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ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK SONG
Steve ReinkeNamed after Harry Smith’s seminal "Anthology of American Folk Music,” ’Anthology of American Folk Song’ re-inscribes the optimistically paranoid mythological landscape of contemporary America. Reinke illustrates this by saying "they had been unable to believe in the existence of terrorists. After all, none of them had discovered any repressed memories of terrorist abuse...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 79. THE BOXERS
Steve ReinkePure sensation. Pillow of flesh. White cotton sheets. Emerge into daylight. Spring mechanism....
CLAMOR
Edurne RubioPeople who committed suicide and babies who died before being baptised were not accepted in Catholic cemeteries until not so long ago. Desperate relatives secretly sought out a dignified place for their bodies. Burials that shared hills and wind with executed people, atheists, passers-by, Protestants.....
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 34. ICE CREAM
Steve ReinkeSometimes it takes a while to figure out what it is we really want....
DE STOEL WAAROP IK ZIT / LA CHAISE SUR LAQUELLE JE SUIS ASSIS
Jan VrommanJan Vromman is not actively concerned with the creation of an oeuvre; he rather makes an impulsive use of wide ranging styles and gestures. The DVD ’De stoel waarop ik zit’ (‘The Chair I Sit Upon’) consists of two parts...
VARKENSPEST / PESTE PORCINE
Jan VrommanFor several times the native village of the video maker, Wingene, was an epicentre of swine fever. Shaken by the mass destruction of pigs the artist made a poetical videogram with some self-made images and images from the TV news. Homage to the swines who fell on the sacrificial altars of profit seeking....
ARRANGEMENT IN GREY
Emmanuel Van der AuweraThe title Arrangement in Grey is an allusion to the painter James Abbott Whistler, who used it to emphasize the ascendance of abstract over figurative composition...
THE MUSIC BOX
Jef CornelisIn 1932 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy shot ’The Music Box’, a remake of ’Hats Off’, their silent movie from 1927. The location in both films is the same; the only thing that is different is the object the movers Ollie and Stan have to drag up: in the first draught it is an automatic washing machine, in the second a piano...
AS ] THEN
Peter DownsbroughIn AS ] THEN static, photographical images are alternated with, among others, shots from a driving car. The recordings were partly made in the immediate surroundings of the former Wielemans-Ceuppens brewery in Brussels; the locations consist of building yards, the railroad, a crossroad and a railway viaduct. These images are linked to recordings made on Boulder Highway in Las Vegas...
