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DER DOPPELGÄNGER
Bernard GigounonIn this video piece from Bernard Gigounon, we take part in the birth of a loop, one that we might define as the life and death of the image of the American Hero. The actor, each and every time, is the killer of his own image, sometimes older, sometimes younger, often in different aesthetic contexts according to the respective filmic universe he inhabits...
NORTHERN DRIFT
Alexis DestoopReporting from the future, an Arctic exploration around an undefined border turns into a philosophical investigation of mankind and its environment. Assembled from personal experiences, collected testimonies and local stories, the film presents a subjective portrait of the contentious Norwegian-Russian borderland, one of hte world’s last frontiers...
THE ASCENT OF MAN. PART II: CONDITIONS OF MERCY
Jayce SalloumThe title of the second part ’Conditions of Mercy’ refers to religion, a key element of a certain American imagery. After all, the Man who disclaims his capital ’M’ is he not the same who faithfully sings "we are the world"? Fall is the condition of mercy...
RADOUB TEASER
Claude CattelainThe water level varies and the bins in the hangar move up and down....
THE BREECHES (1)
Messieurs DelmotteA person – Messieurs Delmotte himself ? – stands with his back in front of the camera. He is wearing white, almost transparent underwear; the only part filmed is his mid section. Slowly something brown and sticky is filling the underpants. An early Dadaistic piece, definitely not suited for the faint of heart. Part one of two....
ENJAMBEMENT
Lili DujourieWe are in a room with parquetry flooring. The artist, clothed in shirt and jeans, is moving about on the floor with the restlessness of the insomniac, performing sequences from her repertoire of horizontal motions developed in previous work. But when 'she' rolls over, we realize Dujourie has substituted a male model for herself...
NOU VOIX
Maxime Jean-BaptisteNou voix is an autobiographical video departing from the participation of the artist's father, as a Guyanese figurant, in the movie Jean Galmot aventurier (1990), which deals with the history of French Guiana. By re-enacting a part of the film, Maxime and his father try to amplify other kinds of voices that have been unheard in the original French film....
The Interpreter, 2009 Maria Iorio & Raphaël Cuomo © the artist(s) & producer(s)
THE INTERPRETER
Raphaël Cuomo - Maria IorioThe Interpreter proposes a perspective on mobility towards Europe as it can be perceived and experienced from the Maghreb. The video evokes the time between a clandestine crossing of the Mediterranean Sea at the end of the 90’s and a recent forced return. It is based on elements from an ongoing field research by geographer Makrem Mandhouj...
DANS LA MACHINE
Hänzel & GretzelA physical crescendo giving birth to a radical link between the body and the spirit. A fine example of Hänzel & Gretzel’s golden age....
ARBRE + PLUIE
Michel FrançoisRain ticks against a window. Through the window and through the droplets, we see a tree. This everyday image, usually overlooked, points out the poetic contrast between a continual time and a specific one....
