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Avant-garde citizens: Mpia’s story, 2007, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson © the artists
AVANT-GARDE CITIZENS
Libia Castro - Ólafur Ólafsson’Avant-garde Citizens’ steps into the lives and identities of refugees in the world today, using the Netherlands as a departure point. The project is a series of video-portraits of people who have become enmeshed in the viciously complicated and torturously slow Dutch immigration and asylum system...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 83. LITTLE MONKEYS
Steve ReinkeThose little monkeys raised in isolation with only a little chunk of fur stapled to wire mesh would have been far less maladjusted if it had been revealed to them that they were being watched and photographed....
AILE 4 NEIGE
Jacques Louis NystA science fiction story in which people disappear from the Earth and the machines keep on working. The fictive situations being inspired by objects from the Nysts’ immediate surroundings....
THE COMMUNISTS ARE COMFORTABLE
Ken Kobland... part Bronx reminiscence, part landscape fantasy; part morality play, part melodrama. A film in many parts with monologue segments written by James Strahs for Willem Dafoe, Spalding Gray, Ron Vawter, Peyton Smith and Luche Sacker. (www.kenkoblandfilms.com)...
BESMETTE STAD
Johan GrimonprezBesmette Stad TV broadcast, Belgium, 1993, 18min, restored in 2007 directed by Johan Grimonprez with Paul Garrin, Meg Stuart, Alison Murray & Pascal Baes produced by Ziggurat, Belgian TV BRT / TV1 with the support of Jan van Eyck Academy 01. Video-Guerrilleros fragment from 'Man with a Video Camera' by Paul Garrin, 2min Topic II by Pascal Baes, fragment 1 02...
Eth(n)ique Vietnam, Laurent Van Lancker, 2000 © the artist & producer
ETH(N)ICS VIETNAM
Laurent Van LanckerIn 1997 a young Anthropology and Cinema MA Graduate endeavours on a voyage to North Vietnam with two friends to shoot his first ethnographic documentary film. The enterprise is auto-financed and DV based, Digital Video having only recently been commercially introduced to the market. The initial excitement and spirit of adventure, though, are soon to be cut short by a major obstacle...
REVOLVER
Jacques Louis NystAs in 'La mort d’une poule’, sound plays a key role in 'Revolver’. A real hand confronts a sculpted one. It imitates its gesture, proposes new ones. Then what we have interpreted so far as a human hand suddenly turns into a revolver....
CONCRETE & SAMPLES III: CARRARA
Aglaia KonradConcrete & Samples I, II, III is a series of 16mm films on sculptural architecture. What the buildings and site in all films have in common is the idea of ‘architecture as sculpture’ and a very distinct use of concrete that seem to depart from the free form of the whole in a sculptural manner...
DCA SPIEL
Hänzel & GretzelA scratched karaoke featuring among others a barking Vietnam war soldier, a blind knife magician and hypnotic comments on historical Olympic Games - an early rhythmic work....
THE ROOT PROBLEM OF THE WORLD
Steve ReinkeThis is adapted from a two-channel video installation of the same name I presented at Birch Libralato in conjunction with the Images Festival in Toronto in 2011. The footage is from reel-to-reel video documentation of the lecture Joseph Beuys gave at NSCAD in 1976 on the occassion of his honorary degree...
