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Y,X
Shelbatra JashariShelbatra Jashari’s films are grounded in experimental films of the 1960s and ’70s, fused with contemporary concerns, both personal and social. Jashari creates fragmented, grainy, dreamy visual sequences that unfold randomly. ‘Y,X’ is a personal travelogue which leads through the Balkans to northern France...
MOUVEMENT ACADÉMIQUE
Koen TheysThe images used in this work are scanned from a book called ‘Nues pour artistes’ (‘Nudes for artists’). Using morph-effects and digital multiplication of the image, the figures are moving in a small ‘art-history ballet’. At certain moments they express a kind of classical beauty, but at other moments they become Francis Baconlike monsters....
LA MORT D'UNE POULE
Jacques Louis NystRecorded in the Nysts’ living-room during a rainy day, this video marks the introduction of colour (in this case green) in the previously black and white universe of the Nysts’ videos. 'La mort d’une poule' shows a top hat held in the air thanks to the help of a stick...
PEINTURE À L'HUILE N°3
Thomas BernardetThe video camera records the motor of a running car filmed in close-up for 45mn....
AMONG THE PALMS THE BOMB OR: LOOKING FOR REFLECTIONS IN THE TOXIC FIELD OF PLENTY
Vanja Smiljanic - Lukas Marxt“Among the palms, The Bomb” is a cinematic exploration that rounds up a seven-year-long research of the Salton Sea – the largest lake in California that is on the verge of ecological collapse, and the resilient community struggling to survive within this dystopian reality...
EPILOGUE
Michel Lorand’Epilogue’ begins with the technical introduction, the classic ‘countdown’ seen at the start of movies. The title then appears, followed by a white film, devoid of image. It is a blank film, but not clean. A woman’s voice reads out a claustrophobic text about memory and remembering...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 22. IN THE REALM OF PERPETUAL EMBARRASSMENT
Steve ReinkeI am a machine which produces sentences. A fish is a machine that produces other fishes, usually of the same species....
THE DOUBLE
Roy Villevoye - Jan DietvorstAn exacting sculpture of a white, middle-aged male is hammered out. Voiceovers breathe life into the man whilst his appearance is accurately reconstructed. The empty shell becomes a personality thanks to the voices from the Netherlands and Papua, but who is this man really? The impression created and substantiated is simultaneously mysterious and revealing....
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 58. MINNESOTA INVENTORY
Steve ReinkeI like mechanics magazines. I have a good appetite. I awake fresh and rested most mornings. There seems to be a lump in my throat much of the time. I enjoy detective or mystery stories....
L'AUTEUR
Michel LorandThe Medea installation is made up of a large, square table with four video monitors. A single actor or actress is seen on three of the four monitors, from the waist up and frontal. The fourth monitor shows only text. The starting point is a short prose piece written by Lorand about a young woman intending to kill her two children after the end of her relationship with their father...
