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SEA OF TRANQUILLITY
Hans Op de BeeckThe medium-length film ’Sea of Tranquillity’ is a combination of live video recordings of actors and digitally-generated 3D environments in which the viewer makes a night-time visit to a mysterious, mythical cruise liner, the ’Sea of Tranquillity’...
PREHISTORICAL STILLS
Charley CaseCase follows the Brussels-based artist, performer and actor Dirk Hendrikx to his atelier where he performs ‘Prehistorical stills’, an intensive piece of body art involving earth and fire – but also sawdust, stones and a couple of nails. We witness how this singular artist makes ‘paintings’ from the positive imprint of his body....
SMOKE-PRODUCING
Messieurs DelmotteDressed in a checkered suit Delmotte lights a small piece of phosphorous on his jacket. It burns a round hole and produces a lot of white smoke. Messieurs Delmotte repeats the performance, keeping a straight face. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...
IJSBREKER 02: DE CULTUUR IN DE KRANT
Jef Cornelis - Freddy Coppens - Mark De Geest - Jackie ClaeysThis episode of ’Ijsbreker’ examines the matter of cultural reporting in Flemish newspapers, and more particularly in the quality newspapers De Morgen and De Standaard...
DRIE MINUTEN, RINGAUTOBAAN, TREKKEN, ROLTRAP, STOP STAP STOP STAP...
Filip FrancisThree minutes of a close-up on a clock. Suddenly, and unexpectedly, a close-up on the white lines of a highway appears. Speed and minimalism melt together. The next image is that of a labourer, lugging a pile of cables. The movement of an escalator in a subway station follows and finally the flickering of a traffic light for pedestrians changes from red to green and back again...
VITA NOVA
Vincent MeessenIn his famous essay Mythologies (1957), Roland Barthes demystified the French colonial imperialism by means of a photograph that appeared on the cover of Paris-Match. This picture, that became an icon of modern criticism, shows a colonial cadet on guard.Vita Nova unveils the biographical ghost underneath the surface of this mythical picture...
Avant-garde citizens: Janneke’s story, 2007, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson © the artists
AVANT-GARDE CITIZENS: JANNEKE’S STORY
Libia Castro - Ólafur ÓlafssonWith families and holiday-makers passing her as she relates her tale, Janneke’s story seems out of place on a beach. Janneke is a Dutch activist who, after protesting against the treatment of interned immigrants, was herself imprisoned under the Immigration Act for refusing to present her name and passport...
ORNAMENTE DES WILLENS
Koen TheysUsing the same images as in ‘Mediastudien (nach Heinrich Hoffmann)’, Koen Theys continues here in transforming Hitler’s body as a decorative ornament. The title is a combination of ‘Das Massornament’ by Siegfried Kracauer and ‘Triumph des Willens’ by Leni Riefenstahl. The piano was improvised in realtime with the projection of the video....
FROM [ TO ]
Peter DownsbroughIn FROM [ TO ], the image slides past a motorway, past countless trucks, petrol stations and containers. Objects are isolated from their environment and articulated in a repetitive, almost architectural structure....
