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BEELDENDE KUNST IN BELGIË, 1986
Jef Cornelis - Freddy CoppensOriginally broadcast on March 16th 1986, the programme Beeldende kunst in België, 1986 (Visual Art in Belgium, 1986) is a recording of a panel discussion that took place in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp...
DE STOEL LINKS VAN MIJ / LA CHAISE À MA GAUCHE
Jan VrommanA collection of twelve films that Vromman made in between 1982 and 2000, a part of 'De stoel waarop ik zit / La chaise sur laquelle je suis assis / The Chair I Sit Upon': - 01. Acte pur & brut- 02. Vierkant / 02. Carré / 02. Quadrangle- 03. De zege van de slang / 03. Le triomphe du serpent / 03. The triumph of the serpent- 04...
HÉROS
Bernard GigounonLittle 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....
LANDSCHAP VAN KERKEN
Jef CornelisBased on the 1987 book with the same title by Geert Bekaert, which explores the enigma of the Belgian historical church buildings...
LANDING
Cel Crabeels‘Landing’ (2006) consists of video and sound recordings Crabeels made during a stay in Iceland. The desolate volcanic landscapes and geysers take on abstract and aesthetic qualities while, at the same time, appearing unearthly, like some sort of unformed lunar craters...
THE WORLDWIDE WEB OF SORROWS
Koen TheysThe video contains a few hundred excerpts of clips found on YouTube, showing women trying to grab the attention of the viewer by crying in front of their webcam, sitting alone in their apartment. Some of them are silently sobbing, while others are loudly crying out their despair...
DANS + CAMERA
Stefaan DecostereThis documentary investigation is constructed around four themes: what is dance and camera ? Which of them should move ? Is there a difference between dance on film, on video, on tv and on stage ? How do you choreograph for the camera ? Interviews with choreographers Merce Cunningham, Karole Armitage, Birgit Cullberg, Hans Van Manen, Jean-Claude Gallotta and Meredith Monk; film/video makers Charle...
... AND
Peter DownsbroughThis film essentially consists of one continuous shot taken from the train window during its stop in the station of Metz, France. By way of prelude, … AND opens with a fixed camera shot, a straight, razor-sharp positioning - an image of cars driving in the city. Then, we dive into the film by way of a traveling shot from the window of the train...
PAUL VAN BOSSTRAETEN, CULTIVATEUR D’ORCHIDÉES
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...
JAMES LEE BYARS, ANTWERPEN 18 APRIL – 7 MEI 1969
Jef CornelisDocumentary on James Lee Byars’s exhibition at the Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp (18.04.1969 / 07.05.1969). James Lee Byars, his whole body covered by a robe, talks to Walter Van Dijck about the meaning of art, the new meaning of clothes, the beauty of ’Natural Landscapes In An Urban Situation’, the role of museums and his idea that a show is a translation of his ideas...
