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MIKKADO
Michel FrançoisA clenched fist holds a bundle of mikkado-sticks. They can both be considered as cores. Each core is threatened by extinction. It hangs on, concentrates, contracts. The denser it becomes, the more imminent its extinction. The hand opens and the sticks spread out on the table....
TURKEY
Messieurs DelmotteIn this video Messieurs Delmotte juggles about with a turkey. He appears and disappears; his face is hidden behind the beast, creating an impression that the turkey is taking poses in before the camera. Delmotte, a self-declared poser, sneers at the institutionalised art world with his mischievous and surprising actions, trivial in content and simple in form...
DÉLIRIUM VIDÉO 6
Jacques LennepAnother part in this series of short sketches, consisting of recordings of performances that took place on different locations in Belgium and abroad. In Episode 6, we see the artist - amongst others - walking through the alps with a broken foot, filosophing in the royal passage of Ostend and on the beach and preparing a huge 'homard à la mayonaise'. ...
YOKO OSHA CHAPTER III OR THE FIRST DAY IS THE DAY OF THE RIVER
Lazara Rosell AlbearThe third and final chapter of the Yoko Osha trilogy. “Making Saint” is an autoethnographic, sensorial and multilayered portrait of Santeria or Regla de Osha (The rules of the gods); the AfroCuban religion, forcefully imported from West Africa with the slaves trade and falsely syncretic for survival...
CONTAINER
Messieurs DelmotteA bottle of wine is hanging from the side of a container. It is pulled towards the opening of the container by an invisible thread. Seconds before reaching the hole, the bottle falls to the ground and shatters. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...
PLACES (GARDENING (2))
Hans Op de Beeck‘Places (Gardening 2)’ is a short animated film without an explicit narrative structure, based on a series of pencil drawings made by the artist during his stay at P.S.1 in New York in 2002-2003. The animated film itself was made in 2004. The film does not tell a story, but presents the viewer with a sequence of constantly transforming imaginary places...
MENSEN EN EIEREN
Filip FrancisThis video is a document on a performance carried out by Filip Francis and a bunch of people dressed in white. They start, at an accelerating speed, throwing eggs on a wall. The viewer doesn’t see the eggs getting smashed, but only hears the crushing sound....
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 90. VIDEO FOR INTELLECTUALS
Steve ReinkeSometimes it appears we are reaching a period where our senses and minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation....
5 LESSONS AND 9 QUESTIONS ABOUT CHINATOWN
Shelly SilverYou live somewhere, walk down the same street 50, 100, 10,000 times, each time taking in fragments, but never fully registering THE PLACE. Years, decades go by and you continue, unseeing, possibly unseen...
PRÉLUDE N°3
Bernard Gigounon“It all happened one evening. I was in a bar, quietly having a drink. A man sat down beside me and as we were alone, we started talking together. We spoke about red wine, women and music and at this moment, I realized that this man was Claude Debussy. I told him that I made videos and explained my work to him...
