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THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS
Michel CouturierThe shipping lane between Calais and the cliffs of Dover is the busiest in the world. This stretch of water is also the favoured route used by illegal immigrants in their attempt to reach the United Kingdom from Calais. The west-east axis of global trade is perpendicular to the south-north axis of migration triggered by war and poverty...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 61. SPARKY
Steve ReinkeThe original Apollo moon landings were not televised live. Instead a 17 second delay was instituted....
THE BREATHING LESSON
Dora GarcíaAlthough Dora Garcia (°1965, Valladolid, Spain) produces work that is mostly performative and installation-based, video is used as a means to question the boundaries between representation and reality. The artist engages herself with the question of what is real and what is fiction, and thus visitors become protagonists in a fiction- sometimes knowingly, sometimes not...
ONE IN TWO
Charley CaseHitler and Jesus? Through a peep-hole that gradually increases in size we see a man with a Hitler-like moustache screaming and moving frantically. Distorted vocal noises sound in the background. ‘Hitler’ gets unshaven – everything is played backwards – revealing a Christ-like figure with a beard...
LOOK AT ME
Uri Tzaig - Avi ShahamIn the video Look at me, translations take place on different levels. With references to silent film (black-and-white, slightly faltering, silent, text signs, images with rounded edges,...) the work shows age-old elderly people, looking for a confrontation with the spectator in close up...
LIAISONS DANGEREUSES
Charley CaseSymbols such as the Star of David, the Taijitu (the yin-yang sign) and the swastika pop up on the screen, alternating ever faster, with glowing colours illuminating their contours. Accompanied by repetitive string and deep bass-driven music, the images have a hypnotizing effect. The pace of their movement accelerates with the music until all symbols merge in one light-pulsing sphere....
VAN BASSENGWERKER TOT HAVENARBEIDER (ANTWERPEN)
Jef CornelisIn 1965 more than 13,000 labourers set to work every day in the port of Antwerp and even then, every day there was a shortage of workers. “The Antwerp docker is the quickest in the world,” we hear in this creative documentary, “though they never had any specific training for their job—except for the markers...
RUE FRANCIS
François VogelFrom 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...
