OVERZICHT TITELS
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UPRIGHT DRUM IN WATER
Pieter GeenenProtagonist in Upright Drum In Water is the age-old Montezuma cypress or ahuehuete* (Taxodium mucronatum) 'El Sargento' in Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, which is believed to be planted around the year 1460, in pre-colonial times. To many native people of Mexico this species is sacred, and associated with authority. In 1910 it became the country’s national tree...
LIED VAN MIJN LAND
Koen Theys - Frank TheysThe German 19th century composer Richard Wagner wrote the operas Ring des Nibelungen and Parcifal in order to shape his vision on the relationships in society. Koen and Frank Theys have treated Wagner’s Ring with an immoral curiosity and have enriched it with personal and contemporary themes...
DE ZWANEN VAN ROGER RAVEEL [TRIËNNALE BRUGGE]
Jef CornelisRaveel’s four swans were made for the Second Bruges Triennial 1971. We see Raveel and his assistants trying for the third time to put the swans into the waters of the Reien. Original broadcast date: 19/08/1971 Content: 00’00" Calendar. 00’30" View of a council workman pushing a cart containing Roger Raveel’s four swans made for the Second Bruges Arts Triennial...
FLASHFORWARD
Eran Schaerf - Eva MeyerThe work of Meyer and Schaerf explores the transitional area between the meaningless and the meaningful, especially the process during which unrelated scraps of meaning move between various possibilities, ultimately converging into a cluster of emotions and associations. At the same time traditional sign systems of language, image and sound are undermined and new relations are proposed...
PIETER ENGELS, PARAMARCHE (REVERSE EVENT)
Jef CornelisCornelis prefers to make use of the medium of television to show a work by the Amsterdam artist Pieter Engels in its conceptual form, in stead of supplying a typical purely sterile and pedantic framework. Similar to his other work from the 1960s and 1970s, Engels focuses on tiny, everyday things, creating confusion by questioning expectations and preconditions...
MEDIASTUDIEN (NACH HEINRICH HOFFMANN)
Koen TheysIn 1927 (years before he came to power in Germany), Adolf Hitler posed in a studio for his private photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. The pictures they made were used to study the dramatic effects of certain gestures, and how to use them during Hitler’s public apparitions. Hitler was one of the first (if not the first) politician(s) who introduced the idea of media-training...
A Lecture on Schizophonia, Erik Bünger, 2009 © the artist & producer
A LECTURE ON SCHIZOPHONIA
Erik BüngerRecordings of sound and image are all-pervasive in the modern world, and sometimes seem to have a life of their own. Erik Bünger’s ’lecture’ – a narrative voiced over a series of images, clips and quotations – explores what happens when the recording and the original source become separated or confused...
THE HOUSES THAT ARE LEFT
Shelly Silver"The Houses That Are Left is a story of mortality, friendship, revenge, murder and the supernatural, as two friends come together to try to figure out how to live, while being besieged by malignant messages from the dead...
END CREDITS
Ken KoblandFilmed over a few nights in the late Ron Vawter’s dressing room during the show ‘Roy Cohn/Jack Smith’ at the Kitchen, NYC, in October 1993, this tape is a small but poignant homage to an extraordinary talent....
CHARLES VANDENHOVE: LE GYMNASE SART-TILMAN
Jef CornelisWe get an exterior view of the gymnasium on the Sart-Tilman Campus at the Liege University (the architect was Charles Van Denhove) and interior views of the gymnasium, gymnastics hall, corridors and indoor swimming pool....
