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LANDSCAPE AND DESIRE
Ken KoblandRecord of a solitary sojourn across America on a Greyhound bus. A mordant, nostalgic photo album of mute streets, empty rooms and serene fields; the landscape remains of a civilisation which has momentarily disappeared....
THE MUSCLE AND ITS REVETMENT
Messieurs DelmotteMacho men like to show off their muscles – or not? In this early short film, Messieurs Delmotte fools around with some fake ones. We see an arm in front of a red velvet cloth that is pumpimg some really impressive biceps. Part of the series ‘Century of the 20th Sex’....
THE NOTHING THAT IS…
Ken KoblandTHE NOTHING THAT IS, comes out of the environment of our streets, these days; the 'virtual', 'other reality' which inhabits them. In the midst endless mining and searching for data, for information, for what's hidden (conspiratorially) in the everyday... It's bounded by 2 quotes (always words, I need them, what else can i say). One from a Wallace Steven's poem and the other from Robert Frank...
VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): LES CHAUSSURES
Jacques LennepA steady shot of a pair of immovable shoes and feet. The soundtrack however consist of heavy footsteps....
BESMETTE STAD
Johan GrimonprezBesmette Stad TV broadcast, Belgium, 1993, 18min, restored in 2007 directed by Johan Grimonprez with Paul Garrin, Meg Stuart, Alison Murray & Pascal Baes produced by Ziggurat, Belgian TV BRT / TV1 with the support of Jan van Eyck Academy 01. Video-Guerrilleros fragment from 'Man with a Video Camera' by Paul Garrin, 2min Topic II by Pascal Baes, fragment 1 02...
FOR THE RECORD
Fleur Khani - Ailien ReynsThis audiovisual work offers a contemporary insight in the lives of people in a metropole and researches more specifically the different forms of proximity. Through the images as well as the voice-over, the film aims to reformulate the question of proximity in contemporary urban society...
POINT AND SHOOT
Esther JohnsonA short animation in an ongoing series of formal experiments that take instruction procedures and mechanical apparatus manuals as source material. Quick-cutting juxtapositions explore photographic instructions from SLR and Bolex manuals for taking the perfect picture and sequence in time...
VARKENSPEST / PESTE PORCINE
Jan VrommanFor several times the native village of the video maker, Wingene, was an epicentre of swine fever. Shaken by the mass destruction of pigs the artist made a poetical videogram with some self-made images and images from the TV news. Homage to the swines who fell on the sacrificial altars of profit seeking....
IJSBREKER 03: DWARS-FLUITEND
Jef Cornelis - Mark De Geest - Jackie Claeys - Freddy CoppensThis time the programme ’Ijsbreker’ turns its attention to the flute and to diverse opinions on this instrument. The occasion for it is a study week for flutists in a cultural centre in Amsterdam, where a number of soloists, composers and teachers get to speak...
