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CLAMOR

Edurne Rubio
People who committed suicide and babies who died before being baptised were not accepted in Catholic cemeteries until not so long ago. Desperate relatives secretly sought out a dignified place for their bodies. Burials that shared hills and wind with executed people, atheists, passers-by, Protestants.....

Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist

SILENT LETTERS

Mira Sanders
Silent letter is divided into six monitors. Five of them present a video sequence in which lines of sharing, contours, observation, positioning (1 x n) in the landscape, urban space, and the artist studio, are introduced. Each video, inscribed with a date, delivers the story of a foreign observer. This story is subtitled on a black screen...

ER LIGT EEN VIDEO IN DE SOEP

Stefaan Decostere
An overview of the history of video art till 1983. Unconventional in style and international in scope, the work presents an overview of artists and independents working in television. Excerpts of tapes, installations and interviews are introduced through playful use of sophisticated graphics...

CASCADEURS (RIVIÈRES)

Michel François
A waterfall. Now and then a person lets the water carry him down. The irregular gaps between the split-second appearances of the people sliding down underscore the continual flow of the water....

CHERRY BLOSSOMS

An van. Dienderen
Carly is working late at night in one of the many translation booths in a dark plenary hall of the European Parliament. It is the only place worldwide where everyday ​​work is translated in 23 languages. Carly exerts to translate a documentary about Japanese subculture. Without specific interest for the theme she translates monotonically from the Japanese...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 77. AMOEBA

Steve Reinke
This amoeba describes a libido which is not solely my libido, but a force, an external force. For the amoeba, movement is not movement, but simply a way of being because it does not move though space but simply is. The concept of space is obliterated by the amoeba’s virtual omnipotence. Also, it is sexless and through its sexlessness, immortal. It survives every division...

THE WHOLE SKIN TYPES CATALOG (A TEPID SUMMER)

Edith Dekyndt
In order to construct this work Dekyndt made a filmed review of different skins – used as a colour palette. The backs of different persons were filmed, focusing each time on the spot between the shoulder blades. The interweaving and the succession of skins, from very light to very dark, account for the diversity and unique texture of each skin...

DCA SPIEL

Hänzel & Gretzel
A scratched karaoke featuring among others a barking Vietnam war soldier, a blind knife magician and hypnotic comments on historical Olympic Games - an early rhythmic work....

LIED VAN MIJN LAND - DEEL 1: DAS RHEINGOLD

Frank Theys - Koen Theys
This is the first part of the diptych Lied van mijn Land (’Song of my Soil’), based on Richard Wagner’s operas ’Der Ring der Nibelungen’ and ’Parcifal’. In ’Der Ring der  Nibelungen’, an interpretation of a germanic mythological epic, the composer associates power with the possession of gold...

RUE FRANCIS

François Vogel
From the balcony of an apartment at the Parisian rue Francis a camera embodies the fixed centre of a visual journey: an immobile eye which, due to variable focus, is mobile at the same time. The result is a whirlwind of perspectives, edited in a way that is not apparently subject to rhyme or reason...