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CENTRAL ALBERTA
Emmanuel Van der AuweraBestgore.com (BG) was created by Slovak-Canadian Mark Marek in 2008. The website hosts explicit photographic and video material of events including murders, suicides, torture, mutilation and horrific accidents. With an estimated 40 million yearly visits, BG is currently the biggest shock site in the world. Through authored opinion and user comments, the website exalts extreme ideas...
QUE SERÁ SERÁ: ENVOLEZ-VOUS
Jacques Lederlin - Joëlle de La CasinièreThe reveries of a solitary driver on the highway are portrayed in ’Envolez-vous’. Images of collages suggest the things he is dreaming about. A man and a woman appear in the center of the screen, to sing the chorus of the song....
THE GIRL
Hans Op de BeeckThe Girl is a slow, suggestive, perception-oriented animated film in which the viewer is transported to the strange world of a silent, 14-year-old girl. The dreamy landscape images show a dark forest, a vast landfill, a gas station, a highway landscape, a meadow, a factory site and a mysterious lake. Amidst all this stands an old caravan...
THE NEW FREEDOM FOUNDERS
Emily Vey Duke - Cooper BattersbyIn this three channel video installation, Duke and Battersby explore basic philosophical issues such as time, language, revolution, and the paradigms of insanity. Each of the three channels runs a different short narrative. The narratives deploy tropes from genres as diverse as science fiction, French New Wave Cinema, Hollywood Film and Television, and 70’s conceptual video...
RED TAPE
Cel CrabeelsThe tape shows an extract of the video installation ’Red Tape’ this installation explores the temporal dimension in moving images by looping two basic movements of the camera, the transformation of a spatial barrier to the temporal one. The installation strove to test the meaning of the conversation from first to the second one....
THE MELANCHOLIC
Hubert MarécailleDespite his existential difficulties, not knowing what to say to his colleagues during the companyʼs evenings out and spending his leisure time doing crosswords, an office worker tries to convince himself of the success of his life : to have a wife, a house and a job, his dream finally realized, just annoyed by the sleeping pills his doctor prescribes for him to sleep at night and rest – his...
IT WILL BE ALL RIGHT IF YOU COME AGAIN, ONLY NEXT TIME DON’T BRING ANY GEAR, EXCEPT A TEA KETTLE…
Johan GrimonprezThe multi-channel installation ‘It will be all right if you come again, only next time don’t bring any gear, except a tea kettle…’ (1994-2004) explores the creation of new mythologies in the wake of Western imperialism...
CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Ken Kobland1. Das KunstKabinett or the Cabinet of Curiosities is a microcosm or theater of the world…a memory theater which provides solace and a retreat for contemplation. 2. The Cabinet of Curiosities is in our heads.3...
IJSBREKER 09: WOENSDAGAVONDKOORTS: LET'S DANCE
Jef Cornelis - Jackie Claeys - Mark De Geest - Karel SchoetensAn edition of ’Ijsbreker’ on rolling dancing movements, taking a look at the widest range of forms, including cha cha cha, quickstep, tap dancing and the Chinese art of movement TaiChi Tao...
CAT FOOD WOMAN
Alison MurrayA parody on the cat food commercial in which the food is always dished up lovingly by a nice lady looking as if she just walked out a beauty palour. Murray’s perceives things differently…...
