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The Journey, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist
THE JOURNEY
Mira Sanders’The Journey’ is a hand-held camera shot of a giant cardboard model, consisting of images that refer to travelling. While some parts of the model move while filming, the camera itself slowly recedes, finally resulting in a frontal view of the whole model...
Disorient, Laurent Van Lancker, 2010 © the artist & producer
DISORIENT
Laurent Van Lancker - Florence AignerA polyphony of tales by migrants who return to their homeland after having lived abroad. Whether they are Vietnamese, Indian, Syrian, Iranian, Chinese, Pakistani, academics, contract workers, political refugees, businessmen or students, they all are confronted with a second exile: coming home...
FROM AFAR
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....
THE GIRL
Hans Op de BeeckThe Girl is a slow, suggestive, perception-oriented animated film in which the viewer is transported to the strange world of a silent, 14-year-old girl. The dreamy landscape images show a dark forest, a vast landfill, a gas station, a highway landscape, a meadow, a factory site and a mysterious lake. Amidst all this stands an old caravan...
Eva Claus Any way
ANY WAY
Eva ClausAny Way shows three people running together on an athletics track. The repetitive motion introduces the rhythm to a serene trance. The act of running itself is the focal point of the film: a continuous movement suspended in time. Varying frame rates allow the viewer to examine details of the motion that would otherwise be obscured by their own speed...
A NECESSARY MUSIC
Beatrice GibsonA Necessary Music is a science fiction film about modernist social housing. A musically conceived piece, referencing the video operas of Robert Ashley, the film explores the social imaginary of a utopian landscape through directed attention to the voices that inhabit it. Roosevelt Island is a small sliver of land situated between Manhattan and Queens, intersected by the Queensborough Bridge...
DOCUMENTA 4
Jef CornelisWhen Professor Arnold Bode thought up Documenta 1 in 1955, his first job was putting West-Germany, arisen from the ashes, back on the international map. When Documenta 4 takes place in 1968 the international art world is entangled in an authority crisis as well, as Roger Raveel indicates: ”worn threadbare”...
VIDÉO-FIL
Jacques LennepIn his ‘relational’ video work Lennep investigates into art as an idiom and a structure; how to perceive art and the relationship between art and society. ‘Vidéo-fil’ is a recording of a performance. During a first act Lennep draws an uninterrupted, squiggly line on his face, with a black felt-tip, after which he envelops his head with tape...
DE MATERIE: ARCHITECTUUR EN BELGIË
Aglaia KonradAglaia Konrad makes photos and videos of globalised urban spaces. She is particularly interested in worldwide urban development and pays special attention to urban programmes that have been sidelined -- projects that were never fully accepted or completed. With De Materie (The Matter or The Material), Konrad focuses on Belgium, the country where she lives...
untitled part 2: beauty and the east, Jayce Salloum, 1999-2003 © the artist & producer
UNTITLED PART 2: BEAUTY AND THE EAST
Jayce SalloumPart 2 in a series of attempts at concretizing the notion of interstitiality, this videotape addresses issues of nationalism & the nation state, polarities of time, alienation, the refusal & construction of political identities, ethno-fascism, the body as object & metaphor, agents, monsters & abjectness, subjective affinities, and objective trusts...
