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OPEN ]ING
Peter DownsbroughThe camera explores a port area and progresses along the sand or gravel mounds. Between two static shots on a double drawbridge downtown and traveling shots, Downsbrough shoots in black&white and dissects this architectonic space: a film about the juxtaposition, separation and collection of elements. ...
POSSIBILITÉS POUR UN ÉCRAN DE TÉLÉVISION / RÉFLEXION-ÉMISSION
Jacques Louis NystThis film, composed of three parts (1 - 'Réflexion / emission’; 2 - 'Une part de silence pour une part de réfléxion / animation’, 3 - 'Concentration’), was made the year of the first video exhibition in Belgium, held at the Gallery Yellow Now in Liège...
GENT, 10 JUNI 1989, VOOR GERALDINE NEREA
Jan VrommanIn this video Vromman shows us virtuoso how a “plan séquence” is capable of exploring a given spatial arrangement notably an abandoned church in Ghent. It is as though the camera possesses a will of its own, or, more appropriately, as it became itself a dancer within the given space...
LE RITUEL DES 16 FACES
Danièle Nyst - Jacques Louis NystIt is the year 25 in the Tsyn era. The Earth is threatened by a liquid invader and a resistance committee has sought shelter in a large basement. Terril Songe is one of its guards. Her day always begins with the 16 Faces Ritual. With her mutant friend, the strange bird of Nedea, she goes around the shelter wishing all the resistance fighters a good day...
TREETS APPEARANCES
Messieurs DelmotteIn the park, Messieurs Delmotte plays hide-and-seek with a series of big, old trees. Will he ever come back in front of the camera? Who or what is he hiding from? This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 1...
WINDY APPEARANCE
Messieurs DelmotteIn front of his camera, Messieurs Delmotte poses in a park. With precision and highly concentrated, he licks cigarette rolling papers that he sticks onto his face. The wind plays an important role in this remarkable performance. This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 2...
THIEVERY AND SONGS
Gernot WielandIn Thievery and Songs Gernot Wieland has made an exceptionally beautiful, tragicomic and humerous work, framed by the story of a dancer, Hilde Holger, who had to flee from Austria into exile in Bombay in 1938 because she was jewish. This collage of moving images is composed of Super 8 film, video, watercolours, drawings, Claymation and his father´s photos...
WALKER, LA VALSIÈRE
Thomas Bernardet - Florent MulotWalker 3 is a survey of the Domaine de Valsière, in the suburbs of Montpellier. This unbuilt "natural" space, encircled by dwellings, was ravaged by a fire during the 2003 heat wave. In this lunar space that evokes a deserted battlefield and a western movie, the two artists scrutinize the terrain, searching for traces of a former state, evidence of a past life...
