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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...
RICHARD HAMILTON
Jef CornelisThe British painter Richard Hamilton talks and with students of different art academies, at the occasion of an exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts/Paleis voor Schone Kunsten in Brussels in 1971, about how he works and his sources of inspiration...
LE PETIT TOURISTE
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La CasinièreA ’train movie’ in the Urubamba valley, where a young gringo seems to be having bad dreams. All the racket of the train and the sound of a local band punctuate the elliptical editing of a phoney narrative, which pretends to end in Cuzco....
LE SPECTATEUR
Michel LorandThe Medea installation is made up of a large, square table with four video monitors. A single actor or actress is seen on three of the four monitors, from the waist up and frontal. The fourth monitor shows only text. The starting point is a short prose piece written by Lorand about a young woman intending to kill her two children after the end of her relationship with their father...
ADVISE TO IRAKI PEOPLE
Jean-Philippe ConvertThe film material of ‘Advise to Iraki People’ originates in the relatively peaceful Iraq of 1998...
DCA SPIEL
Hänzel & GretzelA scratched karaoke featuring among others a barking Vietnam war soldier, a blind knife magician and hypnotic comments on historical Olympic Games - an early rhythmic work....
LA FARDE AUX CANARDS
Jacques-Louis Nyst'La farde aux canards’ combines ducks with an array of functional objects (a foot bath, electrical cables, and so on), entities whose literal meanings have nothing whatsoever to do with one another, and which in that sense, also remain 'constant’ in substance. Nyst’s combinations, however, generate new and different meanings and in this case, the viewer’s hilarity....
BLACK BEHIND WHITE
Andreas BrehmerIn this video compilation, Brehmer toys around with words, images and sounds as in some sort of visual essay concerned with how we perceive things, how we describe them and how we deal with them. In order to understand what we see, a certain amount of belief in what we see is indispensable. Brehmer tests the associative imaginative powers of the spectator...
THE THOUSAND FACES OF GOD
Koen TheysVideo installation for one monitor. Different images of gods of all possible religions morph one into another as to unite in an always transforming new religion....
