OVERZICHT TITELS
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DEAR ADVISOR
Vincent MeessenMeessen’s work is set in Chandigarh, the paragon of the modernist city planned by Le Corbusier in the 1950ies as a symbol of the new, progressive nation of India who had just emerged from its colonial past...
PULL OVER
Michel FrançoisA person pulling on a sweater. The sweater adopts the contours of the face beneath it without making that face fully recognisable. This gesture describes a spontaneous amalgam of interrelated postures, insights and associations....
LANDSCAPE AND DESIRE
Ken KoblandRecord of a solitary sojourn across America on a Greyhound bus. A mordant, nostalgic photo album of mute streets, empty rooms and serene fields; the landscape remains of a civilisation which has momentarily disappeared....
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 48. ARTIFACT
Steve ReinkeThese images are from a film the CBC made in the early seventies called "The Children of Sri Lanka"....
REAL TO REAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Messieurs DelmotteIn ’Real to real photography’ a young man is shown, among others, blowing a whistle. Furthermore the image of a woman onscreen is half covered, a man is bombarded with fruit, a woman smokes a cigarette without taking it from her mouth and a head disappears behind a mountain of whipped cream...
Eth(n)ique Vietnam, Laurent Van Lancker, 2000 © the artist & producer
ETH(N)ICS VIETNAM
Laurent Van LanckerIn 1997 a young Anthropology and Cinema MA Graduate endeavours on a voyage to North Vietnam with two friends to shoot his first ethnographic documentary film. The enterprise is auto-financed and DV based, Digital Video having only recently been commercially introduced to the market. The initial excitement and spirit of adventure, though, are soon to be cut short by a major obstacle...
THE JOYCEAN SOCIETY
Dora GarcíaA group of people have been reading a book together for thirty years. They have been reading it again and again, with each journey from the first to the last page taking eleven years. Once they reach the last word, a very enigmatic "the," they begin again with the first word, "riverrun." The text appears inexhaustible, its interpretation endless, the inconclusive nature of the reading exciting...
VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): TAPISSERIE
Jacques LennepThe camera shows a fixed shot of a banal wallpaper with a flower-print. Offscreen somebody shouts 'Vive la peinture!'....
THE DEAD WEIGHT OF A QUARREL HANGS
Walid RaadA 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...
ANTHONY CARO, POMPADOUR
Jef CornelisA document on Anthony Caro, generally considered as one of the key figures in European post-war sculptural art. After a period as an assistant to Henry Moore, Caro gave up on figurative sculpture to start making heavy, abstract, spatial steel constructions...
