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MY RECTUM IS NOT A GRAVE (NOTES TO A FILM INDUSTRY IN CRISIS)
Steve ReinkeUsing footage shot in 1938 and 1939 by Ivan Besse, who owned a movie theatre in Britton, South Dakota and used local portraits in a kind of local news-reel, Reinke builds a strange reverie, sometimes speaking as Besse, sometimes as St. Paul, with reference to Frank O’Hara, Odetta and Dusty Springfield....
LOST NATION, JANUARY 1999
Johan GrimonprezIn January 1999, at the height of the Lewinsky-Clinton affair, Herman Asselberghs and Dieter Lesage asked me if’d be in for a trip to Lost Nation. They explained this was part of a project called LOST NATION they were setting up in Brussels: a place slash library slash installation about vanished nations such as Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, East and West Germany, USSR, and Zaire...
INVITATION TO THE VOYAGE / L'INVITATION AU VOYAGE
Meggy RustamovaMeggy Rustamova’s film Invitation to the voyage / L’invitation au voyage (2014), which derives its title from a poem by Baudelaire, is a suggestive examination of the potential of photography to tell stories (or history) and to let fact and fiction move closer together until the fuzziness of the pixels creating each photo has also taken hold of the narrative...
THE PERFECT WAVE
Nicolas ProvostThe Perfect Wave is a fascinating looped video of a surfer who keeps going and going on what indeed looks like a perfect wave. It’s a metaphor for what the artist calls the human desire for an endless orgasm....
KORAAL
Lili DujourieKoraal (Coral, 1978) is constructed around the close-up image of fingers slowly peeling an orange, separating the segments of flesh and throwing the fruit’s sections, one by one, off-camera. This concrete action that doesn't represent anything but itself emits a heightened sensuality...
MOUTH AND RED CHICKENS
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte tosses around chestnut chickens with his mouth. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE I
Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel BonnemaisonSome twenty video artists from the French school (among others Robert Cahen, Didier Bay, J.C. Bouvet, Yves le Marrec) are briefly portrayed in turns; they produce slogan-like comments on the medium of video art....
LIED VAN MIJN LAND - DEEL 1: DAS RHEINGOLD
Frank Theys - Koen TheysThis is the first part of the diptych Lied van mijn Land (’Song of my Soil’), based on Richard Wagner’s operas ’Der Ring der Nibelungen’ and ’Parcifal’. In ’Der Ring der Nibelungen’, an interpretation of a germanic mythological epic, the composer associates power with the possession of gold...
EEN EEUW ARCHITECTUUR IN BELGIË 1875-1975
Jef CornelisA historical outline of 100 years of architecture in Belgium, with a focus on some of the major moments in the history of building. They are situated within their social context, and as a result this document is as much about ‘living in’ as it is about ‘building’...
