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SITE, EEN TOPOGRAFISCH PORTRET

An van. Dienderen
"What’s identity? To what extent does origin determine the work of an artist? An van. Dienderen analyses the matter by means of a visual anthropological portrait of José Besprosvany. This choreographer of Mexican-Jewish-Slavic origins tests out his multiple identity through the personal trajectory of his work...

UNE TENTATIVE DE DÉFINIR LA NOTION DE TRANSITION

Mira Sanders
An attempt at thinking the exhibition space in earlier and contemporary times. A drawing and thinking that are superimposing themselves and that blur the view of the spectator. We travel in the movie through different space and time transitions. We realise that the act of listing does not define transition(s), it is the act of moving that does....

REAL TO REAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Messieurs Delmotte
In ’Real to real photography’ a young man is shown, among others, blowing a whistle. Furthermore the image of a woman onscreen is half covered, a man is bombarded with fruit, a woman smokes a cigarette without taking it from her mouth and a head disappears behind a mountain of whipped cream...

WHYMPER: DE SCHETSENDE BERGBEKLIMMER

Harald Thys - Jos De Gruyter
1865: A London publisher commissions Whymper to make some sketches of a still virginal town in Switzerland: Matterhorn. Whymper is tempted by the challenging beauty of the mountain and he decides to conquer it in the company of some experienced climbers and with his sketchbook under his arm. Everything goes as planned, but when he descends the rope breaks and 4 of the company of 7 fall down...

Long Live the New Flesh, 2009 Nicolas Provost © the artist(s) & producer(s)

LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH

Nicolas Provost
’Long Live the New Flesh’ deploys a technique in which the images literally consume one other and the horror in all its visual power is brought to a natural boiling point. All the ingredients that have secured Provost’s experimental art films their international success are once again present here...

HIT HIM ON THE HEAD WITH A HARD HEAVY HAMMER

Rebecca Jane Arthur
Hit Him on the Head with a Hard, Heavy Hammer departs from the handwritten memoir of the filmmaker’s father and his experience of displacement during wartime. Referring to the notion Thomas Hardy termed ‘The Self-Unseeing’ in his eponymous 1901 poem, the film returns to childhood and the matters that harden us...

UNTITLED SIOBHAN VIDEO

Steve Reinke
Reinke’s camera put in the hands of a young girl that wanders around in the house before finding her mother on the outdoor terrace . “My eyes are being flung around by this young child who wants to go to the beach, stop that!” (Reinke)...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 87. CHILDREN'S VIDEO COLLECTIVE

Steve Reinke
In the early seventies I was a founding member of the Children’s Video Collective....

ALONE TOGETHER, THE SOCIAL LIFE OF BENCHES

Esther Johnson
Alone Together, the Social Life of Benches illuminates the thoughts and memories of frequent users of two public spaces in London: General Gordon Square, Woolwich and St Helier Open Space, Sutton...

WAITING FOR THE SECRET

Meggy Rustamova
Waiting for a Secret takes it starting point from a picture, revealing its secrets by zooming into the various details. Gradually, the picture becomes alive, raising issues such as isolation, linguistical confusion, pixelisation and the suggestion of movement within a still image....