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S*CKMYP [4 SHORT FILMS VERSION]
Kurt D'HaeseleerS*CKMYP drops the spectator in a world continuously bombarded with digital fragmentation bombs. People wander through a kaleidoscopic labyrinth of trembling bodies and mutating buildings until they are swallowed by a yawning void. Lost pixels nestle like parasites under the skin and drag them through an everyday world that looks strange beyond recognition...
THE NOTHING THAT IS…
Ken KoblandTHE NOTHING THAT IS, comes out of the environment of our streets, these days; the 'virtual', 'other reality' which inhabits them. In the midst endless mining and searching for data, for information, for what's hidden (conspiratorially) in the everyday... It's bounded by 2 quotes (always words, I need them, what else can i say). One from a Wallace Steven's poem and the other from Robert Frank...
nocturne (lampedusa - fort europe), 2006, Pieter Geenen © the artist. Courtesy of Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp
NOCTURNE
Pieter GeenenOn the Italian island of Lampedusa, nighttime has gained a tragic connotation over the past several years. This pile of rocks (less than 20 km2) south of Sicily is Europe’s closest point to North Africa. nocturne (lampedusa - fort europa) captures the island’s schizophrenic, tense nocturnal atmosphere. An infrared camera monitors several spots on and around the island...
VIETNAM ROMANCE
Eddo SternMuch like Stern’s ’Sheik Attack’ (2000), ’Vietnam Romance’ (2003) is compiled from the sources available on the computer desktop environment - games, graphics and music...
LOCUSTS
Hänzel & GretzelIn this ‘Akashic Peeper Project’, Lee Ranaldo (a member of the band Sonic Youth) reads from his ‘Road Movie’ poems and shares his vision on reality that is fairly nomadic. Hänzel & Gretzel’s highly idiosyncratic images match perfectly Ranaldo’s poetry. This work juxtaposes an aggressive rawness with an oddly poetic, even metaphysical, sensibility....
RICHARD HAMILTON, 15 MEI – 28 JUNI 1970
Jef CornelisA report on Richard Hamilton’s exhibition at the van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, May 15th-June 28th 1970. Drawings, paintings and photographic collages by Hamilton (Marilyn Monroe, Bing Crosby, Mick Jagger,…) are shown, as well as details of Jan van Eyck’s painting ’The Arnolfini’, a source of inspiration for Hamilton...
ELECTION DEFEAT
Steve ReinkeTakes us back to our awkward high school years in Toledo, Ohio, 1968....
FORMER EAST / FORMER WEST
Shelly Silver"Made up of hundreds of street interviews done in Berlin two years after the Reunification, Former East/Former West is a vital, surprisingly open, and at times disturbing documentary about what it means to be German at this particular moment in history. For forty-five years, residents of this divided city lived radically different lives, both in terms of ideology and everyday experience...
UN ANGE PASSE
Marie André’Un ange passe’ is a vivid observation of the social and sexual economies of prostitution, an indelibly envisioned narrative set in the Veemarkt harbor quarter of Antwerp. Andre tells the story of the prostitute Anita, who displays herself in a "show window" on the square and engages in a self-deceptive love for her abusive pimp...
