OVERZICHT TITELS

BABULIA [SECOND CHAPTER OF INSTALLATION, FRENCH VERSION]

Nora Martirosyan
"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...

THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS

Michel Couturier
The shipping lane between Calais and the cliffs of Dover is the busiest in the world. This stretch of water is also the favoured route used by illegal immigrants in their attempt to reach the United Kingdom from Calais. The west-east axis of global trade is perpendicular to the south-north axis of migration triggered by war and poverty...

1

Shelly Silver
"’The world will devour you....’ A group of cops laugh and talk, while scanning the street for suspicious activity. An extreme close-up of a sensuously exposed neck; a soft pink fleshy ear turns to reveal an inquisitive hostile eye.... 1 is a short tape about longing, threat, power and seduction, with the camera functioning in turn, as aggressor, mediator and confessor...

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II

Michel Bonnemaison - Jacques Lederlin - Joëlle de La Casinière
A number of structural modules (design and music) and a rule set are introduced to twenty-odd video artists; with these elements the artists were supposed to produce a video about an application of the video medium (surveillance, simulation, etc.)...

COUDES

Michel François
A pair of elbows, of which the owner is wearing a purple sweater, keeps robbing against a rough surface over and over again. Holes appear gradually on the fabric....

DRUPPELS EN KOFFIE

Philippe Van Snick
A cup of coffee is standing on the table, next to two pieces of paper. The pieces have drops of coffee on them. As time goes by, the stains get bigger and bigger. New pieces of paper are laid on top of the other. In the end the coffee cup gets poured out....

Celebration, Hans Op de Beeck, 2008. Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano – Beijing – Le Moulin; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; Galerie Ron Mandos, Rotterdam – Amsterdam

CELEBRATION

Hans Op de Beeck
In harsh desert surroundings, with rocks and cactuses in the background, a wedding or some kind of celebration is taking place. It is blisteringly hot. The camera is mounted on a tripod.The scene is a tableau vivant: a living painting in which neither the view nor the picture frame changes...

GRAND PALAIS DEUXMILLEDIX

Luc Gobyn
Grand Palais deuxmilledix is an experimental film exploring the relationship between architecture and movement. The audiovisual production takes the viewer into the contours of the metal structure of the Grand Palais, Paris. The construction becomes the frame of the picture. Into the image appear silhouettes of fencers...

VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): LA POIGNÉE DE PORTE

Jacques Lennep
A door-handle is filmed with a steady camera. Within a few seconds, it becomes clear that the image is a trompe-l'oeuil in the surrealist Belgian tradition....

THE LOST SAIL

Justine Cappelle
The competences is a series of videos in which I explore the incompetences I experience to express myself after breaking up a relationship. The first video deals with the incompetence to show. In the second I search for a way to represent the inability to feel. The third video is about the incompetence to speak, find words...