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HOMMAGE À … V
Lili DujourieThe five videos of Hommage à … deal with the same theme as repetition-in-difference, as a continual tracing and retracing, of the figure fold and unfold in the visual field. In Hommage à … V, there is a high set horizon, the idea that the woman is closer to us and farther to the right makes it easier for the viewer to step into the image...
VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): L'ÉCRAN
Jacques LennepAn early experiment with the medium of television in the spirit of Nam June Paik or Wolf Vostell. The camera is filming a television set, wherein the performer seems 'trapped'....
LILIANE VERTESSEN
Jef Cornelis“Liliane Vertessen wants to stay young forever. And she wants to be world famous,” Régine Clauwaert claims in this edition of Kunst-Zaken, the art magazine of the Belgian public broadcaster BRT in the 1980s. Cornelis filmed Vertessen at her home in Hasselt. He edited this short portrait to the music of Tim Buckley’s Sweet Surrender, raw blues the artist chose herself...
A GLASS OF WATER ON THE BEACH
Charley CaseCase films in close-up a glass of water and edits the ambient sound recorded on the seaside....
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...
WHITE LADY
Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle NystA videodance inspired by David Lynch’s 'The Elephant Man'. Though not clearly obvious in the piece, Nyst presents five tableaux that recall John Merrick’s mother’s life. The piece, openly Romantic and dramatic, flirts with the border of kitsch...
UNTITLED
Jayce Salloum‘untitled’ is an ongoing multi-channel video installation continuing my series of projects addressing social and political realities and representations, manifestations, and enunciations, focusing on borders/nationalisms/ movements (shifts, transitions, and interstitial space/time) and subjectivity and the conditions of living between polarities of culture, geography, history, and ideo...
MYSTIC CHILD
André ColinetMade in homage to Stan Brakhage, an influential American experimental filmmaker who died on the cusp of the digital age. Brakhage made "The Wold Shadow", a visionary visual approach, which inspires "Mystic Child". His work was also about art history: realism, figuration, expressionism, abstraction, surrealism and concept...
HET GEEL VAN GENT
Jos De Gruyter - Harald ThysIn this video Jos De Gruyter and Harald Thys put themselves in the shoes of the two main characters. Similarly to their previous work Man is characterised as a walk-on in the puppet show of life, a cogwheel in the diabolical machine of destiny. Man is unfathomable and soulless, merely an object in a world of inanimate things...
M'ZAB, STEDELIJK WONEN IN DE WOESTIJN
Jef CornelisM’zab, on a couple of cities by the border of the desert in Algeria, proposes an extraordinary architecture of living: in an unwelcoming environment a religiously inspired community has developed a very particular style of living over the centuries. The efficiency of prehistoric habitation construction engineering can still be admired here...









