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BELONG
Shelly SilverBehind her desk, probably in her university office, a woman talks about belonging and argues that nobody really belongs to something nowadays. While she speaks, Silver edited old photographs of people from disparate origins as well as different cities and landscapes. The final static shot shows the Seine banks, the flag of France and a woman playing with her dog....
BROKENDOWN DREAM
Messieurs DelmotteThe work of Messieurs Delmotte is situated somewhere between reality and the improbable, somewhere between playfulness and dilettantism. Delmotte, who is one person, despite his adopted plural title, is immediately distinguished (distinguishes himself) by his outward appearance. He could be regarded as a strange, updated version of a 19th-century dandy or even as a 21st-century Buster Keaton...
IN WAKING HOURS
Sarah VanagtWith the publication of the Ophthalmographia in 1632, the Amsterdam physician Vopiscus Fortunatus Plempius sheds new light on the age-old question of how seeing works. His answer is an invitation to experiment: Enter with me into a darkened room and prepare the eye of a freshly slaughtered cow. He emphasizes that anyone may carry out this experiment, at home, "demanding little effort and expense...
MEDIASTUDIEN (NACH HEINRICH HOFFMANN)
Koen TheysIn 1927 (years before he came to power in Germany), Adolf Hitler posed in a studio for his private photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. The pictures they made were used to study the dramatic effects of certain gestures, and how to use them during Hitler’s public apparitions. Hitler was one of the first (if not the first) politician(s) who introduced the idea of media-training...
THE ASCENT OF MAN. PART I: SILENT RUNNING
Jayce Salloum’Silent Running’ opens on a scene of running water. Nature, therefore, comes first , accompanied by old choral music. This is what preceeds the ascent of Man. Then, from running water we pass on to landscape. River banks, trees go by. Suddenly an abrupt stop, the image freezes : enough nature. Feet and legs of passers-by stream along the sidewalk like the water following a flow...
DE LOIN PARALLELE
Bernard GigounonThis work shows three enigmatic individuals throwing rocks into a river. They can be seen as children, as protesters, as thugs, or as dancers. The river absorbs the shocks effortlessly, each collision vanishing through a thousand wrinkles as soon as the act has run its course, a powerful but fleeting spectacle....
A]S
Peter DownsbroughAs basic ingredients: five words and a typographical phenomenon or word-thing ‘(A]S itself)’; two black and white steady cam images, and in between them one in colour, all featuring the same fixed camera image shot somewhere along the railway, from the same point of view — but with a different train passing; or so it seems...
VAN ABBEMUSEUM
Jef CornelisFor the art programme on television Kunst-Zaken, Cornelis made a television report about the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (The Netherlands)...
