OVERZICHT TITELS

THIS, OF COURSE, IS A WORK OF THE IMAGINATION

Wendy Morris
In 1917 the Steamship Mendi sailed towards the English Channel and France. On board was a battalion of South African labour troops. In the early morning, in fog, the ship was rammed by another boat and sinks within twenty minutes. 600 men drowned. A legend evolved around the last moments of the men and the manner in which they faced their death...

INTERFÉRENCES ET VARIATIONS

Marie José Burki
For this video, I had quite a simple idea: to confront seeing and listening, audio and video, image and voice. First I wrote two fragments. In the final edit, one of them opens the video and the other one closes it. Then I collected fragments of texts, notes and quotations, between which I established a dialogue...

SUITE

Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel Bonnemaison
Although filmed and conceived during the same stay in Lima (1975) as ‘Rose de Lima’, ‘Suite’ is a completely different aesthetic proposal. A portrait of Lima’s street mechanics, the poorness and roughness of its black and white image, accentuated by Jacques Lederlin’s music – a soundtrack that was added in 2007 – almost carries a neo-realistic touch...

LE VOYAGE DE CHRISTOPHE COLOMB

Jacques Louis Nyst
This short video is one of Jacques-Louis Nyst’s earlier experiences with the medium...

CZECHMATE

Hänzel & Gretzel
An Akasic Peeper project dedicated to the New York poet-mythographer, phantasmagorical filmmaker and pioneer editor Ira Cohen (also known as the Majoon Traveller). A short poem written and read in Prague during the ‘Sub Rosa Curfew tour under the full moon’, also featuring the Golem’s shadow and Jan Saudek’s baroque bordello...

APHASIA 3RD CHAPTER

Jelena Jureša
The starting point of Jelena Jureša’s interest in the evolution of a narrative constituting the final episode of Aphasia is a single photograph, which is never shown in the work, but its presence is almost tangible, heavy, almost to the point of materialising before our eyes. We identify it in speech, we identify it in motion. It is heard, but not directly seen...

HOMMAGE À ... I

Lili Dujourie
The five videos of Hommage à … deal with the same theme as repetition-in-difference, as a continual tracing and retracing, of the figure fold and unfold in the visual field. Hommage à ... I sets the scene. A stationary camera focuses on a divan bed in a minimally interior. The bed occupies the upper half of the screen, a length of floor, the lower...

MAX BILL

Jef Cornelis
Max Bill, an artist who worked with plastics and member of the Swiss ’Zurich Concrete’ group, spent many years investigating mathematical abstractions – and sculpting, in his way, another life. "Is it necessary to say that a mathematical approach to art has nothing to do with any ingenious system of calculation based on ready-made formulas?" he wrote in 1949...

J.P.

Steve Reinke
A remix of the 20 mn ‘Tuesday and I’ by young Canadian artist Jean-Paul Kelly. Reinke leaves the 20 mn one-take monologue intact, speeding up and slowing down the tape (mostly speeding up) to extract empathy for the subject and squeeze sounds out of his body....

PLACES (GARDENING (2))

Hans Op de Beeck
‘Places (Gardening 2)’ is a short animated film without an explicit narrative structure, based on a series of pencil drawings made by the artist during his stay at P.S.1 in New York in 2002-2003. The animated film itself was made in 2004. The film does not tell a story, but presents the viewer with a sequence of constantly transforming imaginary places...