OVERZICHT TITELS

SUDEUROPA

Raphaël Cuomo - Maria Iorio
Sudeuropa examines the ways in which European and Italian immigration policies materialise on location by reconfiguring the space, time and the daily life of the Italian island Lampedusa...

LE SPECTATEUR

Michel Lorand
The Medea installation is made up of a large, square table with four video monitors. A single actor or actress is seen on three of the four monitors, from the waist up and frontal. The fourth monitor shows only text. The starting point is a short prose piece written by Lorand about a young woman intending to kill her two children after the end of her relationship with their father...

S*CKMYP [4 SHORT FILMS VERSION]

Kurt D'Haeseleer
S*CKMYP drops the spectator in a world continuously bombarded with digital fragmentation bombs. People wander through a kaleidoscopic labyrinth of trembling bodies and mutating buildings until they are swallowed by a yawning void. Lost pixels nestle like parasites under the skin and drag them through an everyday world that looks strange beyond recognition...

(PAS) MON PAYS, PART I AND II

Bie Michels
Bie Michels was born and raised in Congo, in a house on the campus of the current University of Kinshasa (former 'Lovanium', the first university in the country, 1954-1971). As the title indicates, (Pas) Mon Pays, Part I and II is in two parts...

DOCUMENTA 4

Jef Cornelis
When Professor Arnold Bode thought up Documenta 1 in 1955, his first job was putting West-Germany, arisen from the ashes, back on the international map. When Documenta 4 takes place in 1968 the international art world is entangled in an authority crisis as well, as Roger Raveel indicates: ”worn threadbare”...

I FEEL COLD TODAY

Patrick Bernatchez
Beginning with a travelling shot in the ascending elevator, I Feel Cold Today depicts a deserted office space slowly filling up with snow that appears to be blowing in through an open window....

epic (malhame), Julia Meltzer & David Thorne, 2008 © the artists & producer

EPIC (MALHAME)

Julia Meltzer - David Thorne
“2 years ago when I was a donkey they used to hit me so I didn’t fall into the hole that is at the edge of the valley. I used to always walk along the edge of the valley, reach the hole, move around it, and then continue walking. Of course, that is after I fell into it the first time...

THE DESERTER

Harald Thys - Jos De Gruyter
In the woods a strange character is discovered by the local authorities. A couple of scientists under the supervision of a doctor and an examining magistrate go into the matter and try to discover who the reticent man is....

TASTE THE WORLD

Wendy Morris
‘Taste the World’ explores tourist notions of the ‘Third World’ as a playground for Europe. The title is derived from a promotional brochure in which travellers are encouraged to “taste the world”. The subtext makes clear that this ‘world’ is mainly there for the Eurostractrates with their unbridled leisure time and financial means...

RAOUL DE KEYSER

Jef Cornelis
A view on Raoul de Keyser’s exhibition in the contemporary art section of the Royal Museum in Antwerp: views of the museum, entrance hall and rooms housing the Raoul de Keyser exhibition. Raoul de Keyser strolls with Jef Cornelis across a football pitch in Deinze talking about the influence of football on his paintings. We see a few paintings on football pitch themes....