OVERZICHT TITELS

SUICIDE

Shelly Silver
"suicide is a feature-length fiction of a woman’s voyage through the malls, airports and train stations of Asia, Europe and Central America, chronicling her fiercely hopeful and desperate search for a reason to continue living...

LE CLOU

Messieurs Delmotte
Always ironic towards the art world, Messieurs Delmotte explains how his piece has been taken off an exhibition in favor of another artist. All what’s left is the nail : le clou....

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 91. FALLING

Steve Reinke
"The Hundred Videos" are almost over and it’s time to find a job so I thought I’d like to be a Hollywood scriptwriter....

WE

Shelly Silver
"Even as the text instructs us otherwise, it is impossible not to read We’s two images - that is, to respond to their symbolic quality, their suggestiveness. In a stream of associations, the rhythmic flow of people on the left becomes an ejaculation while the rhythmic hand on the right marks detachment, self-centeredness...

PROOF OF LIFE

Herman Asselberghs
The interior of an open, empty space: the frontier between ’inside’ and ’out side’ is slight. The only sign of human presence is to be found as a voice-over: a male voice recalling horrifying TV-images, a popular disaster film, a long-term imprisonment. The title alludes to the diplomatic negotiating jargon used during the video recording of a live hostage...

ZIMMER, GESPRÄCHE

Dora García
A Leipzig apartment is the chosen setting for an encounter between a Stasi officer and a civilian informant in ‘Zimmer Gespräche’ (‘Room, Conversations’). Until 1989, the Stasi was the all-powerful East-German police. However, neither the Stasi nor the city of Leipzig are ever specifically mentioned...

A BOY NEEDS A FRIEND

Steve Reinke
Steve Reinke ostensibly turns to the subjects of friendship and intimacy in "A Boy Needs A Friend", in particular investigating the notion of queer Nietzschean friendship...

INKTPOT

Luc Deleu - Filip Francis - De nieuwe Coloristen
In the dunes of the Belgian seaside town of Koksijde a bunker from World War II is with great deal of sense for detail transformed into a giant inkpot. This early video work is a collaboration between the utopian architect Luc Deleu, painter Filip Francis and the group ‘de nieuwe coloristen’ (translated as ‘the new colorists’)...

THE FUCK

Messieurs Delmotte
Near 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'...

CONTAINER 07: OVER THEATRALITEIT

Jef Cornelis
A discussion about theatricality, starting from three concepts: the dramatic, the theatrical and the spectacular...