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Michel FrançoisA person pulling on a sweater. The sweater adopts the contours of the face beneath it without making that face fully recognisable. This gesture describes a spontaneous amalgam of interrelated postures, insights and associations....
CAPTIVE HORIZON
Lukas MarxtCaptive Horizon operates on a delicate line between reality and illusion. Lukas Marxt´s favourite motifs – barren landscapes, seemingly untouched by humans, but at the same time suggestively apocalyptic, and subtle changes in perception that play tricks on the observer – construct a peculiar narrative filled with mysterious angles and twists...
L'ESPRIT BELGE
Angel VergaraIn ’L’esprit belge’, politicians, journalists and artists make an appearance. In a montage of historical images, including a number of drawings and paintings, Angel Vergara sketches a subjective historical frame in which Belgium is being discussed...
2012
Claude CattelainIn 2012 Claude Cattelain puts a light bulb on his mouth and holds it with his teeth. ...
ORATORIUM FOR ONE PREPARED VIDEO PLAYER AND EIGHT MONITORS
Frank TheysThe video player is positioned in the middle of the room. The magnetic tape rolls out of the player as a big loop which travels over several supports around the player. Surrounding this is a second circle of monitors on pedestals facing the centre of the player and the video loop...
MEDIASTUDIEN (NACH HEINRICH HOFFMANN)
Koen TheysIn 1927 (years before he came to power in Germany), Adolf Hitler posed in a studio for his private photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. The pictures they made were used to study the dramatic effects of certain gestures, and how to use them during Hitler’s public apparitions. Hitler was one of the first (if not the first) politician(s) who introduced the idea of media-training...
LA FORCE FAIT L’UNION FAIT LA FORCE
Johan GrimonprezAn acceleration of a camera movement, a dancer and some racehorses. They all take the same rhythmic run to the climax. Johan Grimonprez sets up a sociological scrutinising of the universe of horse racing and unbridles it through its absurd angels. He comes up with a universe far removed from childhood when horses were associated with fairs and merry-go-rounds....
CONTAINER 01: OVER SENTIMENTALITEIT
Jef CornelisOn the occassion of ‘het ontroerparcours’ (course of emotions), a series of articles in which a number of Flemish people were questioned about their subjective definition and experience of ‘emotion’, the Container-panel decides to investigate the term...
WANDELING
Rudi RommensThe camera is moving slowly along a ’polder’ landscape. The viewer gets to see the things the hiker does. There’s no road nor any human presence, only nature....