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CAPE GROUND

Lukas Marxt
Cape Ground appears in the Anthropocene. Man has become one of key factors influencing biological, geological and atmospheric processes on Earth. The Bosporus as connecting piece of inner Eurasian border....

LIMBO. THE EARTH IS HARD

Ira A. Goryainova
In the aftermath of global irreversible climate changes something went wrong in nature’s circle of life and death – human bodies ceased to decompose. In a field hospital amidst a forest, nurses take care of patients whose death is delayed....
Lobbyists, Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson, 2009 © the artists & producers Lobbyists, Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson, 2009 © the artists & producers

LOBBYISTS

Libia Castro - Ólafur Ólafsson
In their video work Lobbyists, Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson portray lobbyists and counter lobbyists at work, exploring the maelstrom surrounding their activity in Brussels and Strasbourg...

ET[-

Peter Downsbrough
ET[- opens with a silent black-and-white close-up of a vertical rod shuttling back and forth across a mechanical loom. The short sequence could be mistaken for footage from an early 20th-century propaganda film. Cut sharply to the next scene, also in black and white and taken from a fixed position but unmistakably contemporary...

JUMPY RABBIT

Messieurs Delmotte
A white rabbit in a grass field is forced to jump by means of two elastic strings attached to its body. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...

SLOW OBJECT 05

Edith Dekyndt
An object slowly goes up and down against a neutral background. Is it an air bubble in a transparent liquid? Or a balloon floating in the greyish-white sky? Edith Dekyndt does not disclose what the filmed object actually is. Like all other videos by Dekyndt, this short work causes us to become fascinated by the small, the unspeakable, the almost intangible...
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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 47. DREAM WORK

Steve Reinke
We have been encouraged to analyse our sexless dreams as being latently sexual, full of repressed writhing bodies and blood-gorged organs. This project, this analysis is referred to as dream work. It assumes latent though is transformed by the processes of condensation and displacement into the manifest content of the dream...

THE ROAD BACK

Maurits Wouters
The Road Back is a documentary journey to a time and place that have long been considered lost. The main character tries to find a lost village near a former international railway line where his recently deceased mother spent her youth. The past merges with the present as the filmmaker mixes archival films and close-ups of nature with old photographs...
Thirty one nights, my Palestinian encounters , Laurent Van Lancker, 2003 © the artist & producer Thirty one nights, my Palestinian encounters , Laurent Van Lancker, 2003 © the artist & producer

THIRTY ONE NIGHTS, MY PALESTINIAN ENCOUNTERS

Laurent Van Lancker
Thirty-one encounters, thirty-one nights: a personal diary that maps the discovery of a different Palestine - intimate, self-reflexive and full of hidden poetry. A personal diary that maps the discovery of a different Palestine – intimate, self-reflexive and full of hidden poetry...

TWEEDE INTERNATIONAAL SALON DER AVANT-GARDE GALERIJEN LAUSANNE

Jef Cornelis
On his way back from Venice, Jef Cornelis stopped in Lausanne to film the secon International Salon of Pilot Galleries organized at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts on the initiative of its director and curator René Berger. The idea for it had occurred to him three years earlier: "I had this totally naive idea: how to get to know contemporary art on an ongoing basis.....