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Avant-garde citizens: Mpia’s story, 2007, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson © the artists
AVANT-GARDE CITIZENS
Libia Castro - Ólafur Ólafsson’Avant-garde Citizens’ steps into the lives and identities of refugees in the world today, using the Netherlands as a departure point. The project is a series of video-portraits of people who have become enmeshed in the viciously complicated and torturously slow Dutch immigration and asylum system...
DE KUNST VAN HET BOOMHAKKEN / L'ART DE COUPER UN ARBRE
Jan VrommanVromman explores the role of women in society by means of the strangest of all byways. Subject of his documentary is the Flemish monk-missionary-priest-writer-photographer André De Smet. Centrally in De Smet’s thinking is -perhaps surprisingly for a Trappist monk- woman. In ancient time there existed a matriarchal in which a sacral sexuality was central...
WHYMPER: DE SCHETSENDE BERGBEKLIMMER
Harald Thys - Jos De Gruyter1865: A London publisher commissions Whymper to make some sketches of a still virginal town in Switzerland: Matterhorn. Whymper is tempted by the challenging beauty of the mountain and he decides to conquer it in the company of some experienced climbers and with his sketchbook under his arm. Everything goes as planned, but when he descends the rope breaks and 4 of the company of 7 fall down...
INVITATION TO THE VOYAGE / L'INVITATION AU VOYAGE
Meggy RustamovaMeggy Rustamova’s film Invitation to the voyage / L’invitation au voyage (2014), which derives its title from a poem by Baudelaire, is a suggestive examination of the potential of photography to tell stories (or history) and to let fact and fiction move closer together until the fuzziness of the pixels creating each photo has also taken hold of the narrative...
OMBRE INDIGÈNE
Edith DekyndtA flag made of hair was stuck in the ground and filmed on top of rocks on the Diamant coast, in Martinique. There, precisely, on the night of the 8th of April 1830, a clandestine slave boat transporting a hundred African captives washed up on the rocks before being entirely destroyed....
FOR THE RECORD
Fleur Khani - Ailien ReynsThis audiovisual work offers a contemporary insight in the lives of people in a metropole and researches more specifically the different forms of proximity. Through the images as well as the voice-over, the film aims to reformulate the question of proximity in contemporary urban society...
AND TO
Peter DownsbroughWe don't know where we are. We're in a car, looking at other cars, roads, structures, tunnels – wasteland. Position? The Global Positioning System informs us, with its horde of satellites, orbiting Earth. Guiding us with its synthesised voice, transporting us, 'translating' us. Telling us what to do...
PIECES FOR TUMBLING WOODBLOCKS
Filip FrancisA series of different experiments at an artistic workshop, a tunnel in Antwerp and in a gallery, with simple oblong pieces of wood, placed one after the other in such a way that, when the first one is touched, a chain-reaction is set off with the pieces falling backwards....
HEIR TO THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL
Wendy MorrisA great number of my forebears fled or emigrated to South Africa due to their religious convictions. French and Flemish Huguenots in the 17th century, English Protestant missionaries and clergy in the 19th century. Though I am atheist-agnostic-apostate i must trace my South Africanism to the religious convictions of my ancestors. I like church spaces and architecture...
TWISTED REALISM
Maria Iorio - Raphaël CuomoTwisted Realism takes cases in italian cinema in the period of post-war reconstruction and “economic miracle” as starting point to investigate different “aesthetics of reality” and the genealogy of this epoch marked by a re-organisation of capitalism, increasing consumption, new economical and cultural influences, a large national migration, and the emergence of new technol...
