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POLYFONISTEN DEEL 2
Stefaan DecosterePolyphonic music developed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the courts and religious centres of Europe, and was a method of composition whereby the various voices were treated as wholly or partly separate from each other. In Polyfonisten, an identical line of thought is expressed in a mirror-like perspective of history as seen through the eyes of today...
HINDU BLUES
Adam LeechHindu Blues brings into view the loss of spiritual control in an absurd way. In the Hindu faith the tilaka – a red dot on the forehead – symbolizes the third eye associated with multiple gods and the idea of meditation and spiritual enlightenment. In the past only gods, priests, ascetics and worshippers wear a tilaka...
WINTER PRAYERS
Jan Dietvorst - Roy VillevoyeIs every collector necessarily a murderer? Jean-Paul de Vries, the film’s protagonist, is quite the opposite of a killer. He may not exactly be the one who wakes the dead - but he does try to show that there are other ways to live and deal with life, rather than ‘protect oneself against death’...
Madame going to a dogshow, Ria Pacquée, 1988. Courtesy the Artist
MADAME GOING TO A DOG SHOW
Ria PacquéeDuring the second half of the eighthies Pacquée created her ’Madame’- works, in which she takes on the character of a lonely middle-aged lady. In this case the camera records Madame’s presence at a dog show. Madame walks around the hall where the event’s taking place. She looks at pictures of different breeds of dogs and takes some brochures...
THE CONTENT OF THE STATE
Grace SchwindtA two screen installation video piece. Screen 1: The Content of the State is Family, but also Law, Health, Religion, Jew, German, Nation, Race, People, Human Kind, Ancestor, Men, We, You (plural), You (singular). A convergence to and distancing from a document (“Explanatory Leaflet for Those Getting Married”, published in Germany in approx...
THE VANITAS RECORD
Koen TheysVanitas is Latin for vanity. A Vanitas painting is a form of a still life consisting of a collection of objects that symbolise the brevity of human life and the transience of earthly pleasures and achievements. Vanitas paintings were most popular in the Netherlands of the sixteenth and seventeenth century...
ARRANGEMENT IN GREY
Emmanuel Van der AuweraThe title Arrangement in Grey is an allusion to the painter James Abbott Whistler, who used it to emphasize the ascendance of abstract over figurative composition...
CONTAINER 08: OVER DON JUAN
Jef CornelisA discussion on the figure and myth of Don Juan, which originates in three different sources: the original version by Tirso de Molina from 1630, the version by Molière from 1665, and the libretto and opera by Mozart and da Ponte from 1787. Even among these versions there are considerable variants regarding the characters, the personalities, intrigues and endings...
EVEN THE PROMPTER DIES
Erik Bünger - Manuel SaizEven The Prompter Dies is an experimental video that investigates the power of speech over images. Multiple voices – all belonging to the two filmmakers – wrestle for mastery over the footage, from various positions inside and outside the frame...
