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RED TAPE - ORBIS TERRARUM
Cel CrabeelsRed tape stuck in straight lines on the floor, ceiling and walls creates an hermetically closed route through them. Two camera movements follow this line, one s an intact circuit and the other as its dismantling. This marking with tape can be seen as the equatorial contraction of an inner space....
THE SOCIALIST
Hubert MarécailleRepressed homosexual, unable to have children much to the regret of his wife who disapproves of sperm donation, a corporate CEO, disdainful of outsiders, finally reveals his inclinations by going on strike alone, to the surprise of a group of bystanders present at the end of their « Alcoholics Anonymous » meeting – with an unemployed man tired of looking for a job and an office w...
COME IN
Cel CrabeelsThis tape is part of an installation with the same name. It consists of a one-hour recording of a door. The image on show is mainly static. It comes to life at random moments, when voices and footsteps can be heard. There is a knocking at the door, sometimes violent. Someone is fiddling the handle. Footsteps are running away...
THE PERFECT SQUARE
Gernot WielandGernot Wieland (born 1968 in Horn, Austria) worked for twelve years with an animal trainer who taught birds to fly in circles or squares. The title itself invokes the intellectual purity of geometric forms, considered superior by analytical philosophy to describe the laws of nature...
CONTAINER 10: EXOTISMEN
Jef CornelisA conversation about the predominantly Western fascination with exotic cultures. According to Herman Pollig, who made a number of exhibitions about exoticism under the header “Exotic worlds, European fantasies”, exoticism gets in the way of an objective understanding of alien cultures...
PIEDS À L'ENVERS
Michel FrançoisIn Pieds à l'Envers, the camera is turned upside down and rotates around and around the artist's feet. The sound of the footsteps of the artist gives a sort of understanding of his action, but the focus is on his feet while the background keeps on moving in a continuous circle. Together with the reverse point of view, the video brings to lose the viewer's balance in a spiral shaking image....
_IMOVIE[1]_: THE AGONY OF SILENCE
Els OpsomerEls Opsomer created this video using the amateur software ‘iMovie’ from Apple’s ‘iLife Suite’. It is a lyrical video letter to her friends, an introspective account of a short visit to Palestine. Pictures which were taken there are widely and deeply explored and edited, with the content of the letter as subtitles...
LE CYGNE ET SON IMAGE
Jacques Louis NystThe title in 'Le cygne et son image’ soon becomes the white canvas on which Nyst has drawn what appears at first as a tail or a path. The screen is horizontally divided in two, the lower part occupied by the canvas and the upper by Nyst’s naked body. When the swan the title refers to appears, it may seem that it is its own image that it contemplates on the white surface...
ONLY A FREE INDIVIDUAL CAN CREATE A FREE SOCIETY
Grace SchwindtOnly a Free Individual Can Create a Free Society revisits discussions that Schwindt witnessed during her childhood, surrounded by radical leftwing individuals in Frankfurt, Germany...
