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Gilles Vandaele - Martijn De MeuleneireObservations of landscapes and architectures surrounding the six deportation centers of Belgium combined with testimonies of imprisoned people raises questions about the limited perception that the Belgian government allows one to have of its violent border and immigration policies....
Long Live the New Flesh, 2009 Nicolas Provost © the artist(s) & producer(s)
LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH
Nicolas Provost’Long Live the New Flesh’ deploys a technique in which the images literally consume one other and the horror in all its visual power is brought to a natural boiling point. All the ingredients that have secured Provost’s experimental art films their international success are once again present here...
Everybody, 2009, Steve Reinke and Jessie Mott © the artists
EVERYBODY
Steve Reinke - Jessie MottSteve Reinke never shrinks from exploring fears and desires, and ’Everybody’ is no exception. The video is disconcertingly simple, consisting of a number of crudely drawn animals, roughly and luridly coloured. As these animals move their mouths, voice-overs speak of bodily fluids, pain and disgust in a matter-of-fact manner, the strange made ordinary by the vocal performances...
YESTERDAY IN CITY PLANNING
Andrea Geyer’Yesterday in City Planning’ - part of Geyer’s series of ’One-Minute Videos’ - shows the hands of a designer or architect in action – scale ruler and propelling pencil at the ready...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 33. CHARMING MUTT
Steve ReinkeI once had a lover who would occasionally transform into a dog - and not even a purebred....
FLYING CHICKENS [PART]
Messieurs DelmotteWith a chicken in each hand the protagonist is launching himself off a sloping surface. The flight ends in a tumble, pulling along the two Galliformes. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...
POINT AND SHOOT
Esther JohnsonA short animation in an ongoing series of formal experiments that take instruction procedures and mechanical apparatus manuals as source material. Quick-cutting juxtapositions explore photographic instructions from SLR and Bolex manuals for taking the perfect picture and sequence in time...
WISHFUL FILMING
Sarah VanagtA pedestrian – the filmmaker equipped with a tiny pocket camera – wanders through Brussels and encounters Polish, Iranian, Brazilian, Belgian, and Moroccan workers. As she roams the city, filming the messages hidden behind the bricks, beneath the cobblestones, on the traffic poles and at the bases of statues, the wanderer wonders: ”You may be walking on a builder’s wish...
TWISTED REALISM
Maria Iorio - Raphaël CuomoTwisted Realism takes cases in italian cinema in the period of post-war reconstruction and “economic miracle” as starting point to investigate different “aesthetics of reality” and the genealogy of this epoch marked by a re-organisation of capitalism, increasing consumption, new economical and cultural influences, a large national migration, and the emergence of new technol...
DARK MATTER
Lucile DesamoryIn 1989, a wave of unidentified flying objects (UFO's) swept through Belgium. A woman, who witnessed the phenomenon, talks about her consternation....
