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TRAVELOGUE 5: DÉJÀ-VU
Stefaan Decostere - Elie Peeters‘Déjà-vu’ deals with virtual tourism in Japan and is based on the idea of being somewhere else without having to leave your homeland...
WITH OR WITHOUT CLOTHES [PART OF FACTS AND GESTURES VOL. 2]
Messieurs DelmotteSomething strange is happening behind the bushes on a little square. One by one, several pieces of clothing are ejected from the bushes. But when Messieurs Delmotte leaves the bush, he is still wearing all of his clothes. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...
DE ZEEMANNEN EN HET SCHIP
Harald ThysIn ’The Sailors and the Ship’ two former sailors muse on their past from their apartment with a view on the sea wall. A male storyteller’s voice recounts their tale. Once upon a time they were brave seamen on a beautiful ship, led by a fantastic captain. But the death of their beloved captain caused the two man so much pain and sorrow, that they never spoke again...
REPÉRAGE
Herman AsselberghsWhy not remake 'Zabriskie Point'? Michelangelo Antonioni's early seventies film was about contemporary America seen from a distance. ‘Moi, j’ai regardé l’Amérique telle qu’elle m’est apparue, sans savoir ce qu’elle est,’ the Italian director stated, philosophically downplaying his thorough research into late sixties U.S. turmoil...
INVITATION TO THE VOYAGE / L'INVITATION AU VOYAGE
Meggy RustamovaMeggy Rustamova’s film Invitation to the voyage / L’invitation au voyage (2014), which derives its title from a poem by Baudelaire, is a suggestive examination of the potential of photography to tell stories (or history) and to let fact and fiction move closer together until the fuzziness of the pixels creating each photo has also taken hold of the narrative...
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...
COMMUNICATION
Hans Op de BeeckWithin an abandoned post office painted white, a life sized projection shows a man at one of the counters stamping a huge pile of papers and envelopes, avoiding all communication. The work also exists as a smaller video sculpture. (Source: www.hansopdebeeck.com)...
LES VACANCES DE MONSIEUR MAG [FRENCH VERSION]
Jef Cornelis’Les Vacances de Monsieur MAG’ tracks the development of René Magritte’s body of work, and it also sheds a light on the persona of the artist, as well as on his views on being an artist...
