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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)....
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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 37. JASON

Steve Reinke
When I was eight my mother died and I went to live with my grandfather who was very old....

A CITY REMIX

Kurt D'Haeseleer
An answer to the genre of “city symphonies”, ‘A City Remix’ offers a look at the generic, expanded and ex/imploded contemporary cities. Sociological, urban, economical and personal patterns are woven into a work where each image relates both to every other image and to daily life. An attempt to show what our high-speed culture has made invisible...

WINDY APPEARANCE

Messieurs Delmotte
In front of his camera, Messieurs Delmotte poses in a park. With precision and highly concentrated, he licks cigarette rolling papers that he sticks onto his face. The wind plays an important role in this remarkable performance. This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 2...
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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 08. WHY I STOPPED GOING TO FOREIGN FILMS

Steve Reinke
Cross-cut images of Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev, Buñuel’s Viridiana or Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria with scenes of homosexual sex....

... BECAUSE SUPERGLUE IS FOREVER!!!

Johan Grimonprez
“Yesterday Salam Khamas, at the age of 93, married Mrs.Um Ahmed, at the tender age of 105, in the town of Basra, Iraq. It was sunny. The newly weds were both found dead in their honeymoon bed this morning. Mrs.Um Ahmed was still wearing her wedding dress...

IN [ TO

Peter Downsbrough
The silent, ultra-short black-and-white video IN [ TO is shorter than a video clip: it clocks in at 2 minutes, 47 seconds. It was made with material shot exclusively for the film, plus footage filmed 'on the occasion', while Downsbrough was working on other projects...

DE ZEGE VAN DE SLANG / LE TRIOMPHE DU SERPENT

Jan Vromman
An ode to simplicity. In this video the universe is reduced to the limits of a terrarium. But since the setting is rather barren and the beast so solitary, God separates the sky from the earth and populates the world with animals and plants. But then he commits a grave error by installing men in the centre of this universe, because before one notices, hell itself brakes loose....
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LETTRE À JEAN ROUCH

Eric Pauwels
This film is a moving tribute to French filmmaker Jean Rouch. Pauwels, a former collaborator of Rouch, accompanies him on a trip to Japan. In this cinematic letter, which he himself calls “a journey into the memory”, Pauwels philosophises about the essence of cinema and, consequently, of life....

MONTEVIDEO

Jef Cornelis
Montevideo (Uruguay), 1.300.000 inhabitants, borders on the same river (La Plata) as Buenos Aires. At the end of the 19th century an art scene bloomed here, which stands out favourably against the rest of the continent...