OVERZICHT TITELS
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IJSBREKER 04: KUNST TE KOOP
Jef Cornelis - Freddy Coppens - Anton Stevens - Jackie ClaeysThe television programme ‘Ijsbreker’ always undertakes an expedition into the most dangerous areas of the cultural icy mountain ranges, reeling about this time between the peaks of visual art and the hidden iceberg of art trade, the gallery circuit, art criticism and museum policy...
THE STEWARTS HAVE A PARTY
Hans Op de BeeckThe Stewarts are a carefully cast fictitious family. The various members appear and disappear in an empty white room, like life-sized marionettes dressed in white. As is customary in the sub-genre of marionette theatre, they are manipulated by black-clothed puppeteers who are part of the set entourage: production assistants, a makeup girl and a hair stylist...
THE ASCENT OF MAN. PART I: SILENT RUNNING-APPENDIX
Jayce SalloumBlack-and-white images of a lake and a wood fill the screen. The viewer hears soft piano music, alternated with the sound of birds. Suddenly a man starts screaming. The music becomes alarming. Is there any danger?...
CONTAINER 10: EXOTISMEN
Jef CornelisA conversation about the predominantly Western fascination with exotic cultures. According to Herman Pollig, who made a number of exhibitions about exoticism under the header “Exotic worlds, European fantasies”, exoticism gets in the way of an objective understanding of alien cultures...
THE CORRIDOR
Sarah VanagtFor 5 days Sarah Vanagt and cinematographer Annemarie Lean-Vercoe followed a donkey during its weekly visits to old people in nursing homes in South-England. From home to home, from room to room. Each time the donkey was welcomed warmly, with greetings, songs, strokes, childhood stories, poems, and laughter...
Eth(n)ique Vietnam, Laurent Van Lancker, 2000 © the artist & producer
ETH(N)ICS VIETNAM
Laurent Van LanckerIn 1997 a young Anthropology and Cinema MA Graduate endeavours on a voyage to North Vietnam with two friends to shoot his first ethnographic documentary film. The enterprise is auto-financed and DV based, Digital Video having only recently been commercially introduced to the market. The initial excitement and spirit of adventure, though, are soon to be cut short by a major obstacle...
PARTITION POUR UN MOUTON
Jacques Louis NystA suite of photographic and filmic images made in the country. An ode by and for the environment of the sheep....
RALFS FARBEN
Lukas Marxt“We can’t use the same light, we have to use completely new keys with completely new light and even these can be found to a limited extent,” says Ralf at one point...
LITTLE SPARTA, ET IN ARCADIA EGO
Jef CornelisLandscape artist, poet, sculptor, and painter Ian Hamilton Finlay is best known for the transformation of his Lanark farmhouse, near Edinburgh, Scotland, which he started in 1966. The estate is a miniature ‘republic’ of symbolic sculptures, temples, and conceptual artistic pieces woven into the fabric of his garden’s flowers and water...
