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BROKENDOWN DREAM
Messieurs DelmotteThe work of Messieurs Delmotte is situated somewhere between reality and the improbable, somewhere between playfulness and dilettantism. Delmotte, who is one person, despite his adopted plural title, is immediately distinguished (distinguishes himself) by his outward appearance. He could be regarded as a strange, updated version of a 19th-century dandy or even as a 21st-century Buster Keaton...
ROBERT, JUNE 1996
Manon de BoerIn 1996 Manon de Boer made a series of black-and-white portraits with Super 8 – her first time-based work. She filmed a couple of her friends during moments of intense concentration: Laurien reading a book, Robert playing guitar. These are moments when they forget, just for an instance, what is staring at them; they are unaware of the camera’s presence...
TOURIST RENOUNCEMENT
Messieurs DelmotteThe video ’Tourist renouncement’ was originally recorded in 1995 in Togo, as part of the project ‘Afrikanisch-Europäische Inspiration’, set up by Togolese artist El Loko who was living in Germany. For two months eight artists from various countries in Europe and Africa worked on this cultural exchange...
THE CRY
Ria PacquéeIn various outdoor locations, a cry is performed. As the locations differ – under trees, in a rough wooden structure, in a field – the distance of the performer from the camera also differs, altering the volume and proximity of the sound. The performer also varies the vocal qualities of the cry, including its length, tone, pitch and volume...
PRO TESTING
Eran Schaerf - Eva MeyerPro Testing (2010) consists largely of a circular panning shot from the center of a circle of protesters holding up placards. Most of these show photos of a demonstration in favor of the “Gaza Aid Flotilla” that was stopped by the Israeli Navy...
MADONNA WITH CHILD
Nicolas ProvostA very personal, fairly explicit and worrying portrayal of the birth of Christ....
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 55. SYMPOSIUM
Steve ReinkeI dreamt that the University of Minnesota held a symposium of serial killers and Joseph Beuys gave the keynote address....
THE SUN AND THE LOOKING GLASS - FOR ONE EASILY FORGETS BUT THE TREE REMEMBERS
Miléna DesseOn a land perpetually threatened by colonial appropriation, the transmission of history and narratives plays a peculiar and vital role. The Sun and the Looking Glass - for one easily forgets but the tree remembers is an essay-film which paints a portrait of a place on a hill above Ein Qiniya, a Palestinian village in the West Bank, with two houses from the late Ottoman period...
THE DEAD WEIGHT OF A QUARREL HANGS
Walid RaadA videotape in three parts exploring the possibilities and limits of writing and imaging a history of the Lebanese civil wars (1975-1991). Setting up the viewer Ra’ad constructs a tape fictionally based on facts, but not necessarily his, they are hysterical symptoms of sorts that present imaginary events constructed out of innocent and everyday material...
