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HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Justine CappelleA short video shows the maker filming her mother in bed through the screen of a baby monitor. The video marks a shared milestone: the mother’s 60th birthday and the maker’s 30th. It begins with the maker asking about her mother’s experience of wishing for a child, which develops into a conversation about how the maker was actually an unwanted child...
A DAY FOR CAKE AND ACCIDENTS
Steve Reinke - Jessie MottReinke continues to explore the quirky possibilities of the animation film, collaborating once again with Jessie Mott, who delivers her idiosyncratic drawings, paintings and collages, plus also wrote the accompanying texts. References to cartoons and comics are once more evident, though Reinke stays somewhat of a league of its own...
EXOTICORE
Nicolas ProvostAn immigrant from Burkina Faso attempts to integrate into Norwegian society. The film explores the question of what it is like to be a foreigner searching for a niche in today’s world, and addresses the notions of solitude and contemporary insanity. Exoticore is an odyssey through our multicultural society complete with its alienation and prejudices. A dark journey into exoticism....
OTOLITH II
The Otolith GroupAs in ’Otolith I’, the narrator in ’Otolith II’ is related to Anjalika Sagar, one of the founders of the Otolith Group. Here, she is looking back from a distant future, while a pressure "high enough to change coal into diamond" functions as a metaphor for the way in which cities will in the future be confronted with continuous population growth...
HEARING THE SHAPE OF A DRUM
Marie VoignierIt was the end of April 2008, when the sleepy Austrian village of Amstetten was shocked by the news about the so-called ‘Amstetten Monster’. It turned out that for years villager Josef Fritzl had sexually abused his daughter and that he had locked her up—together with three of the children he had father by her—in a cellar he had built especially for this purpose...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 75. HOW TO BUILD AN IGLOO
Steve ReinkeSteve Reinke works with found footage this time : an educational film produced by Canada’s National Film Board....
CELEBRATION (BUENOS AIRES)
Hans Op de BeeckThe video Celebration (Buenos Aires) was made at the invitation of the MACBA (Museo d’Arte Contemporaneo de Buenos Aires). Op de Beeck went about making this video in more or less the same way he had for his earlier Celebration video (2008), working together closely with a family of migrants from a notorious, crowded slum area in the middle of town...
HIGH TIDE
Lukas MarxtHigh Tide hypnotically fixes its gaze on a landscape that’s either prehuman or postapocalyptic, but definitely a timeless arrangement in shades of gray — Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness. Stiff, dry and dully gleaming like damp tar, they tear a hole between the dark, gloomy sea and the grayish sky...
VAN ABBEMUSEUM
Jef CornelisFor the art programme on television Kunst-Zaken, Cornelis made a television report about the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (The Netherlands)...
