OVERVIEW TITLES

ORLANDO'S BOOK

Wendy Morris
At the centre of this film is a book of engravings mentioned in Agnes’ Tales. Orlando, the brother of Agnes, was awarded the book as a schoolboy in the mid-1860s for being 'The Boy Most Liked by his School fellows’. It is a book of engravings and poems about the English countryside and it shows a rather idealized view of English farm life...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 71. COREY

Steve Reinke
Dear Corey. Do you have any pen pals ? I used to have a few but I got tired of them. I guess when you start to get older it’s time to reassess who you want to spend your time with....

THE THOUSAND FACES OF GOD

Koen Theys
Different images of gods of all possible religions morph one into another as to unite in an always transforming new religion....

ASH TREE

Sarah Vanagt
"A girl touches tombstones in a graveyard. Her hand glides over the letters and carved inscriptions.  Can she read death?   Can she see death? In Ash Tree, the beginning of knowledge - the alphabet - mingles with the end of all knowledge: death...

L'Atelier - Le Public, 2008, Mira Sanders © the artist

L'ATELIER

Mira Sanders
In ’L’Atelier (extrait)’, Mira Sanders brings together a set of imaginary figures personifying an audience in a scale model of a theatre space as if it were a micro-society. This is the first work in which Mira Sanders introduced human figures...

REVOLVER

Jacques Louis Nyst
As in 'La mort d’une poule’, sound plays a key role in 'Revolver’. A real hand confronts a sculpted one. It imitates its gesture, proposes new ones. Then what we have interpreted so far as a human hand suddenly turns into a revolver....

DE NAZI

Jos De Gruyter
Before the eye of the camera a Nazi attempts to justify his acts. The scene is a parody of the ‘anonymous’ interview: the voice is scrambled and the head is not shown on screen. The relativizing testimonial is given an unreal and absurd edge through subtle pace accelerations...

WALKER, LA VALSIÈRE

Thomas Bernardet - Florent Mulot
Walker 3 is a survey of the Domaine de Valsière, in the suburbs of Montpellier. This unbuilt "natural" space, encircled by dwellings, was ravaged by a fire during the 2003 heat wave. In this lunar space that evokes a deserted battlefield and a western movie, the two artists scrutinize the terrain, searching for traces of a former state, evidence of a past life...

LOUISE

Charley Case
‘Louise’, described by the artist as "ils font l’amour, ils se battent" ("they make love, they fight each other")....

SLEEPLESS NIGHT

Koen Theys - Dirk Paesmans
The video was made during a study tour with the school where Koen Theys and Dirk Paesmans were studying. During the night, they went with a 1000 Watt spot to the dormitory of their fellow students, and filmed their reactions to the light. Afterwards these images were put in relation with a burning cross....