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THE THREAD
Hans Op de BeeckA Chinese proverb says that an invisible thread connects those destined to meet, despite time, place and circumstances. The thread can be tightened or tangled, but will never be broken. Taking this clear and simple metaphor as my starting point, I created a video as a visual love poem about a punk girl and boy who grow old together. Love and death here go hand in hand...
THE MUSCLE AND ITS REVETMENT
Messieurs DelmotteMacho men like to show off their muscles – or not? In this early short film, Messieurs Delmotte fools around with some fake ones. We see an arm in front of a red velvet cloth that is pumpimg some really impressive biceps. Part of the series ‘Century of the 20th Sex’....
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 53.THREE PLAYS
Steve ReinkeThree mini-plays : ’How I imagined it would be’, ’Marshmallow Roast’ and ’Game of Catch’....
LA TROISIÈME VOIE
Lucile DesamoryWhile reading, a nun is waiting for the train on the platform of the station. A pickpocket thief grabs her suitcase. The nun starts the pursuit....
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 44. SELF HELP
Steve Reinke"I spent too much time worrying about the future..."...
1937 [FIRST CHAPTER OF INSTALLATION, FRENCH VERSION]
Nora Martirosyan"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...
RUNNING AROUND
Ria PacquéeIn this absurdist take on an 'Urban Trail' Ria Pacquée drifts through her hometown Antwerp while intermittently encircling various objects and structures she encounters. A run down kiosk, an artificial hill with a playground slide, a battered metal curb, a hexagonal flowerpot, a concrete ping pong table; all of which would easily disappear in the dense fabric of the urban environment...
GIRLS AND PHILOSOPHERS
Koen TheysVideo installation for two projectors. A diptych or triptych – depending on how you look at it. ’Girls and Philosophers’ sets out from two screens. Together they make out a diptych, with directly facing panels. In between, however, there is also the area which is marked off by the screens, where the spectators move about...
CONTAINER 07: OVER THEATRALITEIT
Jef CornelisA discussion about theatricality, starting from three concepts: the dramatic, the theatrical and the spectacular...
TRACE
Peter DownsbroughTRACE revisits the site of an earlier Downsbrough video, A] PART (2009). The location for both works, Brussels’s iconic Citroen garage, opened to great fanfare in 1934 as the largest automobile service center in Europe...
