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BORDER
Hans Op de Beeck’Border’ is projected life-size and opens with the image of a number of people sitting down in an oppressively small, square space. We can hear them whispering, sighing, coughing. Then a life-size x-ray image slowly appears over the total surrounding of this environment, the image of a truck crammed with goods...
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...
DE ZEEMANNEN EN HET SCHIP
Harald ThysIn ’The Sailors and the Ship’ two former sailors muse on their past from their apartment with a view on the sea wall. A male storyteller’s voice recounts their tale. Once upon a time they were brave seamen on a beautiful ship, led by a fantastic captain. But the death of their beloved captain caused the two man so much pain and sorrow, that they never spoke again...
THE LAND WAS ALREADY OCCUPIED (THE FUTURE)
Marie VoignierFor the Ateliers de Rennes 2012, and in keeping with the spirit of Les Prairies, Marie Voignier has put herself in a real-life situation, that of looking at a building plot and investigating the different ways of approaching construction on it...
UNE PERSPECTIVE FAUSSÉE
Mira SandersUne perspective faussée (2016) is a graphical exploration of how a drawing after experiencing two residencies (from the Huet-Repolt art collectors), lines itself step by step out. This film was made before Fenêtre de vue (2016) and it explores a slightly different path...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 47. DREAM WORK
Steve ReinkeWe have been encouraged to analyse our sexless dreams as being latently sexual, full of repressed writhing bodies and blood-gorged organs. This project, this analysis is referred to as dream work. It assumes latent though is transformed by the processes of condensation and displacement into the manifest content of the dream...
ELECTION DEFEAT
Steve ReinkeTakes us back to our awkward high school years in Toledo, Ohio, 1968....
THE SUN AND THE LOOKING GLASS - FOR ONE EASILY FORGETS BUT THE TREE REMEMBERS
Miléna DesseOn a land perpetually threatened by colonial appropriation, the transmission of history and narratives plays a peculiar and vital role. The Sun and the Looking Glass - for one easily forgets but the tree remembers is an essay-film which paints a portrait of a place on a hill above Ein Qiniya, a Palestinian village in the West Bank, with two houses from the late Ottoman period...
nostalgia, 2009, Pieter Geenen © the artist. Courtesy of Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp
NOSTALGIA
Pieter GeenenEtymologically, the word ’nostalgia’ is derived from the Greek words ’nostos’ and ’algos’, meaning ’return’ and ’suffering’...
TOKYO-PICNIC
Pascal BaesThe setting is Tokyo-Sinjuku, towards the end of the month of May. Baes edits microscopic images of blossoming flora and fauna and urbane turbulence in a spastic stream of wriggling shapes and colours. The soundtrack of abrasive sounds and scouring textures complements the atmosphere of confusion and anxiety....
