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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 24. VISUALS ELF
Steve ReinkePeople ask me, Steve, how do you manage to make so many films ? Why are they so prolific ? And I say, Oh they are not films but video. It is a simple and effortless process....
ALTOGETHER
Herman AsselberghsThe future is dark which is, on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think.” With this observation as a starting-point, “Altogether” fully acknowledges the ideological impasse of the post 68-era...
DIE RUINEN VON EUROPA
Ira A. GoryainovaIn a European union torn into several pro- and contra sides, facing a refugee crisis and in the same time the rise of the right, daily bombed by a plethora of opinions, fast food newsflashes and a continuous stream of images, a certain group of people resigns and looks at it all from the sidelines...
DE STRAAT
Jef CornelisThere is not much more left of the street than – to use a term by Le Corbusier – a machine of movement, equipped to make traffic run smoothly. The street in its original and spontaneous form, as a breeding ground for new life, is restrained. The efficiency controlling the traffic grid does not merely affect the existing living area, but also the form and pattern of new living...
APHASIA
Jelena JurešaAphasia focuses on the absurdity that arises from the collective silence surrounding crime and the compartmentalisation of historical events. In medical vocabulary ‘aphasia’ refers to the sufferer’s difficulty in finding words or losing the ability to speak...
DRIFTING
Hans Op de Beeck'Drifting' is a narrative video in which an old man is heard off-screen, bidding farewell to his beloved. It becomes clear from his account that she committed suicide when they were both still young. At the end of his life, he speaks of the tragedy and of her inconceivable beauty, which he carries in his memory...
THE WAVE
Sarah Vanagt - Katrien VermeireIn "The Wave" the archaeological gaze of the viewer is set in motion: a mass grave from the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) opens and closes itself. In 2011 we placed a camera above the spot where nine victims were buried after their execution by Franco’s supporters in June 1939...
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PLOT POINT
Nicolas ProvostThe crowded streets of New York City turn into fictive, cinematographic scenery. Provost is playing with our collective memory, its cinematic codes and narrative languages questioning the boundaries between a staged, suggested reality and authentic fiction...
