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HISTOIRE D'UN CORPS

Jacques Lennep
A short conceptual work by this Belgian pioneering video artist about corporality and memory. The artist is in a room that resembles the lavatory of a school of gym. He takes off his suit and a female voice-over starts to sum up some of his physical problems and ailments: scars on the knee, a curvature of the spine due to scoliosis, angiomas...

KAIROS

Alexis Destoop
Kairos (καιρός) is an ancient Greek word meaning the “right or opportune moment”. The ancient Greeks had two words for time, chronos and kairos. While the former refers to chronological time, the latter signifies “a time in between,” a break in the continuity of time, a moment in which something special happens...

GALLIC PORK-BUTCHERY

Messieurs Delmotte
Delmotte wears a viking helmet covered with pork. The slices of meat also cover his face. Slowly he starts pulling the slices off his neck, face and helmet, putting them in his mouth. Then he drops them from his mouth. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...

IDÉALE AUDIENCE : UN PAYSAGE TÉLÉVISUEL EN FRANCE

Joëlle de La Casinière
Idéale audience is a television ‘commedia dell’Arte’, written in TV. The composition of the work presents variations on three themes: the self-promotion of TV channels, the ideal audience filmed in a listening attitude, and ecstatic female announcers. All these stanzas are interspersed with McLuhanesque questions about the television medium, posed by cartoon characters...

PLUS KERN (GENT)

Jef Cornelis

A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF CLARITY

Emmanuel Van der Auwera
Teenagers are watching a video on internet while videotaping their own reactions. Fragments after fragments, this loose community express their comments and witness a deep trouble in an ever more invading off-camera space. We are caught between two images: the missing one being watched and the image of the spectator. This ultra thin angle opens a breach on the multiple dimensions of dismay...

THE ROAD BACK

Maurits Wouters
The Road Back is a documentary journey to a time and place that have long been considered lost. The main character tries to find a lost village near a former international railway line where his recently deceased mother spent her youth. The past merges with the present as the filmmaker mixes archival films and close-ups of nature with old photographs...

C'EST MOY QUE JE PEINS, WIE ALLEEN STAAT HEEFT RECHT VAN SPREKEN

Jef Cornelis
“C’est moy que je peins” wrote Montaigne to make it clear to the reader that he wrote his Essays in order to be seen in his “simple, natural, everyday fashion, without striving or artifice.” Writing in this instance turns out to be a basic tool for introspection and an attempt to make manifest the writer’s subjectivity...

THE MANY THINGS SHOW

Koen Theys
This video is based on two sources: a late 60s theoretical text, written by conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth — and a seemingly endless stream of found internet images, invariably picturing one or more persons in the proximity of some loved object: holding it; standing close to it; locking at it...

BULLY BEEF

Wendy Morris
Bully Beef explores Belgian selective amnesia and its lack of empathy. The statue of General Jules Jacques, World War I hero and colonial agent in Leopold II’s Congo, is the film’s central motif. Standing in the market of Diksmuide, the statue operates as the connection between two imperialistic events: World War I and the colonisation of Congo...