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GIROUETTE
Mira SandersSanders films a weather vane on the Nieuwe Graanmarkt/ Nouveau marché au Grains in the centre of Brussels. Looking through the eye of the camera, it takes Sanders a little while to realize that at a certain moment, once the wind is blowing, the gilded weather vane has a blinding effect in the sun. Because of the camera placement, the film creates a magical time space for the viewer....
INSTRUCTION FOR USE
Edith DekyndtA silent animated drawing created out of manuals for consumption objects for public or private use. Dekyndt combines an inventory of daily instruction, but, in this way, the slide show questions our formatted consumeristic experience and faces us to the aesthetics of how-to included in ordinary packagings and their universal codified language....
RED TAPE
Cel CrabeelsThe tape shows an extract of the video installation ’Red Tape’ this installation explores the temporal dimension in moving images by looping two basic movements of the camera, the transformation of a spatial barrier to the temporal one. The installation strove to test the meaning of the conversation from first to the second one....
DRIE BLINDE MUIZEN
Jef CornelisA report on three collectors of contemporary art: Martin Visser, Frits Becht and Hubert Peeters. They talk about their buying policy, how they built up their collections and their favourite works and artists. Original broadcast date: 18/06/1968 Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Titles...
LE PETIT TOURISTE
Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel BonnemaisonA ’train movie’ in the Urubamba valley, where a young gringo seems to be having bad dreams. All the racket of the train and the sound of a local band punctuate the elliptical editing of a phoney narrative, which pretends to end in Cuzco....
LA TROISIÈME VOIE
Lucile DesamoryWhile reading, a nun is waiting for the train on the platform of the station. A pickpocket thief grabs her suitcase. The nun starts the pursuit....
_IMOVIE[2]_: IN-BETWEEN / SHIFTING
Els Opsomer‘_Imovie_[2] in-between/shifting’ is the second video Opsomer made with the amateur software package ‘iLife’, supplied with Apple computers. The video consists of photographies of cities in Brazil and Senegal, which Opsomer visited...
Take into the air my quiet breath, 2007, Julia Meltzer & David Thorne © the artists
TAKE INTO THE AIR MY QUIET BREATH
Julia Meltzer - David ThorneIn 1966, the Syrian government’s Ministry of Endowments solicited plans for a building to replace a 14th-century Mamluk mosque in Martyr’s Square in the centre of Damascus. A young architect proposed a design for a 5-star hotel and new mosque. In 1971, his plans were scrapped. In 1982, building started on a new structure...
CHARLES VANDENHOVE, LA MAISON SCHOFFENIELS
Jef CornelisA general and a more detailed view on the Schoffeniels Residence are presented: a plan of the house, pictures of the entrance, ground floor, stairs, kitchen... Original broadcast date: 25/03/1970 Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’15" General view of Professor Schoffeniels’s house in the hills in the region of Herve (architect : Charles Van Denhove). 00’36" Plan of the house...
