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URINAL AND BREAD
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte puts slices of bread in the drains of a public toilet near a church and films the people leaving the toilet. Afterwards he picks the slices up and takes them home. Delmotte makes them into a ball and squeezes the ball empty in his mouth. This work is part of the series 'Rejected videos'...
LINGUA IGNOTA
Edith DekyndtHildegard von Bingen lived during the 12th Century. She was a Benedictine and a precursor, a poet and a doctor, who invented a language that she alone could write and speak, the lingua ignota. This language who has survived thanks to the description given by the Holy Roman Catholic Church in an eponymous book is the title of a video of Edith Dekyndt which features a hand mirror...
THE SIMPLE FACT OF NOT BEING A WOMAN (1)
Messieurs DelmotteIn this early piece, part one of two, Messieurs Delmotte dresses up as some disco diva, dancing naked in front of the camera on a thumping disco beat. Is it so easy not being a woman?...
DISCONNECTION
Sam PeetersIt’s been more than 10 years since the financial crisis wreaked havoc across the globe. Shrouded in mystery, the financial sector is most notable by its expensive office buildings scattered around metropoles. Shot at La Défense, Paris, this film contemplates corporate architecture and its effect on, and significance for, society...
DE ACHTERKAMER (DANIËL ROBBERECHTS)
Jef CornelisDaniël Robberechts (who passed away in 1992) fully applied himself to writing after his studies in mathematics. In 1960 he was already a full-time writer, but not a ’professional’ one: without the financial support of his wife, Cécile Faniel, he would not have been able to write...
PROOF OF LIFE
Herman AsselberghsThe interior of an open, empty space: the frontier between ’inside’ and ’out side’ is slight. The only sign of human presence is to be found as a voice-over: a male voice recalling horrifying TV-images, a popular disaster film, a long-term imprisonment. The title alludes to the diplomatic negotiating jargon used during the video recording of a live hostage...
DOCUMENTARY CREDIT
Eva Meyer - Eran SchaerfIn economic jargon, “documentary credit” refers to a mode of payment that involves a bank between buyer and seller in order to ensure the buyer’s reliability. In the context of politics, “documentary credit” describes a kind collateral security that is not only based on the on the mutual loss of trust in each other but on the same time also recreates such mistrust...
