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WITH OR WITHOUT CLOTHES [PART OF FACTS AND GESTURES VOL. 2]

Messieurs Delmotte
Something strange is happening behind the bushes on a little square. One by one, several pieces of clothing are ejected from the bushes. But when Messieurs Delmotte leaves the bush, he is still wearing all of his clothes. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...

BOUWEN IN BELGIË

Jef Cornelis
A documentary that attempts to analyse the process of building as it is drawn in the minds and mentality of the people who occupy the house. It is a cinematic expression that wants to present examples of the ways in which the occupants, oriented on the pragmatic, create their own environment in spite of the official regulations...

STAGING SILENCE (3)

Hans Op de Beeck
Staging Silence (3) is the third and final installment in a series of autonomous art films, all realised according to the same principles. In the three films, two pairs of anonymous hands construct and deconstruct fictional interiors and landscapes on a mini film set of just three square meters in size...

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II

Michel Bonnemaison - Jacques Lederlin - Joëlle de La Casinière
A number of structural modules (design and music) and a rule set are introduced to twenty-odd video artists; with these elements the artists were supposed to produce a video about an application of the video medium (surveillance, simulation, etc.)...
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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 15. WALKING THE DOG

Steve Reinke
Sometimes I think I am like Frank Sinatra. Then I try to think of specific examples of similarity, actual points where our beings might overlap, and of course can think of none....

FOR NOW

Herman Asselberghs
In times of great turmoil, time comes to a standstill. The central two movements in For Now are horizontal panoramas shots and firm, vertical edits. They show shifts of place without the journey. Nature, the wind, movement that occurs all on its own: this would seem to be the film’s real subject matter. The film unfolds in waves...
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HOSTAGE: THE BACHAR TAPES (ENGLISH VERSION)

The Atlas Group - Walid Raad
"Hostage: The Bachar Tapes (English version) is a multi-part videotape about ’The Western Hostage Crisis’. The crisis refers to the abduction and detention in Lebanon in the 1980’s and early 1990’s of western men like Terry Anderson and Terry Waite by ’Islamic militants’...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 56. JIN'S DREAM

Steve Reinke
I dreamt that I went to art school and when I woke up - I mean, when I graduated - I got this job designing pornographic playing cards....
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HET GEEL VAN GENT

Jos De Gruyter - Harald Thys
In this video Jos De Gruyter and Harald Thys put themselves in the shoes of the two main characters. Similarly to their previous work Man is characterised as a walk-on in the puppet show of life, a cogwheel in the diabolical machine of destiny. Man is unfathomable and soulless, merely an object in a world of inanimate things...