OVERZICHT TITELS

TOPIC II

Pascal Baes
The French film theorist André Bazin used to consider film as a spell of time. He spoke triumphantly of a victory on the irreversibility and the transitoriness of life. Baes’ ‘Topic I & II’ (the painterly quality of its dusky images is for a good reason reminiscent of Francis Bacon’s strokes) seem to question these transcendent views on cinematography...

VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): COMPOSITION TRIANGULAIRE

Jacques Lennep
A short formal study on triangular images, shot in the woods and featuring the artist as a performer. The work is conceptual: the camera 'scans' the surroundings showing triangles formed by the legs of the artist, the branches of a tree, a stone, etcetera....

OTOLITH II

The Otolith Group
As in ’Otolith I’, the narrator in ’Otolith II’ is related to Anjalika Sagar, one of the founders of the Otolith Group. Here, she is looking back from a distant future, while a pressure "high enough to change coal into diamond" functions as a metaphor for the way in which cities will in the future be confronted with continuous population growth...

AND_04-2020

Peter Downsbrough
In: Place #3, Janvier/ January 2021, D’UNE PLACE L’AUTRE / CHANGING PLACES https://www.place-plateforme.com/place3/peter-downsbrough-and.html AND_04.2020 opens with a black screen and the sound of a man’s voice rising over the noise of traffic. His words are hard to distinguish, but their tones and cadence indicate they might be Chinese...

THÉRÉSA PLANE

Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle Nyst
'Thérésa Plane’ is an itinerary in the form of an infinity symbol shaped loop. At its point of intersection a frog who thinks that everything is pretty and Thérésa whose principle activity is to glide, meet. A love story between the frog and Thérésa ensues. All would have gone quite well, were it not for the intervention of destiny...

REAL TO REAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Messieurs Delmotte
In ’Real to real photography’ a young man is shown, among others, blowing a whistle. Furthermore the image of a woman onscreen is half covered, a man is bombarded with fruit, a woman smokes a cigarette without taking it from her mouth and a head disappears behind a mountain of whipped cream...

CHOCOLATE FACE

Messieurs Delmotte
Part of the series 'Century of the 20th Sex', this ultrashort film shows Messieurs Delmotte getting messy with some Nutella....

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)...

A SONG OF LONGING

Wendy Morris
A story of a search and a song. It is three hundred years since the artist’s family fled France when she returns to the villages in which they once lived. She walks a circle around these three small villages looking for a memory of their absence. She pays attention to the less obvious. She looks for clues in the weeds that grow on the verges. She listens for sounds that are missing....

THE WAVE

Sarah Vanagt - Katrien Vermeire
In "The Wave" the archaeological gaze of the viewer is set in motion: a mass grave from the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) opens and closes itself. In 2011 we placed a camera above the spot where nine victims were buried after their execution by Franco’s supporters in June 1939...