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DIVE INTO MANKIND
Ria PacquéeFrom East to West Ria Pacquée observes and films people in and on the water: in and on seas, oceans, rivers and lakes. From a distance she zooms in on actions and rituals performed in and around the water. The recordings range from explicitly religious activities – such as bathing in the Ganges or a baptismal ceremony – to bathing purely for relaxation and pleasure...
DE KUNSTENAARS VLAKBIJ / LES ARTISTES À CÔTÉ
Jan Vromman“De Kunstenaars Vlakbij” (“The artists nearby”) is a series of portraits of unknown artists, produced on the occasion of the exhibition “De Eerste Trede” (“The First Stile”) at Argos Centre for Art & Media (2003). The starting point of this film was the wonderment about the basic idea that so many people are occupied with art in a serious manner...
THE APPELS
Messieurs DelmotteFilmed with a steady, distant camera, we see a boy shaking an apple tree. Consequently, he picks up the result of his action. This work is part of the series UNDO / REDO Vol. 2...
TRAVELOGUE 3: ALCHEMY BRUXELLOISE
Stefaan DecostereThe third and last part of the trilogy is a video-trip inside the ‘Poème électronique’, a bizarre and ideologically loaded film made by Le Corbusier, Varèse and Xenakis for the Philips Pavilion in the Brussels World Fair of 1958...
THE PAINTERS
Nicolas ProvostIn 'Long Live The New Flesh' Nicolas Provost adapted a number of horror films. Now he tackles this other genre film. We see drip painters at work, blobs flying around. Form and content spatter from the screen. A film that appears to be modelled out of digital clay, on the borderline between beauty and taboo....
LIBERTY: AN EPHEMERAL STATUTE
Rebecca Jane ArthurStemming from a personal account of a search for liberation set in the US during the early 70s, Liberty: an ephemeral statute reflects upon post-68 desires for emancipation, emigration, and education through an impressionistic memoir and portrait of the filmmaker’s mother back home in Scotland today....
IDIOT'S BREW
Antonin De BemelsThe videos by Antonin de Bemels are - literally - attempts: explorations of the body and gestures, of rhythm and movement. He is fascinated by the importance of a single image and interweaves all kinds of visual stimuli in a complex associative network by means of the 'scrubbing' effect, the visual equivalent of auditive 'scratching'...
PLACES (GARDENING (2))
Hans Op de Beeck‘Places (Gardening 2)’ is a short animated film without an explicit narrative structure, based on a series of pencil drawings made by the artist during his stay at P.S.1 in New York in 2002-2003. The animated film itself was made in 2004. The film does not tell a story, but presents the viewer with a sequence of constantly transforming imaginary places...
Document for the right to the everyday, Ria Pacquée, 1999. Courtesy the Artist
DOCUMENT FOR THE RIGHT TO THE EVERYDAY
Ria PacquéeThis is a recording of a performance, a protest by the faceless, anonymous artist, in the city of Ghent, in reaction to the position she finds herself in, due to the attitudes of the state toward artists in general and to herself in particular. ...
