OVERVIEW TITLES

THE VANISHING VANISHING-POINT

Effi Weiss - Amir Borenstein
Since autumn 2005 Effi and Amir have been following an olive tree that was planted in the Parc Leopold, a small and well-tended park at the feet of the European Parliament, and a few dozens of meters away from their apartment in Brussels. The Olive tree, as foreign as them, appeared in the park several weeks after their own arrival in this city...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 38. EXPERIMENT

Steve Reinke
During this film, you’ll need to take down notes and readings from the screen. We are going to investigate... We are going to use this machine... First of all, let’s take a look inside to see how it works. It looks complicated but the principle is simple... Let’s turn out the lights....

ADDICTIVE 01

Edith Dekyndt
‘Addictive’ is a project, which started in the beginning of 2002. On the Internet, several web cams were sought out, aimed at sea and lakeside beaches. The rhythm of their refresh rate varies; some show fresh actualization every couple of seconds, others every ten minutes and still others every hour...

MADAME PAUL SIX, UNE FERMIÈRE QUI A DES LETTRES

Jacques Lennep
Video, apart from photography and holography, was but one of the media Lennep made use of during the 1970s, as he was adding on to his ‘museum of men’. His human models were derived from all layers of the populations, but they shared a common obsession for collecting things or, at the very, least an unusual passion...

GLASS AND HONEY

Grace Schwindt
'Glass and Honey' deals with commodification of social relations and alienation in capitalist society. The character ‘Artist” speaks a text into a microphone and then writes it on the back wall. She moves building blocks that are positioned against the back wall and places them around the other character „50F“...

OWNER OF THE VOYAGE

Jan Dietvorst - Roy Villevoye
Since 1992, Roy Villevoye has frequently visited Papua, the former Dutch New Guinea. Visual artist Jan Dietvorst has joined him regularly; together they produce an oeuvre of films that deal with the influences to which the local people, the Asmat, have been exposed since their first contact with Western outsiders in the 1950s...

TELEVESSEL

Joëlle de La Casinière
Televessel is a classified television work (in the sense intended by Georges Perec) and an initial rational attempt at television aesthetics. Based on a typology of ‘trunk-men’ and ‘talking heads’, this praying figure of the small screen has arranged a huge all-musical composition known as an ‘oratorio’ on account of its obvious character of sacred art...

C'EST MOY QUE JE PEINS, WIE ALLEEN STAAT HEEFT RECHT VAN SPREKEN

Jef Cornelis
“C’est moy que je peins” wrote Montaigne to make it clear to the reader that he wrote his Essays in order to be seen in his “simple, natural, everyday fashion, without striving or artifice.” Writing in this instance turns out to be a basic tool for introspection and an attempt to make manifest the writer’s subjectivity...

LETTRE À JEAN ROUCH

Eric Pauwels
This film is a moving tribute to French filmmaker Jean Rouch. Pauwels, a former collaborator of Rouch, accompanies him on a trip to Japan. In this cinematic letter, which he himself calls “a journey into the memory”, Pauwels philosophises about the essence of cinema and, consequently, of life....