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L'ESCALE

Anne Reijniers - Paul Shemisi Betutua - Nizar Saleh Mohamedali - Rob Jacobs
Filmmakers Paul Shemisi and Nizar Saleh travel from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Germany for the screening of their new film. During a layover in Angola, they're stopped at the airport because the airline doesn't trust their documents to be real...

RED TAPE

Cel Crabeels
The 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....

STANDING OVATION

Bernard Gigounon
The original soundtrack of a clip excerpted from Jean Renoir’s short film ‘Une partie de campagne’ (1936) picturing a river under heavy rain has been switched. Applauses in a concert hall are here recalling the sound of the rain. The video was originally edited as part of an in-situ installation during a concert by Martha Argerich at the Royal Music Academy...

FANCY FLAGS WALK

Messieurs Delmotte
This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 2...

AND ALIGN

Peter Downsbrough
A fixed long viewpoint of a busy intersection is ultimately interrupted by a 180° travelling. A woman is sauntering along the street lines, almost bored. The passing of time is prominent. An everyday environment is rendered as a modernist architectonical environment; order and disorder are shown in observation, and dissected...

TWISTED REALISM

Maria Iorio - Raphaël Cuomo
Twisted Realism takes cases in italian cinema in the period of post-war reconstruction and “economic miracle” as starting point to investigate different “aesthetics of reality” and the genealogy of this epoch marked by a re-organisation of capitalism, increasing consumption, new economical and cultural influences, a large national migration, and the emergence of new technol...

HOSTAGE: THE BACHAR TAPES (ENGLISH VERSION)

The Atlas Group - Walid Raad
"Hostage: The Bachar Tapes (English version) is a multi-part videotape about ’The Western Hostage Crisis’. The crisis refers to the abduction and detention in Lebanon in the 1980’s and early 1990’s of western men like Terry Anderson and Terry Waite by ’Islamic militants’...

THE CONTENT OF THE STATE

Grace Schwindt
A two screen installation video piece. Screen 1: The Content of the State is Family, but also Law, Health, Religion, Jew, German, Nation, Race, People, Human Kind, Ancestor, Men, We, You (plural), You (singular). A convergence to and distancing from a document (“Explanatory Leaflet for Those Getting Married”, published in Germany in approx...

TENANT

Grace Schwindt
In Tenant, the family home becomes the stage to re-enact a scripted dialogue that takes as a starting point a story about Mrs. Schumacher who was the lodger of the artist's grandfather in Berlin during the Second World War. She was a communist and helped Vladimir Lenin travel from Switzerland to Russia in 1917 after the February Revolution broke out...

DJ REVERSE

Messieurs Delmotte
In ’DJ Reverse’ Messieurs Delmotte parodies an icon of popular culture and music: the deejay. He puts on a record that plays a disco tune. Then Delmotte starts dancing and scratching the record badly, screaming ’baby baby baby’. This work is part of the series FränZ ünd KoFöN...