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AFTERNOON (MARCH 22, 1999)
Steve ReinkeThe artist spends the afternoon in his tiny apartment listening to music he dislikes and ruminating on what it means to be an artist. All the edits are in-camera and the monologues and songs are largely improvised....
OTOLITH II
The Otolith GroupAs in ’Otolith I’, the narrator in ’Otolith II’ is related to Anjalika Sagar, one of the founders of the Otolith Group. Here, she is looking back from a distant future, while a pressure "high enough to change coal into diamond" functions as a metaphor for the way in which cities will in the future be confronted with continuous population growth...
Rétroviseurs, Laurent Van Lancker, 2004 © the artist & producer
RÉTROVISEURS
Laurent Van LanckerDakar – Kolda, Senegal. During a car trip from the city to the country a driver and his passengers discuss politics, religion, colonialism and African cinema. The landscape changes while opinions are exchanged, rephrased, fine-tuned. Visual anthropologist Van Lancker makes documentaries which allow him to meet people he can share a little part of his life with...
THE BASTARDSTOWN BLOGGER
Orla BarryBastardstown, located in ‘sunny’ southeast Ireland, County Wexford (N 52° 11’ 15’’ W 6° 32 36”) is small town, or village, or rather townland. Although it actually exists, it’s also a fictive notion, a concept that figures in the work of Orla Barry, here as well as in previous work (Stoney Scrabble at Bastardstown, 2000-2006 and Foundlings, 2000)...
AGAIN ON THE SEAS
Joëlle de La CasinièreWhile they were in Peru in 1973-74 to shoot movies, artists and poets Joëlle de La Casinière and Michel Bonnemaison decided to invite photographer and film director Carlos Ferrand on a trip across the Andes and through the coastal desert along the Pacific Ocean with a Leica camera and a precise mission: constantly photographing out the window of the riding Land-Rover...
MUSÉE DE L'HOMME
Jacques LennepVideo, apart from photography and holography, was but one of the media Lennep made use of during the 1970s, as he was adding on to his ‘museum of men’. His human models were derived from all layers of the populations, but they shared a common obsession for collecting things or, at the very, least an unusual passion...
THE CONTENT OF THE STATE
Grace SchwindtA two screen installation video piece. Screen 1: The Content of the State is Family, but also Law, Health, Religion, Jew, German, Nation, Race, People, Human Kind, Ancestor, Men, We, You (plural), You (singular). A convergence to and distancing from a document (“Explanatory Leaflet for Those Getting Married”, published in Germany in approx...
HIGH TIDE
Lukas MarxtHigh Tide hypnotically fixes its gaze on a landscape that’s either prehuman or postapocalyptic, but definitely a timeless arrangement in shades of gray — Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness. Stiff, dry and dully gleaming like damp tar, they tear a hole between the dark, gloomy sea and the grayish sky...
FLAUBERT DREAMS OF TRAVEL BUT THE ILLNESS OF HIS MOTHER PREVENTS IT
Ken Kobland‘Flaubert Dreams of Travel…’ focuses on images of death and transcendence as suggested by the writings of Gustave Flaubert. The film was made in conjunction with the Wooster Group’s stage production ‘Frank Dell’s The Temptation of St...
