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UN FILM

Eric Pauwels
Three people walk across the fields in French-Flanders and along the North Sea coast during the last three days of the year. A man, a woman, a man with a camera. The journey exposes the character of the landscape. Flemish clogs of earth stick on their feet. The open, flat space is covered by a dark, grey sky...

LE CLOU

Messieurs Delmotte
Always ironic towards the art world, Messieurs Delmotte explains how his piece has been taken off an exhibition in favor of another artist. All what’s left is the nail : le clou....

BEGINNINGS

Roy Villevoye
In his work Roy Villevoye (1960) explores issues around anthropological representation, the conventions of documentary filmmaking and the heritage of colonialism. Even though his videos, often realized in collaboration with Jan Dietvorst, are frequently considered documentaries, he distances himself explicitly from the genre...

MISSION MONT DES ARTS

Sven Augustijnen
Sven Augustijnen was invited by the Koning Boudewijnstichting to follow the ‘Commissie Kunstberg’ on their numerous meetings and walks. For a number of years this commission has been striving for a revaluation of the Kunstberg (or Mont des Arts) in Brussels through a series of initiatives...

THE BIRDER

Grace Schwindt
The Birder focuses on fragility in a world driven by capitalist logic. In a capitalist society it is easy to forget that bodies are vulnerable and death does not seem to exist – until it happens...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 32. I LOVE YOU, TOO

Steve Reinke
Lately I’ve been receiving rather desperate and obsessive letters from persons who have fallen in love with me. They’ve never met me and have no idea what I look like. It is simply the grain of my voice which has inspired their apparent devotion....

INTER[POSE, Peter Downsbrough, 2009 © the artist & producer

INTER[POSE

Peter Downsbrough
inter[POSE is a video project shot off-season in Deal, Kent (UK). It focuses on the town’s shoreline and the 1950s modernist pier (the last to be built in the UK)...

QUE SERÁ SERÁ: SOSIE D'ELVIS

Jacques Lederlin - Joëlle de La Casinière
In a tournament of look-alikes, the winner is a robot that resembles Elvis Presley perfectly. A man is singing about this strange event....

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 21. SQUEEZING SORROW FROM AN ASHTRAY

Steve Reinke
"We know the air is filled with vibrations that we can’t hear. In ’Variations VII’, I tried to use sounds from that inaudible environment. But we can’t consider environment as an object. We know that it’s a process. While in the case of the ashtray, we are indeed dealing with an object...

THE HOUSES THAT ARE LEFT

Shelly Silver
"The Houses That Are Left is a story of mortality, friendship, revenge, murder and the supernatural, as two friends come together to try to figure out how to live, while being besieged by malignant messages from the dead...