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SO HAPPY
Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel BonnemaisonJoëlle de la Casinière herself, barefoot against an abandoned and ravaged metropolitan background, promotes her book ’Absolument nécessaire’ (‘An Emergency Book’) during an interview/happening with a broadcast delay. “Nothing is true, everything is permitted”. In the end the books are covered in graffiti like subway carriages....
TOPIC II
Pascal BaesThe French film theorist André Bazin used to consider film as a spell of time. He spoke triumphantly of a victory on the irreversibility and the transitoriness of life. Baes’ ‘Topic I & II’ (the painterly quality of its dusky images is for a good reason reminiscent of Francis Bacon’s strokes) seem to question these transcendent views on cinematography...
ECHO VALLEY
Steve ReinkeAn echo is the return of an originating voice in a distorted and diminished way. In ‘Echo Valley’, there are no originating voices, but only endless, undiminished echoes. This slight, frothy videotape manages to juxtapose high and low culture idioms in a way that undermines their respective implications and creates new hybrids....
THE COMMUNISTS ARE COMFORTABLE
Ken Kobland... part Bronx reminiscence, part landscape fantasy; part morality play, part melodrama. A film in many parts with monologue segments written by James Strahs for Willem Dafoe, Spalding Gray, Ron Vawter, Peyton Smith and Luche Sacker. (www.kenkoblandfilms.com)...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 36. REQUEST
Steve ReinkeHi! I’m doing a video. I was wondering if you would take your clothes off for the video....
DEATH FUCKING METAL
Koen TheysThis video is the third and final part of a trilogy, in which Fanfare, Calme & Volupté (2007) was the first part and PATRIA (2008) the second. In all three video works a group of people in uniform are lying around in a state of depression in a spectacular setting...
THE BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY PROJECT
Tzu Nyen HoThe script for the film, which takes place in a room at Singapore’s Supreme Court, is entirely based on the lyrics of Queen’s song Bohemian Rhapsody. A boy is on trial, and is broken-hearted at the sight of his ‘mama’ crying...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 56. JIN'S DREAM
Steve ReinkeI dreamt that I went to art school and when I woke up - I mean, when I graduated - I got this job designing pornographic playing cards....
CAT FOOD WOMAN
Alison MurrayA parody on the cat food commercial in which the food is always dished up lovingly by a nice lady looking as if she just walked out a beauty palour. Murray’s perceives things differently…...
LIAISONS DANGEREUSES
Charley CaseSymbols such as the Star of David, the Taijitu (the yin-yang sign) and the swastika pop up on the screen, alternating ever faster, with glowing colours illuminating their contours. Accompanied by repetitive string and deep bass-driven music, the images have a hypnotizing effect. The pace of their movement accelerates with the music until all symbols merge in one light-pulsing sphere....
