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ACHTERBERG CONVERSION MODULES
Steve ReinkeStaying in Utrecht for a residency at Impakt Foundation, the artist observes from his first floor apartment Dutch football fans as they go World Cup crazy. He puts himself to work and uses a Dutch-English dictionary to translate some poems written by Gerrit Achterberg...
FERMETURE DE L'USINE RENAULT À VILVOORDE
Jan BucquoyFebruary 1997: Louis Schweitzer, CEO of French car company Renault, makes the irrevocable decision to close the big Renault factory in Vilvoorde (Belgium) within three months. The Renault workmen immediately begin a strike and carry out a programme of action in Belgium and in France...
THE BREECHES (1)
Messieurs DelmotteA person – Messieurs Delmotte himself ? – stands with his back in front of the camera. He is wearing white, almost transparent underwear; the only part filmed is his mid section. Slowly something brown and sticky is filling the underpants. An early Dadaistic piece, definitely not suited for the faint of heart. Part one of two....
COÏTUS
An van. Dienderen"Documentary about a pregnant dancer, evoking themes of birth and death, on the edge of documentary practice." (Source: An van. Dienderen)...
A IS HOTTER THAN B
Edith DekyndtA is hotter than B is a video showing the dissolution of a drop of ink captured in an ice-cube which disintegrates between the artist’s fingers. While the rigorous title assumes the status of a mathematical formula, it contrasts with the majesty of the ample, harmonious movement of the colored liquid...
LE LIVRE EST AU BOUT DU BANC
Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle NystBeyond the documentary aspect, the script proposes a reflection on books, through a poetic fiction. From the desert of Nomala, Theresa Plane and Professor Codca make their way towards the star "Without a doubt". On the star they meet Nadin the Angel. A dialogue ensues during which multiple aspects of books are touched upon...
TOKYO-PICNIC
Pascal BaesThe setting is Tokyo-Sinjuku, towards the end of the month of May. Baes edits microscopic images of blossoming flora and fauna and urbane turbulence in a spastic stream of wriggling shapes and colours. The soundtrack of abrasive sounds and scouring textures complements the atmosphere of confusion and anxiety....
FUJI SAN
Bernard GigounonThe animation in this video was put together with images of Mount Fuji found on the internet. Mount Fuji is the largest symmetrical object on the planet; images taken from any side can be perfectly superposed. This video rules negates the contemplative aspect in these pictures, as the Fuji monument becomes mobile and pivots. ...
CONTAINER 09: OVER ROES
Jef CornelisA fragment from Aldoux Huxley‘s ’The Doors of Perception’ is the starting-point for a reflection on intoxication. Intoxication might be perceived as one of the universal longings of mankind. The Romantic tradition of Baudelaire talks of “artificial paradises”, but outside the Western society intoxication has a much more ambivalent function than escapism alone...
ONEINDIGE BEPERKING, ETCETERA, 40.700 X9…
Filip FrancisThe artist writes the equation space = time over and over again, on giant white canvases. He makes geometrical figures with them. He repeats this kind of gesture, by drawing the number nine infinite times....
