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LOST NATION, JANUARY 1999
Johan GrimonprezIn January 1999, at the height of the Lewinsky-Clinton affair, Herman Asselberghs and Dieter Lesage asked me if’d be in for a trip to Lost Nation. They explained this was part of a project called LOST NATION they were setting up in Brussels: a place slash library slash installation about vanished nations such as Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, East and West Germany, USSR, and Zaire...
CRIME 01
Koen TheysThis is the first of two videos that are an interpretation by Koen Theys of the two home movies Adolf Hitler made during his lifetime. One of these home movies shows the german shepherd Blondi who is running on the terras of the Eagle’s nest in the German Alps. Crime 01 is the registration of a performance by Koen Theys held in a squat in Ghent...
Eth(n)ique Vietnam, Laurent Van Lancker, 2000 © the artist & producer
ETH(N)ICS VIETNAM
Laurent Van LanckerIn 1997 a young Anthropology and Cinema MA Graduate endeavours on a voyage to North Vietnam with two friends to shoot his first ethnographic documentary film. The enterprise is auto-financed and DV based, Digital Video having only recently been commercially introduced to the market. The initial excitement and spirit of adventure, though, are soon to be cut short by a major obstacle...
DANS + CAMERA
Stefaan DecostereThis documentary investigation is constructed around four themes: what is dance and camera ? Which of them should move ? Is there a difference between dance on film, on video, on tv and on stage ? How do you choreograph for the camera ? Interviews with choreographers Merce Cunningham, Karole Armitage, Birgit Cullberg, Hans Van Manen, Jean-Claude Gallotta and Meredith Monk; film/video makers Charle...
LESSEN IN BESCHEIDENHEID
Stefaan DecostereDecostere looks at the inherent paradox in the conception of the future by scientists from the San Francisco area, who praise the merits of an on-line virtual community which will ultimately allow users to never having to leave the periphery of their neighbourhoods...
DE LOIN PARALLELE
Bernard GigounonThis work shows three enigmatic individuals throwing rocks into a river. They can be seen as children, as protesters, as thugs, or as dancers. The river absorbs the shocks effortlessly, each collision vanishing through a thousand wrinkles as soon as the act has run its course, a powerful but fleeting spectacle....
THE GARDEN
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte, hidden under a table (laid out for dinner), stands up and throws about the table. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...
TENANT
Grace SchwindtIn Tenant, the family home becomes the stage to re-enact a scripted dialogue that takes as a starting point a story about Mrs. Schumacher who was the lodger of the artist's grandfather in Berlin during the Second World War. She was a communist and helped Vladimir Lenin travel from Switzerland to Russia in 1917 after the February Revolution broke out...
UN HOMME DE BIENS (ANDRÉ DAGNIAU)
Jacques LennepAndré Dagniau collects everything people no longer need. With the things he collects he helps other people....
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 05. ELEVEN DREAMS
Steve ReinkeThese are images of me when I was a child and carefree, but this voice is my voice as an adult....
