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BORDER

Hans Op de Beeck
’Border’ is projected life-size and opens with the image of a number of people sitting down in an oppressively small, square space. We can hear them whispering, sighing, coughing. Then a life-size x-ray image slowly appears over the total surrounding of this environment, the image of a truck crammed with goods...

HÉROS

Bernard Gigounon
Little experiences of everyday, an acceleration of the yield of a copy machine, a tribute to Jean Renoir, a videogame, 24 image-seconds piled on top of each other and the results of an encounter of the children of the Marollen with the medium video....

ATTENTION PUBLIC

Cooper Battersby - Emily Vey Duke
A 10 minute experimental narrative telling the story of Karen Annasdaughter, a young woman raised by a group of radicals in the woods of Nova Scotia. With this project Vey Duke and Battersby aim to clear a psycho-spiritual space for the viewer which was not cleared before. "We want this space to contain empathy (identification) and joy...

POUR LA MÈRE ET LA FILLE

Olivier Dekegel
An impressionist elegy about spring, water, light and motherly love, shot from the shoulder on Super 8. Connecting colourful snapshots and intimate scenes the film constitutes a homage to the candour, the cordiality and poetical nature of amateur films, home movies and domestic holiday shoots, which have developed over a couple of decades into conventionalised visual representations of the world...

IDÉALE AUDIENCE : UN PAYSAGE TÉLÉVISUEL EN FRANCE

Joëlle de La Casinière
Idéale audience is a television ‘commedia dell’Arte’, written in TV. The composition of the work presents variations on three themes: the self-promotion of TV channels, the ideal audience filmed in a listening attitude, and ecstatic female announcers. All these stanzas are interspersed with McLuhanesque questions about the television medium, posed by cartoon characters...

AVV-VVK, EEN SCENARIO / AVV-VVK, UN SCENARIO

Jan Vromman
How do you convince the government that they should grant your project on the theme “Alles voor Vlaanderen/Vlaanderen voor Christus” (“Everything for Flanders/Flanders for Christ”)? The decision-makers are not fundamentally opposed to it, but they want to see something to motivate their choice...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 95. GHOSTS

Steve Reinke
Periodically, ghosts inhabit the bodies of the living....

TURKEY

Messieurs Delmotte
In this video Messieurs Delmotte juggles about with a turkey. He appears and disappears; his face is hidden behind the beast, creating an impression that the turkey is taking poses in before the camera. Delmotte, a self-declared poser, sneers at the institutionalised art world with his mischievous and surprising actions, trivial in content and simple in form...

THE MIME AND THE APE

Erik Bünger
In the film Silent Movie (1976) a film director places a phone call to Marcel Marceau to ask him to star in a silent film. The world famous mime picks up the phone and shouts “No!”. Thirty-five years later the exact same stunt is repeated by Cesar, the chimpanzee protagonist in Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)...

THE CONTENT OF THE STATE

Grace Schwindt
A 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...