OVERZICHT TITELS
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THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS
Michel CouturierThe shipping lane between Calais and the cliffs of Dover is the busiest in the world. This stretch of water is also the favoured route used by illegal immigrants in their attempt to reach the United Kingdom from Calais. The west-east axis of global trade is perpendicular to the south-north axis of migration triggered by war and poverty...
DELETE FOREVER
Félix CôteEvery day, thousands of people choose to remove their content from social media. YouTube, in particular, is home to a large number of ephemeral amateur videos in which people express themselves about their daily lives. Although soon deleted, these clips do present a sincere landscape of our connected societies. Delete Forever proposes a ritualistic way of safeguarding these personal videos...
STAGING SILENCE (3)
Hans Op de BeeckStaging Silence (3) is the third and final installment in a series of autonomous art films, all realised according to the same principles. In the three films, two pairs of anonymous hands construct and deconstruct fictional interiors and landscapes on a mini film set of just three square meters in size...
COLOURING IN
Rebecca Jane ArthurColouring in is composed of a series of Super 8 film portraits of female friends of the artist who each share reflections with her on their philosophies of life, how they connect to the world and what nurtures or grounds them. Filmed in their domestic spaces, the film offers intimate glimpses into their worlds...
RISING FALL
Lukas MarxtRising Fall is a three-part study on nature as its spectacle, on what Spinoza termed natura naturans, or “nature naturing.” Something happens without the need of a guiding agent. Filmic images are content to quietly watch and listen and wait. And they expect the same of how they are observed. In other words an immanence of nature confiding a secret...
S.O.L.
Edith DekyndtA violet shirt is hanged/ draped over a swing in the playground. While the light and weather conditions are changing – wind is coming up – the swing and the shirt start moving, like they have a live of their own. As in much of her work, Dekyndt investigates in this piece a method of perception for physical phenomena on the verge of the invisible with a touching and surprising result....
THE LAST SUPER 8 FILM
Dan Oki“Last Super 8 film” consists of films shot in this format in the period of some thirty years. Some of the works were immediately conceived as films, while most of them belonged to private recordings...
GRAND PALAIS DEUXMILLEDIX
Luc GobynGrand Palais deuxmilledix is an experimental film exploring the relationship between architecture and movement. The audiovisual production takes the viewer into the contours of the metal structure of the Grand Palais, Paris. The construction becomes the frame of the picture. Into the image appear silhouettes of fencers...
VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): LA POIGNÉE DE PORTE
Jacques LennepA door-handle is filmed with a steady camera. Within a few seconds, it becomes clear that the image is a trompe-l'oeuil in the surrealist Belgian tradition....
THE FUCK
Messieurs DelmotteNear a busy road Delmotte hangs a big sign on a statue, stating ‘Allez tous vous faire enculer’ (‘Fuck them all’). This work is part of the series 'Rejected videos'...
