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IJSBREKER 04: KUNST TE KOOP
Jef Cornelis - Freddy Coppens - Anton Stevens - Jackie ClaeysThe television programme ‘Ijsbreker’ always undertakes an expedition into the most dangerous areas of the cultural icy mountain ranges, reeling about this time between the peaks of visual art and the hidden iceberg of art trade, the gallery circuit, art criticism and museum policy...
EVIDENCE
Jan Dietvorst - Roy VillevoyeEvidence is a split screen film that combines disparate footage used in previous works. The film spans almost twenty years of artistic collaboration and it includes sequences from Us/Them (2001), The Bishop & The Doctor (2002), Propeller (2004), Winter Prayers (2006), The Gift (2007), The Scrap Iron Age (2008), Pressure (2009), War is Over (2011) and other films...
Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist
SILENT LETTER 19012009
Mira SandersThe second ’Silent Letter’ was written on April 15th, 2009. While the subtitles explain the rules of hopscotch and refer to a little girl who asked to play with her, we see a frozen image of a section of a breakwater (a manmade construction offering some protection to coastline). The animal sitting on the breakwater starts to run when the video shot does....
TOURIST RENOUNCEMENT
Messieurs DelmotteThe video ’Tourist renouncement’ was originally recorded in 1995 in Togo, as part of the project ‘Afrikanisch-Europäische Inspiration’, set up by Togolese artist El Loko who was living in Germany. For two months eight artists from various countries in Europe and Africa worked on this cultural exchange...
WHYMPER: DE SCHETSENDE BERGBEKLIMMER
Harald Thys - Jos De Gruyter1865: A London publisher commissions Whymper to make some sketches of a still virginal town in Switzerland: Matterhorn. Whymper is tempted by the challenging beauty of the mountain and he decides to conquer it in the company of some experienced climbers and with his sketchbook under his arm. Everything goes as planned, but when he descends the rope breaks and 4 of the company of 7 fall down...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 62. BLACK HEART
Steve ReinkeThese computer images are a model of how different tattoos might look on me....
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 56. JIN'S DREAM
Steve ReinkeI dreamt that I went to art school and when I woke up - I mean, when I graduated - I got this job designing pornographic playing cards....
ABDIJ VAN PARK HEVERLEE
Jef CornelisAt the beginning of his career, Jef Cornelis directed three analytical and poetical middle-length films about remarkable Belgian historical buildings...
FORMER EAST / FORMER WEST
Shelly Silver"Made up of hundreds of street interviews done in Berlin two years after the Reunification, Former East/Former West is a vital, surprisingly open, and at times disturbing documentary about what it means to be German at this particular moment in history. For forty-five years, residents of this divided city lived radically different lives, both in terms of ideology and everyday experience...
JAMES LEE BYARS, ANTWERPEN 18 APRIL – 7 MEI 1969
Jef CornelisDocumentary on James Lee Byars’s exhibition at the Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp (18.04.1969 / 07.05.1969). James Lee Byars, his whole body covered by a robe, talks to Walter Van Dijck about the meaning of art, the new meaning of clothes, the beauty of ’Natural Landscapes In An Urban Situation’, the role of museums and his idea that a show is a translation of his ideas...
