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Silent Elections, 2009 Sarah Vanagt © the artist(s) & producer(s)
SILENT ELECTIONS
Sarah VanagtThe power goes off and the screen goes black: one of those innumerable moments of darkness when the buried memories from decades of conflict suddenly resurface. In the streets of Goma, children play at being news correspondents: Congo is preparing for its first democratic elections since 1960...
DÉLIRIUM VIDÉO 7
Jacques LennepPart seven in this series of short sketches, consists mainly of performances the artist gave in Belgium and abroad. Paying homage to amongst others Marcel Broodthaers and Belgian surrealists, we see the artist functioning as a ironic priest, giving away for free his artwork to the audience after he cut it into pieces, or making a new absurd installation in his studio based on found footage....
THE SIMPLE FACT OF NOT BEING A WOMAN (1)
Messieurs DelmotteIn this early piece, part one of two, Messieurs Delmotte dresses up as some disco diva, dancing naked in front of the camera on a thumping disco beat. Is it so easy not being a woman?...
THE PORTERS
Sarah VanagtFlemish filmmaker Sarah Vanagt asks young people around Brussels to play a well-known European memory game, in which players must repeat and then add to an ever-growing list of items that they would take with them on a trip...
AGAIN ON THE SEAS
Joëlle de La CasinièreWhile they were in Peru in 1973-74 to shoot movies, artists and poets Joëlle de La Casinière and Michel Bonnemaison decided to invite photographer and film director Carlos Ferrand on a trip across the Andes and through the coastal desert along the Pacific Ocean with a Leica camera and a precise mission: constantly photographing out the window of the riding Land-Rover...
KARAOKE PLAY FUJI
Bernard GigounonA white line (a read-and-write head) scanning the landscape guides the musical composition. By using karaoke as an inspiration, and while invoking the tacky universe that in Japan surrounds Mountain Fuji, Gigounon pays homage to this cultural symbol....
IT SEEMS TO BE LONELINESS BUT IT IS NOT
Lukas MarxtHumans are social beings. But what are they when isolated and lonely? In It Seems To Be Loneliness But It Is Not Lukas Marxt puts himself in this situation by going to a place where human encounters and exchange can hardly be expected. The artist moves through an inhospitable location...
IJSBREKER 12: DE KUNST VAN HET TAFELEN
Jef Cornelis - Jackie Claeys - Mark De Geest - Karel SchoetensA programme about dining, cooking and eating. An outlook on the kitchens and the tables of a cookery club and a restaurant, under the watching eye of lawyer and trendsetter John Bultinck...
FACE À FACE
Eric Pauwels‘Face à face’ is considered by many to be nothing more than a “simple recording” of a performance by Michèle Anne De Mey. The spirit of the performance is certainly sublimely reproduced, but there is more. ‘Face à face’ is to some extent the synthesis of Pauwels’s earlier experiments...
