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Long Live the New Flesh, 2009 Nicolas Provost © the artist(s) & producer(s)
LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH
Nicolas Provost’Long Live the New Flesh’ deploys a technique in which the images literally consume one other and the horror in all its visual power is brought to a natural boiling point. All the ingredients that have secured Provost’s experimental art films their international success are once again present here...
UU
Teresa Cos"Countless people die everyday, yet those who remain live as if they were immortal." * UU is a two-channel film and sound installation produced during a 12-month residency at the WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels...
TSUMI (THE MIS-STEP)
Pascal BaesExperimenting with the use of a stop motion technique that freezes movement through the use of long exposures and slow shutter speed, Baes filmed during three months his intimate family live. A soft-porn autobiographical documentary: the axing of wood, a performance by Baes’ life companion Aï Suzuki, love-making and birth-giving and the philosophy that no pleasure can be without crime....
KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST WEL KRITIEK? 4. WANNEER DE KUNSTENAAR IN ALLE ERNST SPEELT [BRT VERSION]
Jef CornelisThis film is part of a series of short sketches thematic focusing on the question Wanneer is Kunst Wel Kritiek? (When is Art Criticism?). For this fourth episode, the answer – which also serves as title – is “when the artist is toying around in all seriousness”. How can it happen? 'Many a true word is spoken in jest' seems to tell us the Belgian artist Jef Geys (°1934)...
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A] PART, Peter Downsbrough, 2009 © the artist & producer
A] PART
Peter DownsbroughA]PART is a video project filmed in the Citroën Building on the Place de l’Yser/IJzerplein In Brussels. Downsbrough directs camera through different levels of the building. Sometimes the camera focusses on what is happening outside: traffic... Only buildings, cars and structures are seen...
DE NAZI
Jos De GruyterBefore the eye of the camera a Nazi attempts to justify his acts. The scene is a parody of the ‘anonymous’ interview: the voice is scrambled and the head is not shown on screen. The relativizing testimonial is given an unreal and absurd edge through subtle pace accelerations...
CASCADEURS (RIVIÈRES)
Michel FrançoisA waterfall. Now and then a person lets the water carry him down. The irregular gaps between the split-second appearances of the people sliding down underscore the continual flow of the water....
SLEEPING PORNOGRAPHY
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte is sleeping on top of a television set that plays some vintage black and white pornography. But what is that liquid coming out of the tube he is holding? This video is part of the ‘Century of the 20th Sex’ series....
YEAH, IN THE BATHROOM
Messieurs DelmotteDelmotte, wearing a black-and-white striped costume and matching make-up, pretends to be an American rockstar. In an incomprehensible accent he brags about his concert-tour, the media and his home in Texas. This work is part of the series FränZ ünd KoFöN...
FEED BACK PAINT
Pascal Baes‘Feed Back Paint’ is based on a simple concept people have been experimenting with for several decades: video feedback, or in other words, what happens when a camera films a screen surface in real time, and the signal is sent back to the very same screen. The technique is simple, its behaviour unpredictable...
