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SILVERLEAF
Adam LeechAdam Leech produces videos with a narrative touch. The protagonists of these stories are usually archetypical inhabitants of ‘the American suburbia’ we are familiar with from countless television series. Their preferred pastimes are shopping, parties and interior design - in short, everything that has to do with the aestheticization of the everyday...
VERSUS & VERSUS
Messieurs DelmotteA girl is lying in a sunny summer garden, face down in the grass. When Messieurs Delmotte appears in the picture, he sits down on her body. In the second part of the movie, the roles are reversed. Another absurd action from this infamous Belgian performer....
THE THOUSAND FACES OF GOD
Koen TheysDifferent images of gods of all possible religions morph one into another as to unite in an always transforming new religion....
THE DEATH OF JAMES LEE BYARS
Peter BrosensBased upon two performances / installations of James Lee Byars: ‘The Death of James Lee Byars’ and ‘The White Mass’. In ‘The Death of James Lee Byars’, the artist acts out his own death on 1 July 1994. Wearing a mask and dressed in gold, Byars lies in the ‘golden room’ of the Marie-Puck Broodthaers Art Gallery in Brussels...
PASS-ING]
Peter DownsbroughIn a long travelling the camera tracks the fences around a factory building. At the end the camera slowly swerves out to a frontal image of the fencing. Downsbrough draws our attention to an inconspicuous, everyday image, which all too often escapes our attention, reconstructing it within his own visual language...
TANIA, MODÈLE POUR PHOTOS DE CHARME
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...
PORTEMANTEAU
Messieurs DelmotteHow to hang one’s jacket without actually taking it off? Messieurs Delmotte exhibits a wide range of possibilities and techniques...
TABLEAUX DES INDES GALANTES
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La CasinièreJean-Philippe Rameau’s opéra-ballet ’Les Indes Galantes’ serves as the unifying theme for this film by Joëlle de La Casinière and Michel Bonnemaison while the Ciné Central, shot from across the street and explored in every detail of its façade, provides its recurring visual motif...
LICHT & BEWEGING, GRAND BAZAAR, REGEN, LOPEN, ROLTRAP…
Filip FrancisAt night, in the highways and city streets, road and car lights seem to live a life of their own. It is the enchantment of the movement and distortion of these lights that Francis records from his car. Neon lights of advertisements pop up on the screen. During the day it is the movement of cranes on a building site that captures Francis attention...
