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FRONTAL TREE
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte balances stiff as a rod, on the tips of his toes, with his forehead leaned into a tree....
BEGINNINGS
Roy VillevoyeIn his work Roy Villevoye (1960) explores issues around anthropological representation, the conventions of documentary filmmaking and the heritage of colonialism. Even though his videos, often realized in collaboration with Jan Dietvorst, are frequently considered documentaries, he distances himself explicitly from the genre...
ASH TREE
Sarah Vanagt"A girl touches tombstones in a graveyard. Her hand glides over the letters and carved inscriptions. Can she read death? Can she see death? In Ash Tree, the beginning of knowledge - the alphabet - mingles with the end of all knowledge: death...
DAS MODELL
Florian GwinnerReality bites its own tail. Florian Gwinner constructs a model of a world from the viewpoint that reality and its model are one. Starting with a white horizon, a camera tracks slowly backwards in a straight line. On its way, it glides past a few signs of human existence. Gradually, these make way for a church, houses, carsm then ever-wider streets and urban highrises...
Black box, 2009 Herman Asselberghs © the artist(s) & producer(s)
BLACK BOX
Herman AsselberghsThe event that, without a doubt, marked the beginning of the new century in popular consciousness and is a benchmark for the mass media is 9/11...
THE BLOB
Gert VerhoevenIn 2001 Gert Verhoeven presented a first draught of ’The Blob’ (2001) on a wide screen at the Palace for Fine Arts (BOZAR). This video is a report on the World Pumpkin Confederation Contest in Buffalo, New York and Port Elgin, Ontario, Canada...
A WEEKEND WITH MONSIEUR MAGRITTE
Jef Cornelis’a weekend with Monsieur Magritte’ was compiled from fragments of amateur films Magritte made himself on super-8 and 8mm. The first part – ’Saturday’ – drew from the films he shot in the 1956 -1960 period together with his friends from Brussels and from the recordings of his own works...
THE STREET
Jef CornelisThe street is more like a machine of movement equipped to make traffic run smoothly than, in its original and spontaneous form, a breeding ground for life. The efficiency controlling the traffic grid does not merely affect the existing living area, but also the form and pattern of a new way of living. Residential areas have turned into traffic zones; inhabitants are pushed back into their homes...
23 STOREYS
Ilona Ruegg'23 Storeys’ refers to the 23 levels of the Tour Centrale, also known as the 'Lotto Building’ in Brussels. At the time of the shooting, the building was completely empty. The camera first moves from the 5th level up the fire escape escape and then down from the 23rd floor through the empty corridors and rooms, always using the elevator from floor to floor, down to the 6th...
