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(SELF)TRACKING SHOT
Krassimir TerzievIn motion picture terminology, a tracking shot (also known as a dolly shot) is a shot in which the camera is mounted on a camera dolly, a wheeled platform that is pushed on rails in order to realise the movement of the viewpoint in the shot. Usualy that movement is centered on a present subject that is part of the narrative...
LA SÉRIE
Lucile Desamory1. L’infirmière cannibale A nurse is stealing corpses in order to eat up their brain. The hospital's staff eventually finds out about it. The cannibal nurse is brutally killed and buried in the garden… 2. Le générateur d’ondes électro-psychiques Witold works in a bank during the day but at night, he is building an electro-psychic waves generator...
11DE BIËNNALE MIDDELHEIM ANTWERPEN, 6 JUNI - 3 OKT. '71
Jef CornelisTwo programs on the 11th Middelheim Sculpture Biennial in 1971. 07.06.1971 – 4’55 Official opening of the Biennal. Pictures of sculptures, mainly American and Dutch. The curator of the Dutch section, Eugène Terwind, has installed sculptures in a garden created for the occasion by Dutch artists, and that looks like an urban district. 15.06...
INSIDE RUMOURS
Hugo Pauwels - Sabine Van Der LindenSome buildings radiate a personality of their own through their shape and environment. Apparently they exist there, in and of themselves, unaffected by time and human restlessness. Still, every window hides an existence. This is the short story of one of these buildings, filmed over 24 hours, in which flashes of the people that live there and rumours peep through...
THE MIME AND THE APE
Erik BüngerIn the film Silent Movie (1976) a film director places a phone call to Marcel Marceau to ask him to star in a silent film. The world famous mime picks up the phone and shouts “No!”. Thirty-five years later the exact same stunt is repeated by Cesar, the chimpanzee protagonist in Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)...
SANGUINE
Lili DujourieIt's the one work in which Dujourie doesn’t perform migratory passage on and off camera. Rather, she slouches on a stool in the corner of a room, legs spread, hands between them, leaning against a wall most of time as though fatigued or bored. It's the only time she appears in feminine fashion and much more make-up than usual...
DRIFTING
Hans Op de Beeck'Drifting' is a narrative video in which an old man is heard off-screen, bidding farewell to his beloved. It becomes clear from his account that she committed suicide when they were both still young. At the end of his life, he speaks of the tragedy and of her inconceivable beauty, which he carries in his memory...
... AND
Peter DownsbroughThis film essentially consists of one continuous shot taken from the train window during its stop in the station of Metz, France. By way of prelude, … AND opens with a fixed camera shot, a straight, razor-sharp positioning - an image of cars driving in the city. Then, we dive into the film by way of a traveling shot from the window of the train...
WIE GEWOHNT. EIN VERSATZSTÜCK
Eran Schaerf - Eva Meyer‘As Habitual’ is a set piece, a documentary fiction, about how to adapt oneself to unknown regions without surrendering to them. This movie is situated in Mombassa and Zanzibar, where you can find a material called Khanga that hovers between language and architecture, and in fact turns into a habit...
