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SPEECH FOR A MELTING STATUE
Anne Reijniers - Paul Shemisi Betutua - Nizar Saleh Mohamedali - Rob JacobsIn June 2020, thousands of people took to the streets in Brussels to make a fist against police brutality and institutional racism in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. For a moment, it seemed that some demonstrators would take down the statue of colonial king Leopold II in a nearby square...
BEGIN BEGAN BEGUN
Sarah VanagtApril in Rwanda: the month of mourning in the new Rwandan calendar. While the country is commemorating the 10th anniversary of the genocide, children play games. Filmmaker Sarah Vanagt spent the Easter holiday in a "children’s republic", governed by genocide orphans and refugee children growing up in the war-torn border zone between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo...
untitled part 3b: (as if) beauty never ends ..., Jayce Salloum, 1982-2002 © the artist & producer
UNTITLED PART 3B: (AS IF) BEAUTY NEVER ENDS ...
Jayce SalloumAmbient images, orchids blooming, plants growing, clouds and water are superimposed over raw footage of the carnage at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon after the 1982 massacre, with the voiceover of Abdel Majid Fadl Ali Hassan (a 1948 refugee living in Bourg El Barajneh camp) recounting a story told by the rubble of his home in Palestine....
THE EMPEROR JONES
Elizabeth LeCompte - Christopher Kondek’The Emperor Jones’ is a brave interpretation of Eugene O’Neill’s play concerning the power structures of colonialism and slavery. With thoughtful use of the video medium, the work confronts not only the highly contentious elements of the play, but also the boundaries between theater and video art....
SAD DISCO FANTASIA
Steve ReinkeWhich gives the piggy bank more pleasure: the insertion of individual coins into the little slotted notch in its head or the unplugging of the round hole in its bottom that lets them all drop out? Or possibly the slow build of weight and pressure as the coins collect in the huge, hollow gut....
TROIS DANSES HONGROISES DE BRAHMS
Eric PauwelsEric Pauwels takes no pleasure in making pretty pictures, but is constantly searching. He is certainly not afraid of making less obvious choices. He likes to use the “plan séquence”, one long take that covers a whole movement. In doing so the camera fully confronts the unknown, explores the space and the body evolving in that space...
epic (malhame), Julia Meltzer & David Thorne, 2008 © the artists & producer
EPIC (MALHAME)
Julia Meltzer - David Thorne“2 years ago when I was a donkey they used to hit me so I didn’t fall into the hole that is at the edge of the valley. I used to always walk along the edge of the valley, reach the hole, move around it, and then continue walking. Of course, that is after I fell into it the first time...
LE CORPS VERBAL: UN VOYAGE DANS L'UNIVERS DE MARCEL MOREAU (FILM-DÉFILANT)
Charley Case - Manuela de Tervarent - Gauthier KeyaertsOn the occasion of the radio-transmission ‘Le Corps Verbal: un voyage sonore dans l'univers de Marcel Moreau', Charley Case created this pearl of a short animated work...
BIENNALE MIDDELHEIM 1971
Jef CornelisOriginal broadcast date: 07/06/1971 Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Titles. 00’15" Official opening of the Middelheim Sculpture Biennial. 00’32" Pictures of sculpture, mainly American and Dutch. 03’20" The curator of the Dutch section, Eugène Terwind, has installed sculptures in a garden created for the occasion, and that looks like an urban district...
