OVERZICHT TITELS

YVES SOMVILLE DANS LE RÔLE DE JESUS-CHRIST

Jacques Lennep
Video, apart from photography and holography, was but one of the media Lennep made use of during the 1970s, as he was adding on to his ‘museum of men’. His human models were derived from all layers of the populations, but they shared a common obsession for collecting things or, at the very least, an unusual passion...

UNE TENTATIVE DE DÉFINIR LA NOTION DE TRANSITION

Mira Sanders
An attempt at thinking the exhibition space in earlier and contemporary times. A drawing and thinking that are superimposing themselves and that blur the view of the spectator. We travel in the movie through different space and time transitions. We realise that the act of listing does not define transition(s), it is the act of moving that does....

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...

1. L’INFIRMIÈRE CANNIBALE

Lucile Desamory
A nurse is stealing corpses in order to eat up their brain. The hospital's staff eventually finds out about it. The cannibal nurse is brutally killed and buried in the garden…...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 20. DEAF

Steve Reinke
My father exists in a large room where he lectures to an audience which is mesmerized despite the fact that they are deaf and, moreover, cannot even lip-read as they speak a wholly other language....

BUILDING STORIES #001 (THAT DISTANT PIECE OF MINE)

Els Opsomer
Building Stories # 001 [That Distant Piece Of Mine] is a 16mm film recorded in Senegal; reportedly the most accessible West African country, a tourist destination with a renowned hospitality. Far from the "clichés" shows this film a poetic stroll through a topical Senegal...

Extensions, Hans Op de Beeck, 2009. Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano – Beijing – Le Moulin; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; Galerie Ron Mandos, Rotterdam – Amsterdam

EXTENSIONS

Hans Op de Beeck
In terms of content, the animated film ‘Extensions’ deals with cultural and subcultural rituals, science and technology as extensions of the human body, and as the physical manifestation of an unfailing belief in progress, which is both redemptive and ethically problematic. The artist defines the extension of the body in very broad terms...

1937 [FIRST CHAPTER OF INSTALLATION, FRENCH VERSION]

Nora Martirosyan
"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...

COMMUNICATION

Hans Op de Beeck
Within an abandoned post office painted white, a life sized projection shows a man at one of the counters stamping a huge pile of papers and envelopes, avoiding all communication. The work also exists as a smaller video sculpture. (Source: www.hansopdebeeck.com)...

OCCUPIED

Peter Downsbrough
The film is shot entirely within the site of the Cité Administrative in Brussels. In an interview during the early stages of this project, Peter Downsbrough said : " I use film to introduce time within my observation. Its very unfolding makes film the ideal means to do this"...