OVERVIEW TITLES
Search collection
MADRIGAAL
Lili DujourieA bare wooden floor fills the screen. Encircled tightly by the camera, a clothed figure rolls, folds and unfolds upon itself between pauses of variable duration. Resorting to the close-up reinforces the sculptural aspect of the body. A contrapuntal rhythm emerges as each successive change in form overlaps the previous one in a movement that never discloses the contours of a fixed state of being...
DE KUNSTENAARS VLAKBIJ / LES ARTISTES À CÔTÉ
Jan Vromman“De Kunstenaars Vlakbij” (“The artists nearby”) is a series of portraits of unknown artists, produced on the occasion of the exhibition “De Eerste Trede” (“The First Stile”) at Argos Centre for Art & Media (2003). The starting point of this film was the wonderment about the basic idea that so many people are occupied with art in a serious manner...
S*CKMYP [4 SHORT FILMS VERSION]
Kurt D'HaeseleerS*CKMYP drops the spectator in a world continuously bombarded with digital fragmentation bombs. People wander through a kaleidoscopic labyrinth of trembling bodies and mutating buildings until they are swallowed by a yawning void. Lost pixels nestle like parasites under the skin and drag them through an everyday world that looks strange beyond recognition...
L'OBJET
Jacques Louis NystThe discovery of a child’s toy: a small blue metallic coffee pot, presents a complete enigma to an archaeologist of the future. The scientist no longer has any information at his disposal on Twentieth Century civilization. Patiently he attempts to unveil the significance of the object...
PARADE
Hans Op de BeeckParade is an art video staged by Hans Op de Beeck on the scene of a theatre. The red velvet curtain opens, a slow waltz, composed especially for this film, starts playing, while a seemingly endless cavalcade of people comes walking by, in slow motion, like a stream of passers-by in a street...
LAURIEN, MARCH 1996
Manon de BoerIn 1996 Manon de Boer made a series of black-and-white portraits with Super 8 – her first time-based work. She filmed a couple of her friends during moments of intense concentration: Laurien reading a book, Robert playing guitar. These are moments when they forget, just for an instance, what is staring at them; they are unaware of the camera’s presence...
Not a matter of if but when: brief records of ... , 2006, Julia Meltzer and David Thorne © the artists
NOT A MATTER OF IF BUT WHEN: BRIEF RECORDS OF A TIME IN WHICH EXPECTATIONS WERE REPEATEDLY RAISED AND LOWERED AND PEOPLE GREW EXHAUSTED FROM NEVER KNOWING IF THE MOMENT WAS AT HAND OR STILL TO COME
Julia Meltzer - David ThorneNot a matter of it but ... when was developed in 2005–06 in Damascus, Syria...
QUE SERÁ SERÁ: SOSIE D'ELVIS
Jacques Lederlin - Joëlle de La CasinièreIn a tournament of look-alikes, the winner is a robot that resembles Elvis Presley perfectly. A man is singing about this strange event....
GEESTELIJKE GEZONDHEIDSZORG (1): HET PSYCHIATRISCH ZIEKENHUIS
Jef CornelisOriginal broadcast date: 18/02/1975...
AS ] THEN
Peter DownsbroughIn AS ] THEN static, photographical images are alternated with, among others, shots from a driving car. The recordings were partly made in the immediate surroundings of the former Wielemans-Ceuppens brewery in Brussels; the locations consist of building yards, the railroad, a crossroad and a railway viaduct. These images are linked to recordings made on Boulder Highway in Las Vegas...
