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LOOKING UP

Bernard Gigounon
‘Looking up’ is, as Gigounon puts it himself, a trip through time and space between the astounding and reality. The short video starts with a sky at night, accompanied by the mesmerising sound of an army of crickets. We look up, as the image evolves very slowly it becomes clear to us that the thing we thought to have seen is not actually what it was, or is...

TARLABAŞI VE BEN

Jaad Gaillet - Marianna Francese
After many years in jail, Mustafa, a man in his fifties, decides to leave his native village and his family in the eastern Turkey to take refuge in the Turkish metropolis, in Istanbul. From Çağlayan to Kadikoy, his ephemeral wanderings in Istanbul finally lead him in the neighborhood of Tarlabaşı, where he settles and reinvents his life as a waste picker...

ROBERT, JUNE 1996

Manon de Boer
In 1996 Manon de Boer made a series of black-and-white portraits with Super 8 – her first time-based work. She filmed a couple of her friends during moments of intense concentration: Laurien reading a book, Robert playing guitar. These are moments when they forget, just for an instance, what is staring at them; they are unaware of the camera’s presence...

NEED ANY HELP?

Nicolas Provost
’Need any help?’ is about the encounter of two lonesome people. They are both hampered by a chronic lack of time. This  low-budget film is inspired by b-film genre qualities....

NON STOP DESIGN

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte tries to saw the legs of a chair while sitting on it....

CHRYSALIDES

Patrick Bernatchez
This trilogy of films takes the Fashion Plaza Building as its subject; the films were all shot on location there. Taken together, the films form a figurative, cinematic counterpoint to the abstract audio rendering of the facades in Fashion Plaza Nights...

HEAD WITH THE CATS

Messieurs Delmotte
Monsieur Delmotte stand in a garden and puts two kittens on his head. Each time they fall, climb or jump down, Monsieur Delmotte repeats his action. This work is part of the series Unidentified Emoticon...

ONLY A FREE INDIVIDUAL CAN CREATE A FREE SOCIETY

Grace Schwindt
Only a Free Individual Can Create a Free Society revisits discussions that Schwindt witnessed during her childhood, surrounded by radical leftwing individuals in Frankfurt, Germany...

DOCUMENTA 5

Jef Cornelis
Documenta 5 in 1972 could have gone into history as the first instance of an exhibition as a spectacle. Supervised by Harald Szeemann from Switzerland, art made its way back to the museum. The main issue at hand was the economic, political and medial significance of the event for Kassel. It was as if the avant-garde was buried for good...