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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 96. CAMOUFLAGE

Steve Reinke
The beauty of the world may be all around us, but sometimes it can be hard to spot....
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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 37. JASON

Steve Reinke
When I was eight my mother died and I went to live with my grandfather who was very old....

RIB GETS IN THE WAY

Steve Reinke
Steve Reinke has long been lauded for his irreverent, philosophical, and often acerbic works, which typically adopt the form of personal essays to wryly bend and reread wide-ranging topics from pop culture to sex to theories of visual perception and beyond...

BESMETTE STAD

Johan Grimonprez
Besmette Stad TV broadcast, Belgium, 1993, 18min, restored in 2007 directed by Johan Grimonprez with Paul Garrin, Meg Stuart, Alison Murray & Pascal Baes produced by Ziggurat, Belgian TV BRT / TV1 with the support of Jan van Eyck Academy 01. Video-Guerrilleros fragment from 'Man with a Video Camera' by Paul Garrin, 2min Topic II by Pascal Baes, fragment 1 02...
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REVOLVER

Jacques Louis Nyst
As in 'La mort d’une poule’, sound plays a key role in 'Revolver’. A real hand confronts a sculpted one. It imitates its gesture, proposes new ones. Then what we have interpreted so far as a human hand suddenly turns into a revolver....
Avant-garde citizens: Samm’s story, 2007, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson © the artists Avant-garde citizens: Samm’s story, 2007, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson © the artists

AVANT-GARDE CITIZENS: SAMM’S STORY

Libia Castro - Ólafur Ólafsson
Samm relates a unique story of flight and survival. After being forcibly recruited as a soldier in Liberia, he manages to escape imprisonment and certain death, to find himself unexpectedly in Rotterdam. His experiences with the Dutch immigration and asylum system, as well as the criminal justice system, read as a saga that would be impossible to make up....

FRIDAY FISHDAY

Jan Bucquoy
The fifth part of The sex life of the Belgians tells the story of a man who refuses to or who cannot make love to women who smell strongly of fish. Returning to his native village Harelbeke and then to Ostend, film maker Bucquoy reflects on his aims as an artist and film director. “I’m fed up with making films for some hundred people. This time we’re going to be real machos...

EGO

Nicolas Provost
After a dizzying trip through the cosmos we see how an astronaut is flung into space. Rudderless, irrevocably heading for the eternal black hole. The images originate from existing films such as Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, the soundtrack offers no redemption. A dystopian vision of the future?...
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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 42. MY PERSONAL VIRUS

Steve Reinke
So this is a particle of me, this little sketch. It’s pretty schematic, but it should give you some idea of how it functions, my personal virus, my envoy into the world of corporeal intimacy....

GREAT BLOOD SACRIFICE

Steve Reinke
A walk with shaky hand held camera through the landscape of the high desert of New Mexico, down the cliffs to a water reservoir accompanied by Reinke’s voice over: “I had a dream last night. I was in a room with Joy Behar, and she had wrapped a dog in aluminum foil, and the dog couldn’t get out...