NIEUWE TITELS
CURFUW BELLS
Cel Crabeels
FILMISCHE SNELSCHETSEN 2
Filip FrancisIn Filmische snelschetsen 2, Filip Francis gives another account of his quickly edited film sketches. Shot in super-8, he juxtaposes short sequences of interiors view of his atelier and artworks to external views of several neighbourhood in Brussels. ...
INKTPOT
Luc Deleu - Filip Francis - De nieuwe ColoristenIn the dunes of the Belgian seaside town of Koksijde a bunker from World War II is with great deal of sense for detail transformed into a giant inkpot. This early video work is a collaboration between the utopian architect Luc Deleu, painter Filip Francis and the group ‘de nieuwe coloristen’ (translated as ‘the new colorists’)...
DRIE MINUTEN, RINGAUTOBAAN, TREKKEN, ROLTRAP, STOP STAP STOP STAP...
Filip FrancisThree minutes of a close-up on a clock. Suddenly, and unexpectedly, a close-up on the white lines of a highway appears. Speed and minimalism melt together. The next image is that of a labourer, lugging a pile of cables. The movement of an escalator in a subway station follows and finally the flickering of a traffic light for pedestrians changes from red to green and back again...
FILMISCHE SNELSCHETSEN
Filip FrancisWith his camera Francis sketches rough portraits of his friends, of flowers, of exhibitions, pieces of fabric and other objects. From a riding car he records glimpses of the city life....
LICHT & BEWEGING, GRAND BAZAAR, REGEN, LOPEN, ROLTRAP…
Filip FrancisAt night, in the highways and city streets, road and car lights seem to live a life of their own. It is the enchantment of the movement and distortion of these lights that Francis records from his car. Neon lights of advertisements pop up on the screen. During the day it is the movement of cranes on a building site that captures Francis attention...
ONEINDIGE BEPERKING, ETCETERA, 40.700 X9…
Filip FrancisThe artist writes the equation space = time over and over again, on giant white canvases. He makes geometrical figures with them. He repeats this kind of gesture, by drawing the number nine infinite times....
FRAME
Ken KoblandA seashore landscape, structured first by a moving car then re-constructed optically. A re-structured landscape. (http://www.kenkoblandfilms.com)...
PIECES FOR TUMBLING WOODBLOCKS
Filip FrancisThe artist is setting up wooden domino blocks in the Sint-Annatunnel in Antwerp. Then he records a close-up of the blocks tumbling. His experiments with the woodblocks continue in his studio. The succesful pieces he will use again in his exhibitions, which he also records....
SOLO FOR TUMBLING WOODBLOCKS
Filip FrancisA series of different experiments at an artistic workshop, a tunnel in Antwerp and in a gallery, with simple oblong pieces of wood, placed one after the other in such a way that, when the first one is touched, a chain-reaction is set off with the pieces falling backwards....
SUPERPOSITION
Filip FrancisThis work is the result of a collaboration between Filip Francis, Luc Deleu and Wout Vercammen. It is an early experiment with image in image, split screen, zoom in, fading, overlaps and other techniques that made the medium video—just out of the cradle in the 1970s—so exciting. The three artists took the camera and set out with great enthusiasm...
SUPER-SUPERPOSITION
Filip FrancisTwo men are sitting in a film studio. On the background the viewer hears the sound of opera music. Close-ups of the men’s faces reappear on the TV monitors at the bottom of the screen. The same concept is repeated, but now the men are standing up and moving their arms....
TENTOONSTELLING DE WARANDE TURNHOUT
Filip Francis
NEAR AND FAR / NOW AND THEN
Ken KoblandA two-part film, one part unedited camera footage of a late Autumn to Winter woods, and the other a highly manipulated blue-screen re-photography process. Each part mimics the action of the other. Each is involved with a background-foreground, motion-to-still image juxtaposition: with the whole to the part, the arrested moment to the one just gone, the nostalgia of space and time. (http://www...
EGG MUSIC
Filip FrancisThe same performance as in the video ‘Mensen en eieren’ (‘People and Eggs’), where people dressed in white are throwing eggs, is recorded from the other side. Now the viewer can see the eggs getting smashed against a white wall. The wall gets completely covered in egg yolk...
MENSEN EN EIEREN
Filip FrancisThis video is a document on a performance carried out by Filip Francis and a bunch of people dressed in white. They start, at an accelerating speed, throwing eggs on a wall. The viewer doesn’t see the eggs getting smashed, but only hears the crushing sound....
THE COMMUNISTS ARE COMFORTABLE
Ken Kobland... part Bronx reminiscence, part landscape fantasy; part morality play, part melodrama. A film in many parts with monologue segments written by James Strahs for Willem Dafoe, Spalding Gray, Ron Vawter, Peyton Smith and Luche Sacker. (www.kenkoblandfilms.com)...
COME IN
Cel CrabeelsThis tape is part of an installation with the same name. It consists of a one-hour recording of a door. The image on show is mainly static. It comes to life at random moments, when voices and footsteps can be heard. There is a knocking at the door, sometimes violent. Someone is fiddling the handle. Footsteps are running away...
EDENLOOP
Cel Crabeels’Edenloop’ suggests an itinerary, undertaken through the dense bottom growth of a forest. Several occurrences under way add a layered meaning to the whole. The trajectory evolves towards a turning point, from which it will arrive at its original position. This work should be fit into a given context, that of a video installation. It can be projected or shown on a monitor....
SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW
Cel Crabeels‘Somewhere over the rainbow’ is a close-up of a whistling mouth, from a steady camera point and without narrative structure. It is a 1-hour attempt at improvisation on the theme song of the film with the same name. An obsessive image and sound, it etches itself into one’s perception. This work should be fit into a given context of presentation as a video installation...
LEEDSTAPE
Cel CrabeelsThe people that move through Leeds seem to have a purpose, they are going somewhere. The artist chose not to. He carried out interventions at various times and places in the public space of the city. They became slightly disturbing when obstructing the natural flow of people, things and situations...
RED TAPE
Cel CrabeelsThe tape shows an extract of the video installation ’Red Tape’ this installation explores the temporal dimension in moving images by looping two basic movements of the camera, the transformation of a spatial barrier to the temporal one. The installation strove to test the meaning of the conversation from first to the second one....
8BANG! JAMES LEE BYARS RE-ENACTMENT
Cel Crabeels
RED TAPE - ORBIS TERRARUM
Cel CrabeelsRed tape stuck in straight lines on the floor, ceiling and walls creates an hermetically closed route through them. Two camera movements follow this line, one s an intact circuit and the other as its dismantling. This marking with tape can be seen as the equatorial contraction of an inner space....
DÉTACHEMENT
Cel CrabeelsThis minimal video installation shows the material filmed by two hand camera’s attached to the belly of a trotting horse on two oppositely placed screens. They simultaneously filmed the movements of respectively the front and the hind legs...
OUTPLACEMENT 01 (PORTRET)
Cel CrabeelsCel Crabeels explicitly tackles the issues of the area surrounding the St. Jan’s square. He visits the itinerary between the Fabiola Hall and the Sint Jan’s square almost on a daily basis, making contact with the people he meets on his way. He invites them to make a video portrait in the underground parking garage where he has built a studio for the occasion...
OUTPLACEMENT 02 (TRAVEL)
Cel CrabeelsIn ‘Détachement’ and ‘Outplacement’ Crabeels researches the possibilities and limitations of mapping something by means of video. In ‘Preview’ he looks at the way video can be used to show the spectator different ‘worlds’: past/ present, trauma/ reality...
A RIDDLE
Cel Crabeels
FLUSHED-AT-ONCE
Ken KoblandA short remembrance…a project created for an exhibition in commemoration of the events of Sept. 11. (http://www.kenkoblandfilms.com)...
SLAVE UNIT
Cel Crabeels‘Slave unit’ is a notion which indicates the status of network equipment. In photography it denotes the power of flash installations; a distinction is always made between dominant and subjected. In the video by Cel Crabeels the idea is applied to a setting with two dancers, a director, the camera, video equipment, the stage and the audience...
TOPOLOGIC
Cel CrabeelsCrabeels’s work ‘Topologic’ records the prolonged contortions of a man attempting to put on, and to take off again, a piece of clothing. Here the body is used both as a terrain of experiment, and as a metaphor for artist’s labour of inhabiting space in general...
CHANSON, LIED, SONG
Cel CrabeelsThe video shows an old lady in a home for the elderly. She sings the story of her own life, in improvised, rhyming phrases. Echoes from another age, language mosaics from an animated past receive an anachronous echo through added electronic sound collages, as a collision of time, memory and sound. The music is by Ederen Tatio / Stefaan Vinckevleugel....
NEARLY PRESENT, JUST PAST
Cel Crabeels"If I were young, I would destroy a Dan Graham piece, I would smash the goddamn Dan Graham piece." (Dan Graham in an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2001) This subjective-documentary video is part of a project on the violent and thorough destruction of a pavilion by the American artist Dan Graham...
PIECE FOR SPALD
Ken KoblandAn audio-mix, no image…scraps of Spalding Gray’s comments, from here and there… Assembled as part of a memorial for the storyteller and old friend, who lost himself in New York harbor in January of 2004. (http://www.kenkoblandfilms.com)...
VENTRILOQUIST BIRD
Messieurs DelmotteA short video-performance in which Messieurs Delmotte, standing in a park, lips the sound of a bird....
BEAUTY PLUS PITY
Emily Vey Duke - Cooper BattersbyThe contemporary fables of Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby propose that existence is abject, farcical, and messy. In their richly textured videos, Duke and Battersby employ live action footage, scavenged images, and simple animations to create episodic structures that evince a simultaneously utopian and dystopian world view...
LESSER APES
Emily Vey Duke - Cooper BattersbyLesser Apes tells the story of a love affair between a primatologist, Farrah and a female bonobo ape, Meema. Bonobos are the species with which humans share the most DNA, but unlike our species, they are matriarchal, live without conflict, and are unabashedly sexual...
SEA OF TRANQUILLITY
Hans Op de BeeckThe medium-length film ’Sea of Tranquillity’ is a combination of live video recordings of actors and digitally-generated 3D environments in which the viewer makes a night-time visit to a mysterious, mythical cruise liner, the ’Sea of Tranquillity’...
TWISTED REALISM
Maria Iorio - Raphaël CuomoTwisted Realism takes cases in italian cinema in the period of post-war reconstruction and “economic miracle” as starting point to investigate different “aesthetics of reality” and the genealogy of this epoch marked by a re-organisation of capitalism, increasing consumption, new economical and cultural influences, a large national migration, and the emergence of new technol...
BRUNELLESCHI’S MIRROR
Justin BennettIn Brunelleschi’s Mirror we find ourselves in the darkness, waiting for a glimpse of the world outside...
EFEMERIA
Jan VrommanEfemeria is a transcription to video of a project with slides, a poem and soundscape from 1958. This assemblage of ’words/images/sounds’ is extremely nude in its juxtaposition. The transcription to video of 2011, became an act of purity and brutality, radical in all its simplicity. The slides are from photographer Julien Coulommier, the words are written and read by poet Chris Yperman...
RAW MATERIALS
Justin BennettBased on personal memories reaching way back into time, Raw Materials creates a resonant patchwork with fragments of field recordings originating from divergent cities like Fribourg (Switzerland), Barcelona or Beirut. With a pitch-black image as canvas – a technique that actively shifts the attention towards the sound – snow-white text lines appear one by one in typewriter style...
THE TOY SUN
Ken KoblandA rumination on Time, with a capital "T". Time and its ravages, which really just means its progression, its nature. Set off by an "old" poem, a T.S. Eliot poem that’s literally haunted me for 30? or 40? yrs...even before I became an old man myself. (It’s an old man’s rumblings, and it never fails to move me...
WANDELEN IN BINNENLAND: PORTRET VAN DE FOTOGRAAF JULIEN COULOMMIER
Jan VrommanThe Belgian photographer Julien Coulommier doesn’t deal in the exotic, the eccentric, the technical performance; he penetrates the depth of banality, he is profoundly connected with his subjects. An Inland Walk is not only a portrait of a photographer, but also a portrait of the artistic context, the spirit of the time in which the work was developed (Cobra, etc.)...
WAR IS OVER
Jan Dietvorst - Roy VillevoyeIn making contact with this major historical event, the sight of someone who has experienced battle has to be the ultimate outcome. Likewise a film about a cemetery can’t therefore do without the sight of someone dead. The search for unknown soldiers in the battlefield often is undertaken with opposing motivations...
AFTER THE BATTLE
Jan Dietvorst - Roy VillevoyeThree films about the culture of remembrance of World War 1 (Winter Prayers 2006, The Scrap-Iron Age, 2008, War is Over 2011) have been re-edited in AFTER THE BATTLE. The search for remnants on the former battlefields of France and Belgium has its origin in a combination of materialist, ideological and supernatural motives...
CHERRY BLOSSOMS
An van. DienderenCarly is working late at night in one of the many translation booths in a dark plenary hall of the European Parliament. It is the only place worldwide where everyday work is translated in 23 languages. Carly exerts to translate a documentary about Japanese subculture. Without specific interest for the theme she translates monotonically from the Japanese...
NOCTURNE #2
Pieter GeenenRegistered with a mobile phone camera in the spring of 2011, ’nocturne #2’ shows the central lanes and squares of Tehran, and its surrounding streets, at their most quiet and empty moment of the day. In recent history, the area around the infamous Azadi Tower (Freedom Tower) has been the backdrop of various protests, demonstrations, and violent repression...
THE WAVE
Sarah Vanagt - Katrien VermeireIn "The Wave" the archaeological gaze of the viewer is set in motion: a mass grave from the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) opens and closes itself. In 2011 we placed a camera above the spot where nine victims were buried after their execution by Franco’s supporters in June 1939...
A DAY FOR CAKE AND ACCIDENTS
Steve Reinke - Jessie MottReinke continues to explore the quirky possibilities of the animation film, collaborating once again with Jessie Mott, who delivers her idiosyncratic drawings, paintings and collages, plus also wrote the accompanying texts. References to cartoons and comics are once more evident, though Reinke stays somewhat of a league of its own...
