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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 84. STENTOR

Steve Reinke
We are all so physically repulsive, special psychic forces are necessary for us to couple....

PERFORMANCE METRO MEIR

Ria Pacquée
As the title indicates, this video is a recording of a performance that Pacquée did together with Danny Devos in 1979. Standing on the lowest metro platform, Pacquée is on a small wooden square. With white duck tape she has made a bigger square around it, of which she keeps on enlarging the edges with new pieces of tape...

NATURE SEE YOU

Erik Bünger
In November 2015, at the eve of the UN climate change conference in Paris, a video was uploaded on the internet, in which Koko, a gorilla trained in the use of American Sign Language, addresses world leaders directly. She chastises humanity and calls for immediate action to save herself and the nature she is part of...

TOOLS FOR THE REVOLUTION

Andrea Geyer
A text calling for action appears over the animation of an opened, receptive hand. However, the music - Eric Satie’s well-known ’Gymnopedie No. 1’ – gets stuck, begins over and over again and so never evolves. "(.....

STAGING SILENCE (2)

Hans Op de Beeck
Hans Op de Beeck's film Staging Silence (2) is based around abstract, archetypal settings that lingered in the memory of the artist as the common denominator of the many similar public places he has experienced. The video images themselves are both ridiculous and serious, just like the eclectic mix of pictures in our minds...

DRIE MINUTEN, RINGAUTOBAAN, TREKKEN, ROLTRAP, STOP STAP STOP STAP...

Filip Francis
Three minutes of a close-up on a clock. Suddenly, and unexpectedly, a close-up on the white lines of a highway appears. Speed and minimalism melt together. The next image is that of a labourer, lugging a pile of cables. The movement of an escalator in a subway station follows and finally the flickering of a traffic light for pedestrians changes from red to green and back again...

COMME D'HABITUDE. UNE PIÈCE À ENGAGER

Eran Schaerf - Eva Meyer
‘As Habitual’ is a set piece, a documentary fiction, about how to adapt oneself to unknown regions without surrendering to them. This movie is situated in Mombassa and Zanzibar, where you can find a material called Khanga that hovers between language and architecture, and in fact turns into a habit...

AKAROVA/BAUGNIET, L'ENTRE-DEUX-GUERRES

Ana Torfs - Jurgen Persijn
Based on eye-witness accounts and archival documents, this is a portrait of two important representatives of the Belgian avant-garde of the 1920s: Akarova, a dancer, and Marcel-Louis Baugniet, a painter and furniture designer. Using a black background and frontal light, the filming does not “correct” the reality of aging faces, but gives full play to memory...

ATOMIC BOMB LOADING PIT

Lukas Marxt
The video reveals an Atomic Bomb Loading Pit in Wendover, Utah (USA), which was used during WWII to practice the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We hear a voice over, reading parts of the unclassified 37 pages user manual "How to build an Atomic Bomb Loading Pit", which was released and distributed in June 1946....

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...