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SUPERPOSITION

Filip Francis
This work is the result of a collaboration between Filip Francis, Luc Deleu and Wout Vercammen. It is an early experiment with image in image, split screen, zoom in, fading, overlaps and other techniques that made the medium video—just out of the cradle in the 1970s—so exciting. The three artists took the camera and set out with great enthusiasm...

THE NEURASTHENIC

Hubert Marécaille
On learning that cancer can be hereditary, and immediately persuaded to have a strong risk due to his familyʼs history, an unemployed person consults a medium, who, pessimistic about its future, suddenly puts in doubt all his efforts to fit into society : his life then seems invain and useless, at the thought of his approaching death constantly on his mind...  ...

LE CORPS VERBAL: UN VOYAGE DANS L'UNIVERS DE MARCEL MOREAU (COURT-MÉTRAGE)

Charley Case - Manuela de Tervarent
The writings of the francophone Belgian writer Marcel Moreau (°1934, Boussu) are little known to the larger audience. Although he is considered a marginal writer with an idiosyncratic, instinctive, both organic and lyrical style, he is the author of a considerable body of work. Case and de Tervarent made this short but sparkling portrait that shows the writer in his daily environment...

FLASHFORWARD

Eran Schaerf - Eva Meyer
The work of Meyer and Schaerf explores the transitional area between the meaningless and the meaningful, especially the process during which unrelated scraps of meaning move between various possibilities, ultimately converging into a cluster of emotions and associations. At the same time traditional sign systems of language, image and sound are undermined and new relations are proposed...

WOMAN WALKING

Charley Case
A screen split in three. A woman giving birth in hospital. A pregnant belly just a few hours before. And nothing but the feet and legs of a man (or woman?) walking through deserts, mud, rivers, over rocks and mountains, asphalt and sidewalks and over a city rooftop, where (s)he ultimately loses the balance and drops to the ground. Once again, birth and death meet....

THE BLACK SEA FILES

Ursula Biemann
The Black Sea Files is a piece of territorial research on the geography of the world’s oldest oil extraction zone – the Caspian. A giant new subterranean pipeline traversing the Caucasus will soon pump Caspian Crude to the West. The line connecting the resource fringe with the terminus of the global high-tech oil circulation system runs through the video like a central thread...

WELCOME TO DAVID WOJNAROWICZ WEEK

Steve Reinke
Steve Reinke celebrates a week-long holiday inspired by the artist David Wojnarowicz, day by day. The holiday's motto: MORE RAGE, LESS DISGUST....

Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist

SILENT LETTER 20012009

Mira Sanders
The third 'Silent Letter' was written on January 19th, 2009. The inter- and subtitles refer to the act of drawing. A short way into the video, we see images of radio-commanded model airplanes. A fourth theme is made explicit here: the (clear) line. Throughout the letter, the line is connected with the theme of the border, to be defended by ''guards''....

SPEECH BUBBLE

Adam Leech
The main concerns of Adam Leech’s work are the semantics of voice versus speech and the political engineering of public space and community. Speech Bubble began as an investigation into the bankruptcy of the Belgian high-tech speech recognition company, Lernout & Hauspie...

FRÄNZ ÜND KOFÖN [PART]

Messieurs Delmotte
A short video, part of a serial, in which Monsieur Delmotte pretends to be a German Artist. Standing in front of a door, he holds a seemingly very serious and highbrow speech in a language that is supposed to represent German. Only here and there words like “Ausstellung, Künstles, Sheisse,…” are understandable. This work is part of the series FränZ ünd KoFöN...