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Silent Elections, 2009 Sarah Vanagt © the artist(s) & producer(s)
SILENT ELECTIONS
Sarah VanagtThe power goes off and the screen goes black: one of those innumerable moments of darkness when the buried memories from decades of conflict suddenly resurface. In the streets of Goma, children play at being news correspondents: Congo is preparing for its first democratic elections since 1960...
THE MYSELF SCHEMA
Messieurs DelmotteA well dressed man is standing in front of the camera. All seems normal, but suddendly a pair of legs is appearing on both sides of his body... This work is part of the series UNDO / REDO...
(SELF)TRACKING SHOT
Krassimir TerzievIn motion picture terminology, a tracking shot (also known as a dolly shot) is a shot in which the camera is mounted on a camera dolly, a wheeled platform that is pushed on rails in order to realise the movement of the viewpoint in the shot. Usualy that movement is centered on a present subject that is part of the narrative...
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...
URINAL AND BREAD
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte puts slices of bread in the drains of a public toilet near a church and films the people leaving the toilet. Afterwards he picks the slices up and takes them home. Delmotte makes them into a ball and squeezes the ball empty in his mouth. This work is part of the series 'Rejected videos'...
THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US
Jan Locus'The Distance Between Us' takes its starting point in some audio cassettes artist and photographer Jan Locus received from a Moroccan family in Molenbeek a few years ago. Probably going back to the early 1980s, the cassettes contain an oral correspondence between families in Brussels and Morocco. These anonymous audio letters bear witness to the pain of those who stayed at home...
SAINTS’GAME
Amélie Derlon CordinaThere are periods of strong awareness of the sacred, and periods of desacralization. The film begins with an image, fed by the artist's own obsession with iconic representations, especially those of Christian saints...
LE CERCLE DES NOYÉS
Pierre-Yves VandeweerdLe cercle des noyés (Drowned by Oblivion) is the most documentary essay by Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd (1969). The film looks back on 1987 and the imprisonment of a number of Mauritanian political activists in an abandoned colonial fort at Oualata. Political authorities described them as subversives, so they were picked up, taken away and handled as such...
ELECTION DEFEAT
Steve ReinkeTakes us back to our awkward high school years in Toledo, Ohio, 1968....
