OVERVIEW TITLES

IJSBREKER 13: CULTURELE CENTRA (KLEINE)

Jackie Claeys - Jef Cornelis - Mark De Geest - Karel Schoetens
Probably culture is something which has always been around. But apart from the culture which is just there, there is distributed culture as well. Implicitly this means that it gets through to big cities before anywhere else...

CONCRETE & SAMPLES II: BLOCKHAUS

Aglaia Konrad
Concrete & Samples I, II, III is a series of 16mm films on sculptural architecture. What the buildings and site in all films have in common is the idea of ‘architecture as sculpture’ and a very distinct use of concrete that seem to depart from the free form of the whole in a sculptural manner...

ECHO VALLEY

Steve Reinke
An echo is the return of an originating voice in a distorted and diminished way. In ‘Echo Valley’, there are no originating voices, but only endless, undiminished echoes. This slight, frothy videotape manages to juxtapose high and low culture idioms in a way that undermines their respective implications and creates new hybrids....

LA CHAMELLE BLANCHE

Xavier Christiaens
What if Ulysses, returning from his travels, had found only indecipherable shreds, shards, dark and shifting landscapes, splintered vestiges of his past? A disturbing disorder reigns all around, putting eyes and ears in a constant state of expectation, prisoners of these fragments of a reality so gripping, obtuse, impossible to avoid and yet misleading, fleeing and opaque...

THE PERFECT WAVE

Nicolas Provost
The Perfect Wave is a fascinating looped video of a surfer who keeps going and going on what indeed looks like a perfect wave. It’s a metaphor for what the artist calls the human desire for an endless orgasm....

L'Atelier - Le Public, 2008, Mira Sanders © the artist

L'ATELIER

Mira Sanders
In ’L’Atelier (extrait)’, Mira Sanders brings together a set of imaginary figures personifying an audience in a scale model of a theatre space as if it were a micro-society. This is the first work in which Mira Sanders introduced human figures...

FOR THE RECORD

Fleur Khani - Ailien Reyns
This audiovisual work offers a contemporary insight in the lives of people in a metropole and researches more specifically the different forms of proximity. Through the images as well as the voice-over, the film aims to reformulate the question of proximity in contemporary urban society...

FRIDAY FISHDAY

Jan Bucquoy
The fifth part of The sex life of the Belgians tells the story of a man who refuses to or who cannot make love to women who smell strongly of fish. Returning to his native village Harelbeke and then to Ostend, film maker Bucquoy reflects on his aims as an artist and film director. “I’m fed up with making films for some hundred people. This time we’re going to be real machos...

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...

INSERT COIN FOR LOVE

Hans Op de Beeck
The coin drops into the slot machine and a scene reminiscent of a peepshow appears. A woman rotates on a red velvet podium. She looks bored and refuses to perform. The work also exists as a single channel video projection. (Source: www.hansopdebeeck.com)...