OVERZICHT TITELS

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 HUNDRED VIDEOS 26. WISH

Steve Reinke
It has always been my wish to have been a dermatologist in Philadelphia during the Great Depression....

THE MELANCHOLIC

Hubert Marécaille
Despite his existential difficulties, not knowing what to say to his colleagues during the companyʼs evenings out and spending his leisure time doing crosswords, an office worker tries to convince himself of the success of his life : to have a wife, a house and a job, his dream finally realized, just annoyed by the sleeping pills his doctor prescribes for him to sleep at night and rest – his...

AND TO

Peter Downsbrough
We don't know where we are. We're in a car, looking at other cars, roads, structures, tunnels – wasteland. Position? The Global Positioning System informs us, with its horde of satellites, orbiting Earth. Guiding us with its synthesised voice, transporting us, 'translating' us. Telling us what to do...

WAR IS OVER

Roy Villevoye - Jan Dietvorst
In making contact with this major historical event, the sight of someone who has experienced battle has to be the ultimate outcome. Likewise a film about a cemetery can’t therefore do without the sight of someone dead. The search for unknown soldiers in the battlefield often is undertaken with opposing motivations...

DREAMACHINE

Edith Dekyndt
Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville conceived the Dreamachine at the beginning of the 60’s. It is the first object in history conceived to be viewed with closed eyes. The Dreamachine makes it possible to go down in Alpha brain waves, while remaining awake...

PICASSO IN PARIJS (HEROPENING GRAND PALAIS)

Jef Cornelis
Original broadcast date: 22/11/1966 Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Ludo Bekkers introducing the report on three exhibitions by Picasso opening at the Grand Palais, Petit Palais and Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. 01’20" Photographs of Pablo Picasso working in his villa at Mougins. 01’50" Museum staff unwrapping sculptures...

BETWEEN FLASHBACK AND DÉJÀ-VU II

Krassimir Terziev
Two cameras are watching each other. One of them - fixed on a tripod overseeing a wide panoramic view of Sofia from high viewpoint, the other one - mounted on a drone seeking the location of the first one in a close-up on the facade of a building....

THE DEAD WEIGHT OF A QUARREL HANGS

Walid Raad
A videotape in three parts exploring the possibilities and limits of writing and imaging a history of the Lebanese civil wars (1975-1991). Setting up the viewer Ra’ad constructs a tape fictionally based on facts, but not necessarily his, they are hysterical symptoms of sorts that present imaginary events constructed out of innocent and everyday material...

IJSBREKER 18: KUNST AAN DE KUST

Jef Cornelis - Mark De Geest - Anton Stevens - Jackie Claeys
In this episode of ‘Ijsbreker’ there is a focus on the Belgian coast cities of Knokke and Ostend, who also have a history as major art cities. The Casino in Knokke was considered one of the main promoters of art during 1950-1970, mostly because of Gustave Nellens, who made sure the casino housed work by, among others, Margritte...