OVERZICHT TITELS

Battles of Troy, 2005, Krassimir Terziev © the artist

BATTLES OF TROY

Krassimir Terziev
“Battles of Troy” is a study on the internal economy of contemporary globalized cinema production, seen through the eyes of the lowest unit in the production hierarchy - the extras. The focus of the study is the making of the Warner Bross Motion Picture “Troy” (2004). Starting in 2003 with a budget of 185 000 000 USD, Troy is one of the most expensive productions ever made...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 97. UNDERWEAR

Steve Reinke
I’m not wearing any underwear....

INSERT COIN HIGHWAY CAR

Hans Op de Beeck
The viewer drops a coin in the slot machine and an image of a small child in a kiddie car appears. The car’s movement tips the child back and forth. Instead of enjoying the ride, the child appears sullen and unhappy. (Source: www.hansopdebeeck.com)...

THE MIME AND THE APE

Erik Bünger
In the film Silent Movie (1976) a film director places a phone call to Marcel Marceau to ask him to star in a silent film. The world famous mime picks up the phone and shouts “No!”. Thirty-five years later the exact same stunt is repeated by Cesar, the chimpanzee protagonist in Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)...

SHIFT OF ATTENTION

Manon de Boer
In one take of 50 minutes a woman is filmed while listening to an actor who’s reading a transcription of her own monologues of memories of Los Angeles. Her stories were recorded on several occasions during two years after she came back from a long stay in Los Angeles...

LE SEMEUR DE PENSÉES

Jacques Lennep
Lennep goes undercover in Monet’s garden in Giverny. Without anyone noticing, he sows extra flowers....

JAN BRUSSELMANS

Jef Cornelis
Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Titles. 11’20" Pictures of the Flemish Expressionist painter’s work in the context of the retrospective devoted to him in Bruges. Alternating with photographs of Jan Brusselmans working in his studio. (No spoken commentary)...

END CREDITS

Ken Kobland
Filmed over a few nights in the late Ron Vawter’s dressing room during the show ‘Roy Cohn/Jack Smith’ at the Kitchen, NYC, in October 1993, this tape is a small but poignant homage to an extraordinary talent....

IJSBREKER 21: MODE

Jef Cornelis - Jackie Claeys - Freddy Coppens - Mark De Geest
An episode of ‘Ijsbreker’ on contemporary fashion. Several designers and stylists are presented, from different generations and traditions. Recorded right before the first heyday of the Antwerp fashion academy, the urge for innovation is still pretty subdued in this programme...

QUOD

Alexis Destoop
‘Quod’ is based on medical macro pictures of the eye. Through animation techniques the inner depth of the perceived “object” was accentuated. Then the animation was integrated into a 3D model, which was conceived as an unfolding surface. Contradictory principles are bundled together in a slowly transforming dynamic, a hypnotic dance of micro movements....