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CASSEURS DE CAILLOUX
Michel FrançoisA video made in Brazil shows three men trying to split a rock with a wedge and two sledgehammers. What is involved is not just the desire to live a physical relationship with things, but to find forms to make that relationship visible....
MYODESOPSIES (PROBABLE SONG)
Edith DekyndtMyodesopsia is a term derived from Greek (muiôdès,opsis) and refers to the “spots” we see when we close our eyes or when we poke into them for some time, as this stimulates their appearance. One of the possible explanations for the observation of these small dots is that they have to do with remnants of tissue that belong to an embryonic state of the body...
KORAAL
Lili DujourieKoraal (Coral, 1978) is constructed around the close-up image of fingers slowly peeling an orange, separating the segments of flesh and throwing the fruit’s sections, one by one, off-camera. This concrete action that doesn't represent anything but itself emits a heightened sensuality...
A L'OMBRE DE L'HYPERBOLOÏDE
Lucile DesamoryIn several respects the films of Lucile Desamory savour of the work by Stan Vanderbeek, who extracted a style of his very own from an amalgam of film, drawings and stopaction animation – and it’s no coincidence that this style became a source of inspiration for the absurd animations by Terry Gilliam...
PIETER ENGELS, PARAMARCHE (REVERSE EVENT)
Jef CornelisCornelis prefers to make use of the medium of television to show a work by the Amsterdam artist Pieter Engels in its conceptual form, in stead of supplying a typical purely sterile and pedantic framework. Similar to his other work from the 1960s and 1970s, Engels focuses on tiny, everyday things, creating confusion by questioning expectations and preconditions...
... BECAUSE SUPERGLUE IS FOREVER!!!
Johan Grimonprez“Yesterday Salam Khamas, at the age of 93, married Mrs.Um Ahmed, at the tender age of 105, in the town of Basra, Iraq. It was sunny. The newly weds were both found dead in their honeymoon bed this morning. Mrs.Um Ahmed was still wearing her wedding dress...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 58. MINNESOTA INVENTORY
Steve ReinkeI like mechanics magazines. I have a good appetite. I awake fresh and rested most mornings. There seems to be a lump in my throat much of the time. I enjoy detective or mystery stories....
OJO GUAREÑA
Edurne RubioIn the film OJO GUAREÑA we join a group of speleologists that enter the gigantic cave of the same name in Burgos, Spain. We barely notice the prehistoric traces and the contours of the spaces, but we can hear all the better: drops of water that, for ages, have been recreating the shape of the cave and continue to do so to date, as well as echoes of human footsteps...
Take into the air my quiet breath, 2007, Julia Meltzer & David Thorne © the artists
TAKE INTO THE AIR MY QUIET BREATH
Julia Meltzer - David ThorneIn 1966, the Syrian government’s Ministry of Endowments solicited plans for a building to replace a 14th-century Mamluk mosque in Martyr’s Square in the centre of Damascus. A young architect proposed a design for a 5-star hotel and new mosque. In 1971, his plans were scrapped. In 1982, building started on a new structure...
