OVERVIEW TITLES

THE SICKNESS

Messieurs Delmotte
In this early piece, Messieurs Delmotte is painting a series of words on the back of a performer: rabies (rage), lepra (lèpre), pest (peste), tuberculose, cholera, cancer, aids (sida)....

ET[-

Peter Downsbrough
ET[- opens with a silent black-and-white close-up of a vertical rod shuttling back and forth across a mechanical loom. The short sequence could be mistaken for footage from an early 20th-century propaganda film. Cut sharply to the next scene, also in black and white and taken from a fixed position but unmistakably contemporary...

CIRCULAR INSCRIPTION

Lukas Marxt
A mountain range on the horizon separates the cloudy sky from the dusty desert soil of the El Mirage Dry Lake, with the sounds of a distant roar. In the long shot, the gaze shows a detail of the Californian Mojave landscape, whose static panorama forms the referential and also material background for Circular Inscription...

THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

Steve Reinke
Spoken in the voice of American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, with a soundtrack of a picked-appart Black Sabbath song, ‘Fairies Wear Boots’. Dahmer has a monologue for each of his seventeen victims. The artist’s autobiography as a serial killer....

DESSINE-MOI UN SOUVENIR

Miléna Desse
Anchoring its subject in the intimate relationship between the filmmaker and her grandmother, Dessine-moi un souvenir is an attempt to question memory and its transmission on a personal as well as inter-generational and political level....

DOCUMENTA 4

Jef Cornelis
When Professor Arnold Bode thought up Documenta 1 in 1955, his first job was putting West-Germany, arisen from the ashes, back on the international map. When Documenta 4 takes place in 1968 the international art world is entangled in an authority crisis as well, as Roger Raveel indicates: ”worn threadbare”...

VOX CLAMANS IN DESERTO

Ria Pacquée
’Vox Clamans in Deserto’ is a combination of filmed reality (blood running down streets after a ritual slaughter in Moroccan Medina) and performance (a woman flinging sand into her face), intersected with a plain bright red screen...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 58. MINNESOTA INVENTORY

Steve Reinke
I like mechanics magazines. I have a good appetite. I awake fresh and rested most mornings. There seems to be a lump in my throat much of the time. I enjoy detective or mystery stories....

SIMONE

Eva Giolo - Aglaia Konrad
Simone brings to the fore the work of the too little-known modernist architect Simone Guillissen-Hoa, one of the first female architects in Belgium to have her own office in the 1940s. The film is composed of a series of observations of the houses and buildings that she designed and of archival material that reveals the architect’s own gaze...

GIRLS AND PHILOSOPHERS

Koen Theys
Video installation for two projectors. A diptych or triptych – depending on how you look at it. ’Girls and Philosophers’ sets out from two screens. Together they make out a diptych, with directly facing panels. In between, however, there is also the area which is marked off by the screens, where the spectators move about...