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ONE BY ONE
Marie Voignier - Vassilis SalpistisOne by one is a fifteen minute experimental film-collage, which is composed by a number of testimonies and texts relating to historical events and crisis in Greece. The assemblage converges the exploration of contemporary applications of the function of myth. To a great extend consisting of filmed photographs, even when in motion the images of the film suggest the stillness of a stable shot...
TOPOLOGIC
Cel CrabeelsCrabeels’s work ‘Topologic’ records the prolonged contortions of a man attempting to put on, and to take off again, a piece of clothing. Here the body is used both as a terrain of experiment, and as a metaphor for artist’s labour of inhabiting space in general...
LES VACANCES DE NOËL
Jan BucquoyWith 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...
IDÉALE AUDIENCE : UN PAYSAGE TÉLÉVISUEL EN FRANCE
Joëlle de La CasinièreIdéale audience is a television ‘commedia dell’Arte’, written in TV. The composition of the work presents variations on three themes: the self-promotion of TV channels, the ideal audience filmed in a listening attitude, and ecstatic female announcers. All these stanzas are interspersed with McLuhanesque questions about the television medium, posed by cartoon characters...
TWILIGHT
Michel LorandThis film, taken on a stormy day along the coast of the North Sea, simultaneously registers the development of a storm and the descent of nightfall. The wide panoramic image shows us a stretch of sand and surf, and the turbulent sky above. A courageous walker passes by with his dog. The camera too braves the harsh weather conditions...
IN THE ABSENCE OF HEROES (PART IV): WARFARE / A CASE FOR CONTEXT
Jayce SalloumIn the Absence of Heroes: Warfare/A Case for Context was part of a continuing series of works investigating social manifestations filling the gaps in our lives through media/corporate and government propagated images and idea(l)s. The videotapes present contextualized concepts/fragments of personal/emotional traumatic experiences and conflict...
COMME S’IL Y AVAIT DES PYRAMIDES
Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle NystIn the heart of the milky way, on a starry planet, there are two houses each with a purpose. The first is a glassy pyramid which enables one to see more clearly. The second is a cottage within whose walls one’s imagination can run beyond the limits of the eye. That very day, Theresa chose the path in between the two houses...
RIPARIA, RIPARIA
Marion GuillardOn a birdwatching tour of the Doel polders in 2020, I came across a pile of sand in the middle of a traffic circle, itself in the middle of the industrial port of Antwerp. This pile of sand is a monumental sculpture, shaped by hundreds of shore swallows...
THE MUSIC BOX
Jef CornelisIn 1932 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy shot ’The Music Box’, a remake of ’Hats Off’, their silent movie from 1927. The location in both films is the same; the only thing that is different is the object the movers Ollie and Stan have to drag up: in the first draught it is an automatic washing machine, in the second a piano...
