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1937 [FIRST CHAPTER OF INSTALLATION, ENGLISH 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...
AMERICA'S ARMY
Jos De GruyterAs the video ‘America’s Army’ takes off we see how two brothers, Christoffel and Ryan, transport home their recently acquired computer. They spend the rest of the time totally isolated from the world in their attic, playing ‘America’s Army’, a computer game in which the player is recruited by the Special Forces of the American army...
FRONTAL TREE
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte balances stiff as a rod, on the tips of his toes, with his forehead leaned into a tree....
LA FILLE QUI DESCEND L'ESCALIER
Joëlle Tuerlinckxoriginal material from "After Architecture After", an exhibition by Joëlle Tuerlinckx curated by Moritz Küng 03.11.2006-25.11.2006 deSingel, Antwerp, Belgium...
PARADE
Hans Op de BeeckParade is an art video staged by Hans Op de Beeck on the scene of a theatre. The red velvet curtain opens, a slow waltz, composed especially for this film, starts playing, while a seemingly endless cavalcade of people comes walking by, in slow motion, like a stream of passers-by in a street...
HOW PHOTOGRAPHS ARE STORED IN THE BRAIN
Steve Reinke‘How Photographs Are Stored in the Brain’ assembles an archive of photographs and phonograph recordings discovered in an empty house. They are not my photographs or (presumably) your photographs, so they stand in for the idea of a family archive. A ruthless animation, sentimental and quietly mocking, yet perhaps still able to evoke sadness and longing....
UNTITLED PART 2: BEAUTY AND THE EAST
Jayce SalloumPart 2 in a series of attempts at concretizing the notion of interstitiality, this videotape addresses issues of nationalism & the nation state, polarities of time, alienation, the refusal & construction of political identities, ethno-fascism, the body as object & metaphor, agents, monsters & abjectness, subjective affinities, and objective trusts...
UN DIMANCHE APRÈS-MIDI À 6H DU SOIR
Jacques Louis NystIn both 'La clé du paysage’ and ’Un dimanche après-midi à 6h du soir’ the spectator is in the position of the voyeur, spying Danièle Nyst through a window. In 'La clé du paysage’, Danièle Nyst is sitting in the garden, flipping through a magazine. Her image is cut up by the window frame...
OUR AFRICA
Alexander Markov1960. The USSR starts humanitarian aid programs based on Marxist ideology in several newly independent African countries. For more than 35 years the Soviets expand their influence in Africa. Soviet filmmakers are sent along to document the glorious advance of socialism on the entire continent...
VLAANDEREN IN VOGELVLUCHT
Jef CornelisAn outlook on Flanders from the air. The familiar landscape is explored as it could never be explored before and this liberating experience makes it even more familiar in many ways. The spaces, plains and roads are taken up as part of a bigger unity – like on a roadmap, if it weren’t for the fact that the movement could make the exploration take place in a much more physical way...