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THE RESIDENTS

Vincent Meessen
Barry meets Lucy. They’re both artists living in Europe. He’s an American, she wants to be one. He has no visa, she wants dual nationality. There are no amorous feelings between them, just a preoccupation with hospitality, citizenship and art...

THE OTHER SIDE

Peter Downsbrough
In his early work Downsbrough was already trying to generate syntax between place and meaning, language and space. ’The Other Side’ shows two aspects of the urbane surroundings: the anonymous commotion of the city centre and the intimate alienation within the flats. A street scene is followed by a long shot of a bickering man and woman, the camera keeps close after them...

MISSING EYES

Emmanuel Van der Auwera
Missing Eyes is a single channel video installation in cinemascope format displayed in a projection room. A facial recognition and eye tracking software has been used to measure the eye movement and emotional responses of a group of viewers to a video of the terrorist group ISIS...

MYODESOPSIES (PROBABLE SONG)

Edith Dekyndt
Myodesopsia is a term derived from Greek (muiôdès,opsis) and refers to the “spots” we see when we close our eyes or when we poke into them for some time, as this stimulates their appearance. One of the possible explanations for the observation of these small dots is that they have to do with remnants of tissue that belong to an embryonic state of the body...

APPLE

Shelly Silver
APPLE is an fast-edited assemblage of views and details of a big sculpture in the public space shaped as a green apple alternated to a postcard of Paris' Eiffel Tower....

TUNE IN

Esther Johnson
"Ham Radio, the Space Age hobby where the world is your friend." Tune In follows the intriguing world of amateur radio operators, better known as Radio HAMS. Although amateur by definition, Radio HAMS are unique enthusiasts involved in a pastime that requires a rigorous licensing exam taking months of study...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 33. CHARMING MUTT

Steve Reinke
I once had a lover who would occasionally transform into a dog - and not even a purebred....

HF REMIX 1

Pascal Baes
HF Remix 1 is a mathematical rearrangement of fragments of old 16mm films through the systematic adaptation of the ’Height Field’ effect on images. The film ’Rainbow market’ shows a series of performances carried out at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and at the Saint-Gilles flower market in Brussels...

MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Jef Cornelis
In this short documentary film, Georges Adé (1936-1992), is sitting in the Antwerp municipal library, presents the book Culture is our business (1970) by the Canadian philosopher and communication theorist Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980). Adé shows reproductions of advertisements from the book and reads extracts from it...

WINDY APPEARANCE

Messieurs Delmotte
In front of his camera, Messieurs Delmotte poses in a park. With precision and highly concentrated, he licks cigarette rolling papers that he sticks onto his face. The wind plays an important role in this remarkable performance. This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 2...