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UN FILM
Eric PauwelsThree people walk across the fields in French-Flanders and along the North Sea coast during the last three days of the year. A man, a woman, a man with a camera. The journey exposes the character of the landscape. Flemish clogs of earth stick on their feet. The open, flat space is covered by a dark, grey sky...
GARDENING
Hans Op de BeeckThis B/W animation film offers a perspective on an evolving landscape drawn in pencil. The artist is invisible to us, and tries to tame the landscape into highly singular gardens by shaping nature, manipulating, destroying and reviving it. The spectator sees how the author works out a train of thought in a remarkable vocabulary....
VOMIT STAR
Steve Reinke - John MarriottIn 1997, John Marriott proposed ’Vomit Star’, a six-foot star constructed from fake vomit, for his solo exhibition at the Power Plant Toronto. The project was rejected, regrets lingered. “Marriott and Reinke demonstrate the affirmative value of domestic voodoo in this descent into crime-scene-glitter-porn (which is presumably one word in German)...
INFORMATION SUR LA COULEUR
Jacques Louis NystIn spite of its title, this video is previous to the outbreak of colour in the Nysts’ work. A black and white photograph of Danièle Nyst is followed by an image of the “real” Danièle Nyst knitting. The camera tracks the wool thread and then offers us a close-up of the wool ball just as we hear a loud and clear “Jaune” (Yellow)...
ARISE! WALK DOG EAT DONUT
Ken Kobland"Very simply the piece is about going on... going on in the face of It. And about winding up where one began. We begin with a sort of reminiscence, projecting film footage from twenty years ago. We end by revisiting the landscape of that earlier footage, suggesting, I suppose, that over the years we often don’t come very far from where we begin...
DAVID HOCKNEY
Jef CornelisIn 1969, David Hockney made 39 etchings based on fairytales by the Grimm brothers. Having chosen them for their straightforwardness, Hockney drew up his own interpretations of these folk stories, with countless explicit references to the work of other artists, such as Breughel, Hieronymus Bosch or Leonardo da Vinci...
A.M./P.M.
Herman AsselberghsThere is no visible human presence in ’a.m./p.m’. Photos of cosmopolitan city landscapes are systematically scanned along with display views of office blocks, flats, dark corners, illuminated windows and skyscrapers. On the soundtrack one can hear a woman’s voice, talking about herself and the world, about images of today, about a journey...
DE EZEL VAN BURIDAN
Frank Theys - Bedrich Eisenhoet'Buridan’s Donkey' was created in the minds and the speeches of eighteen boys and girls. The video shows some people who have never met before and, setting out from their own emotions and thoughts, tell each other about their passions. Three images doom out of the chaos: the wood, the church and the factory. The wood represents innocence and obviousness, disturbed by conscience...
CONSTANT
Marie AndréA woman, a man, and a beach on the North Sea are the basic elements with which André constructs an elegant fiction of a couple, and deconstructs the codes and gestures of desire and betrayal. In her formal, rhythmic compositions, André observes the intimate detail and familiar gestures of the everyday with striking visual acuity...
