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EVERYBODY LOVES NOTHING (EMPATHIC EXERCIZES)
Steve ReinkeReinke completed ‘Everbody Loves Nothing’ during his stay as an artist-in-residence at Video In in Vancouver. For this film, Reinke used archival footage from the Prelinger Archive in New York. The seven episodes are linked thematically. Each one takes an archival clip and inserts a narrator who, while speaking in the first person, moves smoothly between the first and third....
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 100. WHY I'VE DECIDED TO BECOME A PAINTER
Steve ReinkeLately I’ve been thinking about orange....
JUMPY RABBIT
Messieurs DelmotteA white rabbit in a grass field is forced to jump by means of two elastic strings attached to its body. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...
HEDENDAAGSE KERKENBOUW OP EEN KEERPUNT
Jef CornelisInspired by the book ‘In een of ander huis, kerkbouw op een keerpunt’, in which Geert Beckaert reflects on modern church building as a critical function, a number of thinkers and writers, priests and architects (Renaat Braem, Godfried Danneels, Réné Geysen and Geert Beckaert himself) address religious patronage in architecture in the past and the present, architecture as ...
DE STRAAT
Jef CornelisThere is not much more left of the street than – to use a term by Le Corbusier – a machine of movement, equipped to make traffic run smoothly. The street in its original and spontaneous form, as a breeding ground for new life, is restrained. The efficiency controlling the traffic grid does not merely affect the existing living area, but also the form and pattern of new living...
LAURIEN, SEPTEMBER 2001
Manon de BoerFrom her dozens of portraits, Manon de Boer chose two, ‘Robert, June 1996’ and ‘Laurien, March 1996’, which she would - and still does - portray over an over again: the same individuals, in the same position, and within the same visual frame...
LA COULEUR DE LA BRIQUE
Bie MichelsThe 485 km long Ikopa river passes through Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. In the middle of the wide river there is what looks like a miniature town, right in the middle of the metropolis. Here, on a manufacturing site called La Digue, the inhabitants use the river mud to make bricks. Elsewhere in the city and in the countryside there are similar sites...
DIVINATIONS
Sarah VanagtChildren from Brussels, Athens and Sarajevo roll out strips of transparent tape onto the streets where they were raised. When they peel back the tape it is left with an imprint of the city: dust, sand, sweet wrappers, insects, glass, fluff ... An ultra-realistic diary that is brought to life by an old magic lantern. Do all these shapes and images tell us something about the future?...
SANTIAGO DE CHILE
Jef CornelisSantiago de Chile, 1.500.000 inhabitants, is today recovering from the umpteenth dictatorship and from the exodus of intellectuals. Visual artist Juan Davila (Santiago, 1946) returned from Australia, where he had been living since 1974, especially for this film. He holds a dialogue with his colleague Eugenio Dittborn (Santiago, 1944) about dictatorship, staying or leaving, elitism and childhood...
CARLO VAN NESTE – VIOOLVIRTUOOS
Jef CornelisCarlo van Neste, Belgian virtuoso and chamber musician born in 1914, is acclaimed both nationally and internationally. He teaches at the conservatories of Brussels and Utrecht, where he has prepared countless young violinists for the international stage...
