OVERZICHT TITELS

DEUX OISEAUX CHANTENT

Jacques Louis Nyst
Two characters wonder about birdsong. One of them affirms that a page of text lies at the origin. The dialogue that ensues is evocative of a series of images of familiar objects and of the snowed over countryside of Presseux Village. The influence of the winter landscape orients the conversation towards the idea of whiteness and silence. The action slows down...

VOICE-OVER

Roy Villevoye
Set in the Asmat region in the Indonesian part of New Guinea, Voice-Over overlays the construction of a traditional wooden sculpture with a phone call about a sales deal gone wrong. The death of Roy Villevoye’s Papuan friend Omoma is the reason for the creation of the sculpture, a ritual that also functions as a memorial ceremony...

GENT, 10 JUNI 1989, VOOR GERALDINE NEREA (PART OF PAS DE DANSE)

Jan Vromman
In this video Vromman shows us virtuoso how a “plan séquence” is capable of exploring a given spatial arrangement notably an abandoned church in Ghent. It is as though the camera possesses a will of its own, or, more appropriately, as it became itself a dancer within the given space...

THE JACKET

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte takes off his jacket and tosses it into a tree. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

CASSEURS D'IMAGES 1993-2004 (PART 2)

Michel François
- Arpenteur: A caterpillar is crawling over a geographical map, exploring the borders of the surface. - ’Tourner’ (2): A man is carrying a beam on which the camera seems to be attached. The floor and his shoes are squeaking. The camera rotates around and around the man. - ’Pigeons’: A bunch of pigeons are being filmed in close-up while they are trying to eat...

VIETNAM ROMANCE

Eddo Stern
Much like Stern’s ’Sheik Attack’ (2000), ’Vietnam Romance’ (2003) is compiled from the sources available on the computer desktop environment - games, graphics and music...

TOPOLOGIC

Cel Crabeels
Crabeels’s work ‘Topologic’ records the prolonged contortions of a man attempting to put on, and to take off again, a piece of clothing. Here the body is used both as a terrain of experiment, and as a metaphor for artist’s labour of inhabiting space in general...

THE KINGDOM

Pieter Geenen
The Kingdom is a series of nine videos portraying today's North American urban landscape by looking at the large Belgian community living in the Canadian tobacco belt. During 20th century this region was subject to heavy European immigration, attracting many Flemish immigrants in particular who settled as tobacco farmers...

BAD IDEAS FOR PARADISE

Emily Vey Duke - Cooper Battersby
A 10 minute experimental narrative telling the story of Karen Annasdaughter, a young woman raised by a group of radicals in the woods of Nova Scotia. With this project Vey Duke and Battersby aim to clear a psycho-spiritual space for the viewer which was not cleared before. "We want this space to contain empathy (identification) and joy...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 86. SEVENTEEN DESCRIPTIONS

Steve Reinke
The guy in the shorts has never had the area between his testicles and anus licked....