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TOPIC II
Pascal BaesThe French film theorist André Bazin used to consider film as a spell of time. He spoke triumphantly of a victory on the irreversibility and the transitoriness of life. Baes’ ‘Topic I & II’ (the painterly quality of its dusky images is for a good reason reminiscent of Francis Bacon’s strokes) seem to question these transcendent views on cinematography...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 59. RE-ENACTMENT OF A PERFORMANCE
Steve ReinkeThis video is a re-enactment of Joseph Beuys’ important performance “How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare"....
FROM AFAR
Gilles Vandaele - Martijn De MeuleneireObservations of landscapes and architectures surrounding the six deportation centers of Belgium combined with testimonies of imprisoned people raises questions about the limited perception that the Belgian government allows one to have of its violent border and immigration policies....
THE CORRIDOR
Sarah VanagtFor 5 days Sarah Vanagt and cinematographer Annemarie Lean-Vercoe followed a donkey during its weekly visits to old people in nursing homes in South-England. From home to home, from room to room. Each time the donkey was welcomed warmly, with greetings, songs, strokes, childhood stories, poems, and laughter...
GENTLEMEN TROUBLES
Messieurs DelmotteThis video was realized for the performance 'Problem Child' in 2013. Messieurs Delmotte worked together with Mark Bombastik as a performer and Jessica Broscheit for the realisation, which resulted in a series of performances that were acted out in public space in and around Hamburg, Germany...
CAPSULAR
Herman AsselberghsCiudad Autonoma de Ceuta is a Spanish enclave on the coast of Morocco. Formerly administered by the Spanish province of Cadiz, it is now an autonomous community with a parliament and a president of its own. Ceuta, along with Spain, is now part of the European Union...
BED
Johan Grimonprez‘Bed’ is an interactive installation, consisting of a continuous projection of an empty bedroom projected on the wall of a house or a building. The scale is almost 1:1 with respect to real life size, creating the illusion as if one is actually looking through a window in the wall of a house...
LIED VAN MIJN LAND - DEEL 2: DIE WALKÜRE
Frank Theys - Koen TheysThis is the second part of the diptych ’Lied van mijn Land’ (’Song of my Soil’), based on Richard Wagner’s operas ’Der Ring der Nibelungen’ and ’Parcifal’. At Hunding’s...
RUE FRANCIS
François VogelFrom the balcony of an apartment at the Parisian rue Francis a camera embodies the fixed centre of a visual journey: an immobile eye which, due to variable focus, is mobile at the same time. The result is a whirlwind of perspectives, edited in a way that is not apparently subject to rhyme or reason...
