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BELONG

Shelly Silver
Behind her desk, probably in her university office, a woman talks about belonging and argues that nobody really belongs to something nowadays. While she speaks, Silver edited old photographs of people from disparate origins as well as different cities and landscapes. The final static shot shows the Seine banks, the flag of France and a woman playing with her dog....

VIOLIN FASE

Eric Pauwels - Eric Pauwels - Eric Pauwels
A solo in two movements; dance and camera. Eric Pauwels twirls the camera around the body of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. What we see is not the geometrical and minimalist choreographic structure, but a possessed woman, bathing in sweat, exploring the boundaries of physical exhaustion. A solo in two movements: the dance and the camera. Four uninterrupted takes...

MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Jef Cornelis
In this short documentary film, Georges Adé (1936-1992), is sitting in the Antwerp municipal library, presents the book Culture is our business (1970) by the Canadian philosopher and communication theorist Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980). Adé shows reproductions of advertisements from the book and reads extracts from it...

NUIT DEBOUT (INSTALLATION)

Nelson Makengo
darkness > in the depths of the working class neighbourhoods, in the absurdity of the rubble of endless nights,night > in this nocturnal shipwreck of the physical and symbolic power cut,resistance > abandoned to itself like a motherless chick, like a pot without a lid, like a house without a window, without a door, like a door without a lock, like a lock without a key.....
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IN THE ABSENCE OF HEROES (PART IV): WARFARE / A CASE FOR CONTEXT

Jayce Salloum
In the Absence of Heroes: Warfare/A Case for Context was part of a continuing series of works investigating social manifestations filling the gaps in our lives through media/corporate and government propagated images and idea(l)s. The videotapes present contextualized concepts/fragments of personal/emotional traumatic experiences and conflict...

BUCHAREST 8 MARCH 2022

Mira Sanders
In the video Bucharest 8 March 2022, we listen to a voice message that shares city experiences and impressions from a walk in Bucharest city centre. Throughout the message, we understand that it is the first time that the narrator has been there...
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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 52. LOVE LETTER TO DOUG

Steve Reinke
I think it’s true what they say in all those songs: falling in love requires overvaluing the tiny ways in which one individual varies from another....

MY NAME IS KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN

Steve Reinke
This is the atomic age; the material itself must be part of the creative act. One no longer forms a given material, one must also create the material.” Loosely adapted from interviews Stockhausen gave in the late 60s and early 70s. Vera Frenkel voices the composer. DNA structures, molecular life and astral projections fuse in synesthetic visions rooted in aurality....

ROBERT HOUBEN, MINISTER VAN STAAT

Jef Cornelis
Robert J. Houben (1905-1992) was a Belgian Politician and a member of the Christian Social Party (at the time called Christelijke Volks Partij or CVP). In 1969 he was declared ‘Minister of State’ (Minister van Staat), an honorary title granted by royal decree to prominent politicians who made an outstanding effort in public life. In 1980-81, Cornelis filmed Houben in his home interior...

DE TREIN VOORBIJ

Jef Cornelis
Original broadcast date: 05/09/1980...