OVERZICHT TITELS

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....

SIGHTLESS

Michel Lorand
SIGHTLESS is filmed in the heart of the countryside. In the middle of a vast grassland, a collection of stones has been overgrown with brambles and weeds. On top of this tumulus three trees are slowly dying, unable to get sap from their roots to their branches, because farmers removed a small layer of bark. The film consists of a series of static shots, increasingly closer and closer to one tree...

FOOTBALLEUR

Michel François
For Michel François, beauty is to be found in everyday life, where emotion and astonishment are waiting. Begging in the Barcelonian Ramblas is a true matter of art and genius as Footballeur’s protagonist proves. This old soccer player sitting on the sidewalk keeps the ball bouncing in the air with his feet. For as long as he wants. Come rain or shine....

Shooting into the Sun, Ria Pacquée, 2010. Courtesy the Artist

SHOOTING INTO THE SUN

Ria Pacquée
A video piece made of transferred slide show pictures that Ria Pacquée took over the course of years, a photographic series that is still on-going. In different parts of the world – Belgium, Europe, Marocco, India and different parts in Asia – the artist took frontal pictures of the sun...

Blanket Apology, Adam Leech, 2010 © the artist

BLANKET APOLOGY

Adam Leech
Blanket Apology focuses on strategies of communication that are used when public figures give public apologies. Like Speech Bubble (2008), Blanket Apology is a dialogue between a man and a woman...

A SMALL TOWN IN SPAIN, TRIPTYCH

Jan Vromman
In A Small Town in Spain, triptych we look back to the old- and recent history of the small town Trujillo (Extremadura, Spain). With this retrospection we stay, overwhelmed by tender memories, always close to its inhabitants. ...

TECHNOCALYPS - DEEL 2: PREPARING FOR THE SINGULARITY

Frank Theys
Technocalyps is a 3 part documentary about ‘transhumanism’, an ideology assuming that we approach an era where humans, as we know them, are no longer the driving force of civilization. All technological developments seem to converge to one main goal: to overcome humanity, to try and create something transhuman...

LE TOMBEAU DES NAINS

Jacques Louis Nyst
In 'Le tombeau des nains’ two pebbles are laid on the canvas-like white surface common to most of the Nyst’s videos of the time. Two fingers come along, and move about the pebbles, revealing the two black stains they were hiding. The fingers repeatedly attempt to move the stains as well, with no success...

XY 02

Edith Dekyndt
A circle of silk thread shakes hands, passes from one to another, winds, wandering, as if he were alive. The image is presented in video-projection, leaving the terrain of the hands and the curves of the wire appear on the wall like a mural....

SONSBEEK BUITEN DE PERKEN

Jef Cornelis
The 1971 Sonsbeek exhibition was subtitled 'Sonsbeek buiten de perken' (literally: "Sonsbeek Beyond Its Bounds", or freely as: "Sonsbeek Let Loose"). It was not limited to the confines of the park, but instead stretched out over all the Dutch nation. This was the period of land art, conceptual art, process art, minimal art, performance, and video; the traditional socle sculpture had disappeared...