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THE SICKNESS
Messieurs DelmotteIn 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)....
THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US
Jan Locus'The Distance Between Us' takes its starting point in some audio cassettes artist and photographer Jan Locus received from a Moroccan family in Molenbeek a few years ago. Probably going back to the early 1980s, the cassettes contain an oral correspondence between families in Brussels and Morocco. These anonymous audio letters bear witness to the pain of those who stayed at home...
STILL HOLDING STILL
Sarah VanagtFrom the early days of photography, we know a series of photographs called ‘Invisible Mothers’. In each of these portraits of young children, a ghostly apparition is seen behind the children...
UNTITLED SIOBHAN VIDEO
Steve ReinkeReinke’s camera put in the hands of a young girl that wanders around in the house before finding her mother on the outdoor terrace . “My eyes are being flung around by this young child who wants to go to the beach, stop that!” (Reinke)...
EXTENDED HORIZON
Lukas MarxtLike a cultivated alien, Lukas Marxt wanders through a desert landscape guiding his reconnaissance by remote control. Everything is entirely normal, but both path and logic come to a sudden end at an abyss. Marxt perseveres while the sound of his alleged steps wafts away with the camera image into a void: three cheers for cinematic reality....
THE MAGGOTS
Messieurs DelmottePinned on a soundtrack of heavy metal jazz, Messieurs Delmotte is lying on a blue mattress. Out of his mouth are hundreds of little white maggots. A horror scene in overdrive or a fantasy? Part of the ‘Century of the 20th Sex’ series....
50 TABLOTINS MUSIQUÉS
Joëlle de La CasinièreJoëlle de La Casinière's 'Les tablotins' are graphic illuminated poems; small paintings-poems. In a video, each one of the tablotins – digitized and enlarged 15 times on the screen – appears as a fixed shot with a soundtrack for about three minutes....
ATOMIC BOMB LOADING PIT
Lukas MarxtThe video reveals an Atomic Bomb Loading Pit in Wendover, Utah (USA), which was used during WWII to practice the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We hear a voice over, reading parts of the unclassified 37 pages user manual "How to build an Atomic Bomb Loading Pit", which was released and distributed in June 1946....
THE OTHER
Peter DownsbroughA keen observer of the forces that shape society, Peter Downsbrough portrayed those forces elliptically in his work, particularly in the photographs and films he made in urban settings. THE OTHER is one of Downsbrough’s shortest films. It is also the last one. As concise and suggestive as a haiku, the work opens viewers’ imaginations to possibilities unexplored and worlds unknown...
