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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 96. CAMOUFLAGE
Steve ReinkeThe beauty of the world may be all around us, but sometimes it can be hard to spot....
LOOKING UP
Bernard Gigounon‘Looking up’ is, as Gigounon puts it himself, a trip through time and space between the astounding and reality. The short video starts with a sky at night, accompanied by the mesmerising sound of an army of crickets. We look up, as the image evolves very slowly it becomes clear to us that the thing we thought to have seen is not actually what it was, or is...
VOICE-OVER
Roy VillevoyeSet in the Asmat region in the Indonesian part of New Guinea, Voice-Over overlays the construction of a traditional wooden sculpture with a phone call about a sales deal gone wrong. The death of Roy Villevoye’s Papuan friend Omoma is the reason for the creation of the sculpture, a ritual that also functions as a memorial ceremony...
13
Patrick Bernatchez13 is perhaps the most literal portrait of the building, employing as it does a vertically descending tracking shot through each of the twelve floors...
PROOF OF LIFE
Herman AsselberghsThe interior of an open, empty space: the frontier between ’inside’ and ’out side’ is slight. The only sign of human presence is to be found as a voice-over: a male voice recalling horrifying TV-images, a popular disaster film, a long-term imprisonment. The title alludes to the diplomatic negotiating jargon used during the video recording of a live hostage...
WINTER PRAYERS
Jan Dietvorst - Roy VillevoyeIs every collector necessarily a murderer? Jean-Paul de Vries, the film’s protagonist, is quite the opposite of a killer. He may not exactly be the one who wakes the dead - but he does try to show that there are other ways to live and deal with life, rather than ‘protect oneself against death’...
TELEVISION MAN
Michel BonnemaisonThe actor Enrique Ariman, in a state of ecstasy at the foot of Mount Sinai, raises certain still burning issues, even if, these days, they are acquiring a quaint charm. He is filmed by oscillation, with a small shaking camera, and does not blink once in 40 minutes...
XXXIII BIENNALE INTERNAZIONALE D'ARTE VENEZIA (1966)
Jef CornelisIn 1966 the thirty-third edition of the Venice Biennial took place, with the participation of artists such as Henri-Etienne Martin, Lucio Fontana, Robert Jacobsen and Roy Lichtenstein—all of whom appear in this creative documentary that was originally intended for television...
1937
Nora Martirosyan"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...
