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THIS DAY WON'T LAST
Mouaad el SalemA day that could also be a life. A young man who could also be an older woman. A nightmare that could also be a dream. In Tunisia, while it could also be somewhere else: on the border between the necessity and the fear to make a film, the necessity and the fear for the revolution, is This day won’t last a cooperation with a distance...
NOU VOIX
Maxime Jean-BaptisteNou voix is an autobiographical video departing from the participation of the artist's father, as a Guyanese figurant, in the movie Jean Galmot aventurier (1990), which deals with the history of French Guiana. By re-enacting a part of the film, Maxime and his father try to amplify other kinds of voices that have been unheard in the original French film....
YESTERDAY IN CITY PLANNING
Andrea Geyer’Yesterday in City Planning’ - part of Geyer’s series of ’One-Minute Videos’ - shows the hands of a designer or architect in action – scale ruler and propelling pencil at the ready...
HOTEL RED SHOES
Lisa Spilliaert - Clara Spilliaert“A pretty little girl with red shoes on has gone overseasBy her side a foreign man from overseas The pretty little girl has boarded the ship from Yokohama Pier By her side a foreign man from overseas The pretty little girl’s eyes surely have turned blue by now Living somewhere in the land of the foreign man I always think of the pretty little girl whenever I see red shoes I always thin...
PIEDS À L'ENVERS
Michel FrançoisIn Pieds à l'Envers, the camera is turned upside down and rotates around and around the artist's feet. The sound of the footsteps of the artist gives a sort of understanding of his action, but the focus is on his feet while the background keeps on moving in a continuous circle. Together with the reverse point of view, the video brings to lose the viewer's balance in a spiral shaking image....
PICASSO IN PARIJS (HEROPENING GRAND PALAIS)
Jef CornelisOriginal broadcast date: 22/11/1966 Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Ludo Bekkers introducing the report on three exhibitions by Picasso opening at the Grand Palais, Petit Palais and Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. 01’20" Photographs of Pablo Picasso working in his villa at Mougins. 01’50" Museum staff unwrapping sculptures...
DAGBOEK VAN EEN KRANKZINNIGE
Jef Cornelis“Dagboek van een krankzinnige” (Diary of a Madman) is a television adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s eponymous short story. This classic story of modern Russian literature consists of diary entries from Aksenty Ivanovich Popryshyn, a low-ranking civil servant who lived under the repressive government of Tsar Nicholas I...
TASTE THE WORLD
Wendy Morris‘Taste the World’ explores tourist notions of the ‘Third World’ as a playground for Europe. The title is derived from a promotional brochure in which travellers are encouraged to “taste the world”. The subtext makes clear that this ‘world’ is mainly there for the Eurostractrates with their unbridled leisure time and financial means...
SLOW OBJECT 04
Edith Dekyndt'Slow Object 04' is close-up video and it shows a delicate manipulation of an ordinary round rubber band bobbing up and down in slow motion. As if the movement of the disc and the hand takes place in an aquarium, the object appears to be suspended as escaping Earth’s gravity: it slightly deforms and it rarely returns to the initial point...
DANIEL BUREN
Jef CornelisGeorges Adé (1936-1992) interviews the French artist Daniel Buren (°1938) at the occasion of his solo exhibition – simply entitled Buren (11 May - 5 June, 1971) – in front of the Wide White Space Gallery in Antwerp. As in his previous show with the same title (17 January - 6 February, 1969), Buren applied his renowned motif, namely the alternation of white and coloured 8...
