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ORLANDO'S BOOK
Wendy MorrisAt the centre of this film is a book of engravings mentioned in Agnes’ Tales. Orlando, the brother of Agnes, was awarded the book as a schoolboy in the mid-1860s for being 'The Boy Most Liked by his School fellows’. It is a book of engravings and poems about the English countryside and it shows a rather idealized view of English farm life...
THE SWANS
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte lures swans with pieces of bread and then throws tomato sauce at them from a bucket. This work is part of the series What's Done, Evil's Done / Ce Qui est Fait, le Mal est Fait...
KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST GEEN KRITIEK? 1. WANNEER HET WOORD “KUNST“ TOT KOPEN AANZET
Jef CornelisPart of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art NOT Criticism?”, ’When the word ’art’ urges someone to buy’ is a report on a painting and framework factory, producing 300.000 oil paintings each year. Outworkers produce 50 pieces a day...
BUILDING STORIES #001 (THAT DISTANT PIECE OF MINE)
Els OpsomerBuilding Stories # 001 [That Distant Piece Of Mine] is a 16mm film recorded in Senegal; reportedly the most accessible West African country, a tourist destination with a renowned hospitality. Far from the "clichés" shows this film a poetic stroll through a topical Senegal...
PORTABLE STONES
Orla BarryThe work of Orla Barry is like a wall of words, constructed from images – or a wall of images, made up from words. One cannot exist without the other. Raised and bred in Ireland, she explores the semantics and the iconography of her mother tongue...
BEAUTY PLUS PITY
Cooper Battersby - Emily Vey DukeThe contemporary fables of Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby propose that existence is abject, farcical, and messy. In their richly textured videos, Duke and Battersby employ live action footage, scavenged images, and simple animations to create episodic structures that evince a simultaneously utopian and dystopian world view...
THE SCRAP IRON AGE
Roy Villevoye - Jan DietvorstFor the Questioning History exhibition, Roy Villevoye and Jan Dietvorst produced a new film that, in a certain sense, is a sequel to Winter Prayers, a film from 2006 about memories of the First World War...
untitled part 6: upon the resonance of histories, Jayce Salloum, 2009-2010 © the artist & producer
UNTITLED PART 6: UPON THE RESONANCE OF HISTORIES
Jayce SalloumParihaka (on the north island of Aotearoa/New Zealand) is seen by many nationally and internationally as a symbol of non-violent resistance, and a Maori struggle for contemporary and historical justice ...
CONTAINER 05: HET CYNISME VAN ERNEST CLAES
Jef CornelisA discussion about the Belgian author Ernest Claes, starting from the consideration that his work is liable to a double reduction in the way it is received. First of all, based on his book ’De Witte’, he is considered as a protagonist of heimat literature, whereas his work as a journalist is excluded...
