OVERZICHT TITELS

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 67. ASSPLAY

Steve Reinke
Recently my psychiatrist dismantled his practice in favour of becoming a baker. I hoped to get the brown leather couch. Instead he gave me the rough notes for a paper he’d been thinking of working on “Assplay: Anal Eroticism as Transformative Agent in Disney’s Pinocchio” in hope I would complete it....

DAS HAUS

Aglaia Konrad
Das Haus is a new work that deepens the exploration of sculptural architecture that Aglaia Konrad conducted with the series of 16mm films Concrete and Samples...

TECHNOCALYPS

Frank Theys
Technocalyps is a 3 part documentary about ‘transhumanism’, an ideology assuming that we approach an era where humans, as we know them, are no longer the driving force of civilization. All technological developments seem to converge to one main goal: to overcome humanity, to try and create something transhuman...

OUTPLACEMENT 02 (TRAVEL)

Cel Crabeels
In ‘Détachement’ and ‘Outplacement’ Crabeels researches the possibilities and limitations of mapping something by means of video. In ‘Preview’ he looks at the way video can be used to show the spectator different ‘worlds’: past/ present, trauma/ reality...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 62. BLACK HEART

Steve Reinke
These computer images are a model of how different tattoos might look on me....

THE ROAD BACK

Maurits Wouters
The Road Back is a documentary journey to a time and place that have long been considered lost. The main character tries to find a lost village near a former international railway line where his recently deceased mother spent her youth. The past merges with the present as the filmmaker mixes archival films and close-ups of nature with old photographs...

ANOTHER DAY IN TREATY TOWN

Koen Theys
Another Day in Treaty Town is a contemporary European western. A saloon, a covered wagon, a campfire, a couple turkeys and a wooden grandstand appear in a sun-drenched Flemish landscape. The grandstand is filled with "cowboys and indians". Dignitaries from both sides are smoking the peace pipe. They are flanked by men cleaning their guns or sharpening their knifes...

THRU

Peter Downsbrough
THRU is a dialectic investigation of two urban locations, one inside, the other outside. The video was conceived as a double projection, partly taking the designated space – the exhibition space at Argos – as its subject. The image alternates in a symmetrical rhythm between long, inert and twilit panoramas of the exhibition space and short, static shots of a nearby, busy street...

LILI

An van. Dienderen
In a TV studio a girl named Lili (played by Belgian actress Maaike Neuville) is asked to serve as a so-called China Girl. China Girls, used in cinema history since the 1920’s, are women with Caucasian skin who are filmed alongside a colour-chart in order to adjust the colours of the film. They have no dialogues to memorize or characters to impersonate...

SYLVIA KRISTEL - PARIS

Manon de Boer
Between November 2000 and June 2002 Manon de Boer recorded the stories and memories of the actress Sylvia Kristel, best known for her role in the 1970’s erotic cult classic ‘Emmanuelle’...