OVERZICHT TITELS
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ROSE DE LIMA
Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel Bonnemaison20 kilometres off the Peruvian capital Lima, Villa El Salvador is no ordinary ‘barriada’. With its more than 300.000 inhabitants, it is a true example of self-management, autonomy and community. Born in the early 1970’s, after some 50...
X-MISSION
Ursula Biemann’X-Mission’ explores the refugee camp as one of the oldest extraterritorial zones. Taking the Palestinian refugee camps as a case in point, the video engages with the different discourses – legal, symbolic, urban, mythological, historical – that give meaning to this exceptional space...
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE HOLY BLOOD
Koen TheysThe performers in this video are a group of naively dressed up biblical characters, taking part in one of Flanders’ processions of The Holy Blood. Theys captured the footage during a performance he organized in the Brussels art space ETABLISSEMENT D’EN FACE...
POINT AND SHOOT
Esther JohnsonA short animation in an ongoing series of formal experiments that take instruction procedures and mechanical apparatus manuals as source material. Quick-cutting juxtapositions explore photographic instructions from SLR and Bolex manuals for taking the perfect picture and sequence in time...
ALIVE SKIN
Messieurs DelmotteWhile Messieurs Delmotte sleeps, his body parts acquire a life of their own....
LETTER HOME
An van. DienderenLetter Home is a film letter - without the use of narration - in which the touristic images of the artist's trip to Japan are digitally distorted. The basic strategy of this type of digital corruption is copying, which is used in the film to challenge the western perception of Japan as a ‘copying culture’...
THE ROOT PROBLEM OF THE WORLD
Steve ReinkeThis is adapted from a two-channel video installation of the same name I presented at Birch Libralato in conjunction with the Images Festival in Toronto in 2011. The footage is from reel-to-reel video documentation of the lecture Joseph Beuys gave at NSCAD in 1976 on the occassion of his honorary degree...
nostalgia, 2009, Pieter Geenen © the artist. Courtesy of Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp
NOSTALGIA
Pieter GeenenEtymologically, the word ’nostalgia’ is derived from the Greek words ’nostos’ and ’algos’, meaning ’return’ and ’suffering’...
DAGBOEK VAN EEN KRANKZINNIGE
Jef Cornelis“Dagboek van een krankzinnige” (Diary of a Madman) is a television adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s eponymous short story. This classic story of modern Russian literature consists of diary entries from Aksenty Ivanovich Popryshyn, a low-ranking civil servant who lived under the repressive government of Tsar Nicholas I...
Thirty one nights, my Palestinian encounters , Laurent Van Lancker, 2003 © the artist & producer
THIRTY ONE NIGHTS, MY PALESTINIAN ENCOUNTERS
Laurent Van LanckerThirty-one encounters, thirty-one nights: a personal diary that maps the discovery of a different Palestine - intimate, self-reflexive and full of hidden poetry. A personal diary that maps the discovery of a different Palestine – intimate, self-reflexive and full of hidden poetry...
