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EVENTUAL HORIZON
Elise GuillaumeFilmed in the Arctic, Eventual Horizon threads together the artist’s experience of insomnia, grief, and hope. In this viscerally engaging film, a parallel is made between the experience of mourning a loved one and ecological degradation. Perceiving grief as an active element of hope, Eventual Horizon focuses on the transformative and healing power of these states...
WITHOUT APPEARANCES (VOL. 1)
Messieurs Delmotte’Without Appearances’ consists of a series of short portraits of people as they are stoically carrying out or undergoing a senseless act; a man is throwing vegetables into a small river, a woman is subjected to cracking firework. The camera hardly moves, no one speaks and the meaning of the absurd actions remains unclear...
LEEDSTAPE
Cel CrabeelsThe people that move through Leeds seem to have a purpose, they are going somewhere. The artist chose not to. He carried out interventions at various times and places in the public space of the city. They became slightly disturbing when obstructing the natural flow of people, things and situations...
BIRD IN ITALIAN IS UCCELLO
Gernot WielandGernot Wieland's new film, Bird in Italian is Uccello (2021), furthers his interest in psychological states and the constitution of belonging in different social contexts. Drawing upon Daphne du Maurier’s short story The Birds, and its subsequent cinematic adaptation, Bird in Italian is Uccello (re)enacts a theatrical production of the horror-thriller...
KAIROS - COMPENDIUM ON THE FUTURE OF TIME
Alexis DestoopAn exhibition version of the film "KAIROS". It was first presented during the 2012 Biennale of Sydney"All Our Relations". Stripping away character and plot from the longer cinema version, it focuses on the speculative universe developed for the film and highlights the background narrative as laid out by different voice-overs...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 19. INTRODUCTION TO THE LOGO
Steve ReinkeI am a person, a company, and an artist. (Otherwise I’d pay a lot more taxes.) As an artist, texts are produced under the authority of my name. It seemed appropriate to develop a logo....
UNIVERSAL STORY
Jung-Kyun ShinThis work starts with the artist visiting the military unit in which he served. It features his recollection of military service, a trip to the places in the narrative, and drawings of his memories. The artist juxtaposes his memories of military service with private memories, asking if special memories are general for all Korean men, related to a rite of passage....
THE ROOT PROBLEM OF THE WORLD
Steve ReinkeThis is adapted from a two-channel video installation of the same name I presented at Birch Libralato in conjunction with the Images Festival in Toronto in 2011. The footage is from reel-to-reel video documentation of the lecture Joseph Beuys gave at NSCAD in 1976 on the occassion of his honorary degree...
10DE BIËNNALE VAN MIDDELHEIM ANTWERPEN [1969]
Jef CornelisA short and playful portrayal of life and customs, disguised as a filmed exhibition, during the 10th Biennial for sculpture in Middelheim. The gardens and sculptures of the open air museum make out the scenery for a bucolical and frivolous atmospheric and periodical portrayal, with Flemish poet and filmmaker Patrick Conrad in a leading role: “trees like statues, statues like bombs”...
IJSBREKER 08: CARTE BLANCHE AAN FRANZ MARIJNEN
Freddy Coppens - Jef Cornelis - Mark De Geest - Jackie ClaeysThis episode of ’Ijsbreker’ gives carte blanche to theatre and opera director Franz Marijnen. His self-willed artistic quest led him – a student of the Polish theatrical innovator Jerzy Grotowski – among others, to the US and the Netherlands, where he became part of the international theatre avant-garde...
