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HOMMAGE À MICHEL BONNEMAISON

Joëlle de La Casinière
On November 6th 2006, his birthday, and 7 months after his death, a gathering of his friends paid tribute to Michel Bonnemaison at the SCAM (Société Civile des Auteurs Multimédia) in Paris...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 03. WATERMELON BOX

Steve Reinke
In 1953, J.C.R. Licklider, a computer scientist at Harvard, created the world’s first speech-understanding machine....

TOOLS FOR THE REVOLUTION

Andrea Geyer
A text calling for action appears over the animation of an opened, receptive hand. However, the music - Eric Satie’s well-known ’Gymnopedie No. 1’ – gets stuck, begins over and over again and so never evolves. "(.....

THE TREE

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte is attached to a tree with a string. He starts to move, jumping up and down until the string breaks. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

CASCADE

Bernard Gigounon
An image of 25 seconds from a river is printed, piled on top of each other and accelerated filmed again. The magic of cinema does the rest....

TALAEEN A JUNUUB / UP TO THE SOUTH

Jayce Salloum - Walid Raad
This documentary examines consequences of and forms of resistance to the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon as well as how such issues are (mis)represented in the West. The film is a close examination of ideas and figures that have become tied to the region: terrorism, colonialism, occupation, resistance, collaboration and experts/leaders...

PIEDS À L'ENVERS

Michel François
In Pieds à l'Envers, the camera is turned upside down and rotates around and around the artist's feet. The sound of the footsteps of the artist gives a sort of understanding of his action, but the focus is on his feet while the background keeps on moving in a continuous circle. Together with the reverse point of view, the video brings to lose the viewer's balance in a spiral shaking image....

ALPHA-ZULU

Edith Dekyndt
For this video Edith Dekyndt brought together images of all the flags she could find of nations worldwide, including the states the United Nations do not recognise, like Tibet, the states of the former USSR and the nomadic peoples. The flags are shown in alphabetical order at a constant pace of four images per second. A trip through the world, in the space of bary half a minute...

untitled part 4: terra incognita, Jayce Salloum, 2005 © the artist & producer

UNTITLED PART 4: TERRA INCOGNITA

Jayce Salloum
terra incognita focuses on fragments of histories, of pre-European contact, contact, and settlement of the Kelowna (south-central B.C.) area though the accounts of several N’Syilx’cen (Okanagan Nation) speakers...

THE NAMES HAVE CHANGED, INCLUDING MY OWN, AND TRUTHS HAVE BEEN ALTERED

Onyeka Igwe
This is a story of the artist’s grandfather, the story of the ‘land’ and the story of an encounter with Nigeria—retold at a single point in time, in a single place. The artist is trying to tell a truth in as many ways as possible...