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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 68. LOVE AMONG CORPSES
Steve ReinkeWhen we die the part of us that belongs to other people becomes an angel....
TARLABAŞI VE BEN
Jaad Gaillet - Marianna FranceseAfter many years in jail, Mustafa, a man in his fifties, decides to leave his native village and his family in the eastern Turkey to take refuge in the Turkish metropolis, in Istanbul. From Çağlayan to Kadikoy, his ephemeral wanderings in Istanbul finally lead him in the neighborhood of Tarlabaşı, where he settles and reinvents his life as a waste picker...
Gnawa, Olivier Dekegel, 2010 © the artist & producer
GNAWA
Olivier DekegelA medium-length film produced and distributed by the director, a true cinephile, lover and connoisseur of classic and experimental cinema. Filmed on Super 8, Gnawa is an immersive flood, a sensorial trip to the magico-religious rites of the Gnawa in Morocco, made with such virtuosity that it elevates the viewer, cinematographically, into a trance akin to that of the dancers and musicians depicted...
S*CKMYP [4 SHORT FILMS VERSION]
Kurt D'HaeseleerS*CKMYP drops the spectator in a world continuously bombarded with digital fragmentation bombs. People wander through a kaleidoscopic labyrinth of trembling bodies and mutating buildings until they are swallowed by a yawning void. Lost pixels nestle like parasites under the skin and drag them through an everyday world that looks strange beyond recognition...
LE ROMAN DE FAUVEL
Joëlle de La CasinièreA musical video book. A screen adaptation of manuscript ’Fr. 146’ at the Bibliothèque Nationale of France. A work devised, written and produced at home by de la Casinière on her personal computer...
VEGETATIVE STATES: AN ATTEMPT TO INSTIL AND MEASURE ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN HOUSEHOLD PLANTS
Steve Reinke - John MarriottSeductive and eerie, ’Vegetative States’ observes an experiment in which a lush, potted Peace Lily is wired to a polygraph (lie detector) device and is then shown hypnotic art videos, while a technician monitors its responses. This attempt to influence and measure perception quickly morphs into a genre blurring deconstruction of point of view...
SCRUB SOLO 1: SOLONELINESS
Antonin De BemelsScrub Solo 1: ’Soloneliness’ is the first film experiment between Antonin De Bemels and choreographer Bud Blumenthal. A dancer facing a mirror, in a fixed frame, tries to catch his own reflection, the body incessantly turning round on itself. At times there is no more than an abstraction of white light, while at others his hand seems to pass through the mirror...
HEXHAM HEADS
Chloë Delanghe - Mattijs DriesenTinted by the red safelight of the darkroom, the film (re)constructs a breathless pastoral horror about a place crystallized in time and terrorized by two 6cm tall stone heads whose current location remains unknown...
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’...
BRING US TO OURSELVES, MIKHAÏL
Emmanuel Van der AuweraIn an airport somewhere, a puppet of Mikhaïl Gorbatchev gives a monologue in the dark, gripped by the threat of the catastrophe erupting outside. Powerless and unable to react, he awaits the creeping collapse of his world. Bring us to ourselves, Mikhaïl is a video-essay, somewhere in between a fiction-documentary and a filmed puppet-show...
