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BUNCH OF FLOWERS
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte, as always dressed in a dandy-like costume, holds a bouquet of yellow roses. What does he have in mind for them? A few seconds later it becomes clear. Violently he starts spinning them around with the help of a drill. Delmotte keeps on spinning and spinning, until the roses are completely demolished. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...
A ALEXANDRE SERGEÏEVITCH
Marie AndréThe story unfolds in the life of a young Belgian poet who, like the great Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin, has African blood in his veins. Sometimes the poet enjoys that life, at other times he puts up with it like everyone else. Poetry, music, play, good food are the elements of his existence...
SMOKE
Roy VillevoyeMy new film Smoke on which I worked over the past half year or so, tells the story of my very good (Asmat-)friend Ndo, who got blind as a young boy. And how eventually he got new eyesight. It also tells of friendship and efforts made because of this. Of hope and loss. And of confusion dealing with all this and the unexpected paths life takes...
EUROPALIA: STEDELIJK MUSEUM AMSTERDAM 60-70
Jef CornelisDutch and International Art, 1960 to 1970: the exhibitions of works from the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam were prepared by the museum for Europalia and presented at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Geert Bekaert talks to the director of the Stedelijk Museum, M. de Wilde, and this conversation is alternated with pictures of the works from the collection. Original broadcast date: 24/09/1971...
TROU
Michel FrançoisA close-up on two hands as they try to dig a hole in the ground. The speed of the video is accelerated which gives a nervous tension, enforced by the sound, to this seemingly neverending task....
DECORATION
Florian GwinnerIn Decoration the camera spins around its own axis. Different arrangements merge. Plants, materials, electrical devices. A mini evolution of the constructedness of the world....
50 TABLOTINS MUSIQUÉS
Joëlle de La CasinièreJoëlle de La Casinière's 'Les tablotins' are graphic illuminated poems; small paintings-poems. In a video, each one of the tablotins – digitized and enlarged 15 times on the screen – appears as a fixed shot with a soundtrack for about three minutes....
THE VANITAS RECORD
Koen TheysVanitas is Latin for vanity. A Vanitas painting is a form of a still life consisting of a collection of objects that symbolise the brevity of human life and the transience of earthly pleasures and achievements. Vanitas paintings were most popular in the Netherlands of the sixteenth and seventeenth century...
