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THE MONK
Paulius SliaupaThe monk, evokes, in a poetic way, man's changing relationship with nature, the consequences this has on people's daily life and the feeling of loss and alienation this causes on a personal level....
FRONTAL TREE
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte balances stiff as a rod, on the tips of his toes, with his forehead leaned into a tree....
TROIS QUARTS TEMPS, TENTATIVE DE DESCRIPTION D'UN PROJET IN SITU
Thomas Bernardet - Laurent PichaudTrois 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...
THE MENDI
Steve ReinkeDifferent ‘voices’ always occupy Reinke’s work. Though Reinke’s voice-over is very personal, authorial identity is dispersed. He invites us to look reflexively – to ask hard questions about ourselves, our desires, and our relationships to images...
11DE BIËNNALE MIDDELHEIM ANTWERPEN, 6 JUNI - 3 OKT. '71
Jef CornelisTwo programs on the 11th Middelheim Sculpture Biennial in 1971. 07.06.1971 – 4’55 Official opening of the Biennal. Pictures of sculptures, mainly American and Dutch. The curator of the Dutch section, Eugène Terwind, has installed sculptures in a garden created for the occasion by Dutch artists, and that looks like an urban district. 15.06...
HIT HIM ON THE HEAD WITH A HARD HEAVY HAMMER
Rebecca Jane ArthurHit Him on the Head with a Hard, Heavy Hammer departs from the handwritten memoir of the filmmaker’s father and his experience of displacement during wartime. Referring to the notion Thomas Hardy termed ‘The Self-Unseeing’ in his eponymous 1901 poem, the film returns to childhood and the matters that harden us...
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...
FUTUR ANTÉRIEUR (A.K.A. DISCIPLES OF THE HEINOUS PATH - PART 1: THE PAIN OF EVERYONE)
Herman AsselberghsClocking in just under twenty minutes, Herman Asselberghs’ Futur Antérieur is, for the most part, a decidedly ‘anti-retinal’ affair: it consists of fifteen minutes of utter, stifling blackness filled with quasi-intolerable noise and an occasional glimmer of distant, shimmering twilight...
THE HOUSES THAT ARE LEFT
Shelly Silver"The Houses That Are Left is a story of mortality, friendship, revenge, murder and the supernatural, as two friends come together to try to figure out how to live, while being besieged by malignant messages from the dead...
TAWANTINSUYU 1992-1492
Jef CornelisOne of the films Cornelis made for the (Flemish) Belgian television about South America and the fine arts in that continent in particular. The motivation is the celebration of the discovery five hundred years ago of America. The makers strived to look at other aspects than those directly relating to the European standpoint...
