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THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US

Jan Locus
'The Distance Between Us' takes its starting point in some audio cassettes artist and photographer Jan Locus received from a Moroccan family in Molenbeek a few years ago. Probably going back to the early 1980s, the cassettes contain an oral correspondence between families in Brussels and Morocco. These anonymous audio letters bear witness to the pain of those who stayed at home...

ALL TOGETHER NOW...

Hans Op de Beeck
‘All Together Now...’ is a tragicomic portrait of three groups of people attending different social gatherings. The camera pans slowly along the three table settings, each depicting a separate event. The first group, comprised of people in their late seventies, is gathered after a funeral, at a table set with coffee and cakes...

THE NEED TO TAKE BACK WHAT YOU'VE JUST GIVEN (PIGEONS 1)

Messieurs Delmotte
In a public place, Messieurs Delmotte lures pigeons with breadcrumbs. All of a sudden, like a madman he attacks the flock and reappropriates the food. This work is part of the series What's Done, Evil's Done / Ce Qui est Fait, le Mal est Fait...
Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist

SILENT LETTER 20012009

Mira Sanders
The third 'Silent Letter' was written on January 19th, 2009. The inter- and subtitles refer to the act of drawing. A short way into the video, we see images of radio-commanded model airplanes. A fourth theme is made explicit here: the (clear) line. Throughout the letter, the line is connected with the theme of the border, to be defended by ''guards''....

NUDE DESCENDING A STAIRCASE

Eitan Efrat - Sirah Foighel Brutmann
The first part of Nude Descending a Staircase is a composition of clips found online that were made by visitors—pilgrims—to the remote memorial site of Walter Benjamin in Portbou, Spain. Each of these individual registrations is anchored in the specificity of the location...
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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 30. LONG TRAIN RIDE

Steve Reinke
I might be ugly, but soon I’ll be clean....
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TOURNOIEMENT 2

Michel François
A man is carrying a beam on which the camera seems to be attached. The floor and his shoes are squeaking. The camera rotates around and around the man....

ONLY A FREE INDIVIDUAL CAN CREATE A FREE SOCIETY

Grace Schwindt
Only a Free Individual Can Create a Free Society revisits discussions that Schwindt witnessed during her childhood, surrounded by radical leftwing individuals in Frankfurt, Germany...

DANIEL BUREN

Jef Cornelis
Georges Adé (1936-1992) interviews the French artist Daniel Buren (°1938) at the occasion of his solo exhibition – simply entitled Buren (11 May - 5 June, 1971) – in front of the Wide White Space Gallery in Antwerp. As in his previous show with the same title (17 January - 6 February, 1969), Buren applied his renowned motif, namely the alternation of white and coloured 8...

VAN BASSENGWERKER TOT HAVENARBEIDER (ANTWERPEN)

Jef Cornelis
In 1965 more than 13,000 labourers set to work every day in the port of Antwerp and even then, every day there was a shortage of workers. “The Antwerp docker is the quickest in the world,” we hear in this creative documentary, “though they never had any specific training for their job—except for the markers...