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FILE
Kurt D'Haeseleer‘File’ scrutinises the bandwidth between representation and immersion, showing a world of complexity. This work is trying to be a lot at the same time: video clip, essay, action movie, sociological study, documentary, soap and even commercial but above all a hermetic collection of sensations. A dated relation goes off the road and two people lose each other in overdrive....
Gnawa, Olivier Dekegel, 2010 © the artist & producer
GNAWA
Olivier DekegelA medium-length film produced and distributed by the director, a true cinephile, lover and connoisseur of classic and experimental cinema. Filmed on Super 8, Gnawa is an immersive flood, a sensorial trip to the magico-religious rites of the Gnawa in Morocco, made with such virtuosity that it elevates the viewer, cinematographically, into a trance akin to that of the dancers and musicians depicted...
THIS DAY WON'T LAST
Mouaad el SalemA day that could also be a life. A young man who could also be an older woman. A nightmare that could also be a dream. In Tunisia, while it could also be somewhere else: on the border between the necessity and the fear to make a film, the necessity and the fear for the revolution, is This day won’t last a cooperation with a distance...
THE SHANGHAIED TEXT
Ken KoblandIn ‘The Shanghaied Text’ Ken Kobland reflects on our 20th century notion of civilization and progress. These are set against an apparently indifferent nature that continues to be calm and unchanged in the face of the struggle for dominance...
DOCUMENTA 4
Jef CornelisWhen Professor Arnold Bode thought up Documenta 1 in 1955, his first job was putting West-Germany, arisen from the ashes, back on the international map. When Documenta 4 takes place in 1968 the international art world is entangled in an authority crisis as well, as Roger Raveel indicates: ”worn threadbare”...
NAM JUNE PAIK
Stefaan DecostereNam June Paik was the instigator of the Fluxus movement, in Germany in the early sixties. In 1963 Paik first exhibited TV sets of which the screens showed distorted images. The TV screens reigned supreme. Paik moved to New York and was soon proclaimed the "George Washington of the video art"’...
A.M./P.M.
Herman AsselberghsThere is no visible human presence in ’a.m./p.m’. Photos of cosmopolitan city landscapes are systematically scanned along with display views of office blocks, flats, dark corners, illuminated windows and skyscrapers. On the soundtrack one can hear a woman’s voice, talking about herself and the world, about images of today, about a journey...
THE FUCK
Messieurs DelmotteNear a busy road Delmotte hangs a big sign on a statue, stating ‘Allez tous vous faire enculer’ (‘Fuck them all’). This work is part of the series 'Rejected videos'...
THERE ARE NO IMAGES
Miguel Peres dos SantosA proposal on a reflection upon a possible link between image and memory; between image and moment; and between image and death. A father, a son and a dead child engage in a dialogue constructed departing from the a moment. “does an image die?”; “and if an image dies”… “what will happen to memory?”...
