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Avant-garde citizens: Mpia’s story, 2007, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson © the artists

AVANT-GARDE CITIZENS

Libia Castro - Ólafur Ólafsson
’Avant-garde Citizens’ steps into the lives and identities of refugees in the world today, using the Netherlands as a departure point. The project is a series of video-portraits of people who have become enmeshed in the viciously complicated and torturously slow Dutch immigration and asylum system...

... BECAUSE SUPERGLUE IS FOREVER!!!

Johan Grimonprez
“Yesterday Salam Khamas, at the age of 93, married Mrs.Um Ahmed, at the tender age of 105, in the town of Basra, Iraq. It was sunny. The newly weds were both found dead in their honeymoon bed this morning. Mrs.Um Ahmed was still wearing her wedding dress...

ER LIGT EEN VIDEO IN DE SOEP

Stefaan Decostere
An overview of the history of video art till 1983. Unconventional in style and international in scope, the work presents an overview of artists and independents working in television. Excerpts of tapes, installations and interviews are introduced through playful use of sophisticated graphics...

DE ZEGE VAN DE SLANG / LE TRIOMPHE DU SERPENT

Jan Vromman
An ode to simplicity. In this video the universe is reduced to the limits of a terrarium. But since the setting is rather barren and the beast so solitary, God separates the sky from the earth and populates the world with animals and plants. But then he commits a grave error by installing men in the centre of this universe, because before one notices, hell itself brakes loose....

IN SEARCH OF WHITE

Ria Pacquée
Ria Pacquée takes the camera for a stroll around the three very different environments of city, mountain and sea. Cataloguing the white objects and images found, these three chapters isolate symbols and colourlessness, exploring absence and negativity in three different contexts. Each image evokes a range of associations and responses, whether emotional or intellectual...

JACK

Roy Villevoye
A meeting of a chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) with a camouflaged German helmet from World War I....

BLACK BEHIND WHITE

Andreas Brehmer
In this video compilation, Brehmer toys around with words, images and sounds as in some sort of visual essay concerned with how we perceive things, how we describe them and how we deal with them. In order to understand what we see, a certain amount of belief in what we see is indispensable. Brehmer tests the associative imaginative powers of the spectator...

J'ESPÈRE QUE VOUS ALLEZ BIEN

Boris Van der Avoort
Taken from film archives, this playful and nostalgic ‘montage’ wants to picture the lives and hopes of three generations of a Belgian family between 1931 and 1997. Images belonging to the family possessions take us back to childhood and play, journeys, relationships, dancing...

VILLA EMPAIN

Katharina Kastner
Katharina Kastner's experimental short film about a museum of contemporary art in Brussels, Villa Empain, builds upon concepts of psychogeography and draws a mental map of a space as it goes through time...