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NEED ANY HELP?
Nicolas Provost’Need any help?’ is about the encounter of two lonesome people. They are both hampered by a chronic lack of time. This low-budget film is inspired by b-film genre qualities....
PIETER ENGELS, PARAMARCHE (REVERSE EVENT)
Jef CornelisCornelis prefers to make use of the medium of television to show a work by the Amsterdam artist Pieter Engels in its conceptual form, in stead of supplying a typical purely sterile and pedantic framework. Similar to his other work from the 1960s and 1970s, Engels focuses on tiny, everyday things, creating confusion by questioning expectations and preconditions...
LA FARDE AUX CANARDS
Jacques Louis Nyst'La farde aux canards’ combines ducks with an array of functional objects (a foot bath, electrical cables, and so on), entities whose literal meanings have nothing whatsoever to do with one another, and which in that sense, also remain 'constant’ in substance. Nyst’s combinations, however, generate new and different meanings and in this case, the viewer’s hilarity....
AN ACT OF SHEATING
Ria PacquéeAt the end of the market, vendors are making their big sunshades ready for transport by covering them with a protective sheet. Blue, white, striped – these large umbrellas are as varied and individual as the vendors working them into their mismatched coverings...
DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS
Anne-Mie Van KerckhovenIn ‘Dance of the 7 Veils’, a fragment of Vanrunxt’s choreography ‘Sur scène’, the dancer performs his solo in a park in Schilde. Van Kerckhoven films the six minutes of choreography in one take. For three successive days, at six in the morning, at noon and at six in the evening, this scenario is repeated. These three takes are superimposed...
THE WELL-HEELED
Hubert MarécailleDevoid of close friends, a wealthy man, with perverse pleasures and lack of company, invites his aquaintances into his homes and gains the sympathy of his sons, promising an advantageous inheritance that another son refuses, causing irritation and total incomprehension, – irritation also created by his wife, that the man has bought her jewelry with his fortune « acquired honestly &raqu...
BIBA-NON-BIBA
Hänzel & GretzelThis whirling dance tape is a visual odyssey from Beirut to Berlin, a woman’s story set in the oppressive civil fragmentation of two divided cities where images of destruction and reconstruction are intermingled. A cutting edge poetic short, that maps out the roots of inner and outer landscapes...
CONTAINER
Messieurs DelmotteA bottle of wine is hanging from the side of a container. It is pulled towards the opening of the container by an invisible thread. Seconds before reaching the hole, the bottle falls to the ground and shatters. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...
THE RUNAWAY
Jan DietvorstA Dutchman speaks with authority about the ideas and customs of 'others'. It is the stereotype contrast between 'us' and 'them'. Gradually the relationship between these two becomes more ambiguous, the protagonists appear to be part of each others mythology....
WALLPAPER
Edith DekyndtA flower print on textile is extremely slowly moving in the wind. Is the a curtain? Where is it located? And what is happening behind, on the other side of it?...
