OVERVIEW TITLES

EVERYBODY LOVES NOTHING (EMPATHIC EXERCIZES)

Steve Reinke
Reinke completed ‘Everbody Loves Nothing’ during his stay as an artist-in-residence at Video In in Vancouver. For this film, Reinke used archival footage from the Prelinger Archive in New York. The seven episodes are linked thematically. Each one takes an archival clip and inserts a narrator who, while speaking in the first person, moves smoothly between the first and third....

ZOUFS

Tom Boccara - Noé Reutenauer - Emilien Vekemans - Patrick Debaix
The sun is about to rise. Up on the roof Michel sees everything, hears everything and feels everything. The view is beautiful, time is passing by. Down in the city, seven extraordinary characters go through the day. Here comes the moon now and it looks like a banana!...

BEWARE PEOPLE

Luc Gobyn
‘Beware People’ is part four of ‘Une Victoire Americaine’. The video shows how the eye of a digital camera tracks the roads for signs of life in a landscape. The running text is derived from the pamphlets, which were dropped from the Afghan skies for the Afghan citizen at the start of the American invasion...

GENT, 10 JUNI 1989, VOOR GERALDINE NEREA

Jan Vromman
In this video Vromman shows us virtuoso how a “plan séquence” is capable of exploring a given spatial arrangement notably an abandoned church in Ghent. It is as though the camera possesses a will of its own, or, more appropriately, as it became itself a dancer within the given space...

THE PERFECT WAVE

Nicolas Provost
The Perfect Wave is a fascinating looped video of a surfer who keeps going and going on what indeed looks like a perfect wave. It’s a metaphor for what the artist calls the human desire for an endless orgasm....

LES VACANCES DE NOËL

Jan Bucquoy
With this tenth part Jan Bucquoy calls his ‘Decalogue on the sexual life of Belgians’ a day – even though parts eight and nine are apparently still in various stages of pre-production...

TEDDY DOG MOTHER

Messieurs Delmotte
A toy animal lies on a black background. Slowly, it moves shivering. When the camera zooms in, we see a knife going through its chest. The formerly rather small looking peluch animal is in fact a lot larger then it seemed. It even gives birth to Messieurs Delmotte himself. The work is part of Delmotte’s early ‘Century of the 20th Sex’ series....

IJSBREKER 12: DE KUNST VAN HET TAFELEN

Jef Cornelis - Jackie Claeys - Mark De Geest - Karel Schoetens
A programme about dining, cooking and eating. An outlook on the kitchens and the tables of a cookery club and a restaurant, under the watching eye of lawyer and trendsetter John Bultinck...

BOUWEN IN BELGIË

Jef Cornelis
A documentary that attempts to analyse the process of building as it is drawn in the minds and mentality of the people who occupy the house. It is a cinematic expression that wants to present examples of the ways in which the occupants, oriented on the pragmatic, create their own environment in spite of the official regulations...

PIET MONDRIAAN

Jef Cornelis
Peter Struycken, one of the first European artists to make use of the computer, compares Composition in Black and White, the first abstract painting by Piet Mondriaan, to a computer programme-simulated copy – ‘Computer Composition With Lines’ by Michael Noll, who was a scientific advisor for the White House at the time...