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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 84. STENTOR

Steve Reinke
We are all so physically repulsive, special psychic forces are necessary for us to couple....

TOURIST RENOUNCEMENT

Messieurs Delmotte
The video ’Tourist renouncement’ was originally recorded in 1995 in Togo, as part of the project ‘Afrikanisch-Europäische Inspiration’, set up by Togolese artist El Loko who was living in Germany. For two months eight artists from various countries in Europe and Africa worked on this cultural exchange...

HISTOIRE D'UN CORPS

Jacques Lennep
A short conceptual work by this Belgian pioneering video artist about corporality and memory. The artist is in a room that resembles the lavatory of a school of gym. He takes off his suit and a female voice-over starts to sum up some of his physical problems and ailments: scars on the knee, a curvature of the spine due to scoliosis, angiomas...

REPÉRAGE

Herman Asselberghs
Why not remake 'Zabriskie Point'? Michelangelo Antonioni's early seventies film was about contemporary America seen from a distance. ‘Moi, j’ai regardé l’Amérique telle qu’elle m’est apparue, sans savoir ce qu’elle est,’ the Italian director stated, philosophically downplaying his thorough research into late sixties U.S. turmoil...

BESTE STEVE

Herman Asselberghs
In Beste Steve ('Dear Steve'), a man is smoothly dismantling a brand new MacBook Pro. Meanwhile, in a voice-over, a letter is read, addressed to Steve Jobs and signed by the artist. Beste Steve reveals the irreducible materiality of a tool that symbolises so-called immaterial labour...

FEEDBLACKJECT

Pascal Baes
Pascal Baes experiments with the reflecting feedback of a video projector in a meticulous interaction with a performance by his life companion Aï Suzuki. In post-processing, the images were digitally edited, which results in an expressionist, abstract study of the human body...

THE BISHOP & THE DOCTOR

Jan Dietvorst - Roy Villevoye
The Bishop & The Doctor is a splitscreen projection of two synchronously presented events both taking place in the Asmat in the Indonesian province of Papua, former Dutch New Guinea, concerning the activities of two typical exponents of the White Man’s Burden. In the right part a German Doctor operates on a Papua in what almost looks like a home, in order to treat a lump in his face...

L'ÂGE DE SABLE

Charley Case
A young boy is walking in the desert. Is he lost? Filmed in warm sepia colours, we see him dragging a copy of an antique Greek vase. What is his destiny? Under a burning sun, the boy is huffing and puffing himself forward. Will he reach his goal, whatever that one is? The longer the way, the more difficult he finds it dragging the vase through the loose sand. Will he make it or rather give up?...

FENÊTRE DE VUE

Mira Sanders
Fenêtre de vue is a graphical exploration of how a drawing after experiencing two residencies, lines itself step by step out. The exploration considers the window as a possible perspective to capture an imaging and thinking of a drawer that is re-imagining the route she made in the two residencies....

TOKYO-PICNIC

Pascal Baes
The setting is Tokyo-Sinjuku, towards the end of the month of May. Baes edits microscopic images of blossoming flora and fauna and urbane turbulence in a spastic stream of wriggling shapes and colours. The soundtrack of abrasive sounds and scouring textures complements the atmosphere of confusion and anxiety....