREWORKS

Messieurs Delmotte
In a field, Delmotte lights two fireworks attached to sticks. He holds the sticks in his hands while the fireworks go off and makes a few spins. Offscreen people shout and whistle. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...

CLEAN AIR

Grace Schwindt
Clean Air investigates how meaning is projected onto landscapes. For instance, the Alps are linked with power, purity and cleanness, terms that were also used to describe the German identity from the 1920s onwards. Two female performers of different generations react to this mental construction with a choreography of dance, music, costumes, milk and knitting....

KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST GEEN KRITIEK? 6. WANNEER DE KUNST ZOET HOUDT

Jef Cornelis
Part of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art NOT Criticism?”, ’When art keeps people satisfied’ is a short report about a creative centre in Ghent, subsidized by the Belgian Post’s social service, where postal workers can paint and sculpt in their spare time...