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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...
REMOTE SENSING
Ursula Biemann’Remote Sensing’ roams through the territories of the global sex trade, moving us from orbit around the Earth into women’s lives, spanning the globe from Eastern Europe to East Asia...
SOLO FOR TUMBLING WOODBLOCKS
Filip FrancisThe artist is setting up wooden domino blocks in the Sint-Annatunnel in Antwerp. Then he records a close-up of the blocks tumbling. His experiments with the woodblocks continue in his studio. The succesful pieces he will use again in his exhibitions, which he also records....
THE BEERS
Messieurs DelmotteBeer cans are displayed on the stairs of a building. Delmotte goes on crushing them one by one with his feet. This work is part of the series 'Rejected videos'...
PIETER ENGELS, PARAMARCHE (REVERSE EVENT)
Jef CornelisCornelis prefers to make use of the medium of television to show a work by the Amsterdam artist Pieter Engels in its conceptual form, in stead of supplying a typical purely sterile and pedantic framework. Similar to his other work from the 1960s and 1970s, Engels focuses on tiny, everyday things, creating confusion by questioning expectations and preconditions...
TOUCH
Shelly SilverA man returns, after fifty years, to Chinatown to care for his dying mother. He is a librarian, a cataloguer and recorder, a gay man, a watcher, an impersonator. He passes his time collecting images - his witnesses and collaborators. Sitting in the dark, we look at them and share his cloak of invisibility, both a benefit and a curse. TOUCH is an essay narrated from one man's point of view...
ALPHA-ZULU
Edith DekyndtFor this video Edith Dekyndt brought together images of all the flags she could find of nations worldwide, including the states the United Nations do not recognise, like Tibet, the states of the former USSR and the nomadic peoples. The flags are shown in alphabetical order at a constant pace of four images per second. A trip through the world, in the space of bary half a minute...
LA VIE COMPLEXE
Reinaart VanhoeA repetitious experiment made with a found footage-sequence. The image, showing a group of schoolchildren mounting a stairway, is blurred and distorted by wire fencing. The ragged soundtrack, at first totally incomprehensible, gets clearer and clearer as the image gradually focuses. "The complex life shows itself bit by bit to him’’, a French voice reads out at the end....
