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SUPERPOSITION
Filip FrancisThis work is the result of a collaboration between Filip Francis, Luc Deleu and Wout Vercammen. It is an early experiment with image in image, split screen, zoom in, fading, overlaps and other techniques that made the medium video—just out of the cradle in the 1970s—so exciting. The three artists took the camera and set out with great enthusiasm...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 26. WISH
Steve ReinkeIt has always been my wish to have been a dermatologist in Philadelphia during the Great Depression....
PORTRAIT SERIE - JONAS MEKAS
Olivier DekegelA short portrait of and homage to the legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas, generally considered as one of the major exponents of the avant-garde movement in the American cinematic landscape of the 1950s and ‘60s...
MOVING STORIES
Nicolas ProvostNicolas Provost plays once more with the grammar and the codes of (Hollywood) cinema. With a limited number of images, an absorbing soundtrack and a minimal story line, the artist tries to stimulate the viewers’ imagination to the maximum. Moving Stories strings together some four fragments of flying passenger airplanes. Gleaming in the sunlight, they glide high above the clouds...
THE ASCENT OF MAN. PART II: CONDITIONS OF MERCY
Jayce SalloumThe title of the second part ’Conditions of Mercy’ refers to religion, a key element of a certain American imagery. After all, the Man who disclaims his capital ’M’ is he not the same who faithfully sings "we are the world"? Fall is the condition of mercy...
WARUM WIR MÄNNER DIE TECHNIK SO LIEBEN
Stefaan DecostereWhat does one do in a world where it is almost impossible to distinguish between the real and the unreal? The work of the American painter Jack Goldstein, French urban architect Paul Virilio and German video artist Klaus vom Bruch show how war, speed and technology organise and reorganise reality, until only filtered reality remains....
CURUPIRA, BICHO DO MATO
Félix BlumeDeep in the heart of the Amazon, Tauary inhabitants invite us to listen to the sounds of the jungle, the birds, and animals. However, some weird sounds appear: a creature prowling around the trees. Some of them have heard her, very few have ever seen her, and those who did find her never came back...
TRAVELOGUE 2: THE METAMORPHOSES OF TINTIN
Stefaan DecostereThis episode guides us through the African Museum in Brussels and explores the different ways of the fabrication of exoticism: how to make Africa exotic, and Brussels, and Nature, and Morale, and why not Anything, such as this Travelogue: an exotic critique...
ECLIPS
Anne-Mie Van KerckhovenIn ‘Eclips’ Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven uses a disturbed fragment from Michelangelo Antonioni’s classic ‘L’Eclisse’. The film contains a scene in which actress Monica Vitti turns her back to the camera. Her turn is digitally slowed down and further manipulated by Van Kerckhoven...
PATRIA (VIVE LE ROI! VIVE LA RÉPUBLIQUE!)
Koen TheysVideo installation for 1 projector and 1 flat screenmonitor. In his book ‘The End of History and the Last Man’, the American philosopher Francis Fukuyama defends the idea that the end of history is reached. All the big ideologies of the 20th century have come to an end, he says, and they have made place for a post-ideological, neo-liberal pragmatism...









