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SILVERLEAF
Adam LeechAdam Leech produces videos with a narrative touch. The protagonists of these stories are usually archetypical inhabitants of ‘the American suburbia’ we are familiar with from countless television series. Their preferred pastimes are shopping, parties and interior design - in short, everything that has to do with the aestheticization of the everyday...
HET GOUDEN KALF / LE VEAU D'OR
Jan Vromman“Het Gouden Kalf” (“The Golden Calf”) is the report of a performance held in 2002. During the “Top of Laeken”, an anti-globalist manifestation in Brussels, the Golden Calf - a sculpture on a carrying board in true size - was carried in a procession to the European Parliament. The Golden Calf is, of course, the symbol for the adoration of power and money...
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...
RISIBLE CHICK
Nick de Pencier‘Risible Chick’ is an indie paean to urban frenetism made on no budget and city savvy. Choreographer Leslie Lindsay’s raucous in-our-face dance attack was first performed live at Toronto’s Dances for the Small Stage Rivoli Night Club series where it immediately became a critical and popular sensation...
REAL TO REAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Messieurs DelmotteIn ’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...
CONTAINER 10: EXOTISMEN
Jef CornelisA conversation about the predominantly Western fascination with exotic cultures. According to Herman Pollig, who made a number of exhibitions about exoticism under the header “Exotic worlds, European fantasies”, exoticism gets in the way of an objective understanding of alien cultures...
A CURE FOR BEING ORDINARY
Cooper Battersby - Emily Vey Duke’A Cure for Being Ordinary’ is a short experimental narrative telling the story of Tim Eckman, a young computer programmer who escapes the drudgery of his work place by moving into the rafters above his cubicle. From the new perspective of his, he is able to draw conclusions about the impact of capitalism on human perceptions of time...
SET [ING]
Peter DownsbroughIn Set [ing] the camera is situated in a closed, empty meeting room in an office building in the Paris business centre of La Défense...
The Interpreter, 2009 Maria Iorio & Raphaël Cuomo © the artist(s) & producer(s)
THE INTERPRETER
Raphaël Cuomo - Maria IorioThe Interpreter proposes a perspective on mobility towards Europe as it can be perceived and experienced from the Maghreb. The video evokes the time between a clandestine crossing of the Mediterranean Sea at the end of the 90’s and a recent forced return. It is based on elements from an ongoing field research by geographer Makrem Mandhouj...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 46. SLEEP
Steve ReinkeSometimes it’s hard to figure out what it is we really want....
