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J'ESPÈRE QUE VOUS ALLEZ BIEN
Boris Van der AvoortTaken from film archives, this playful and nostalgic ‘montage’ wants to picture the lives and hopes of three generations of a Belgian family between 1931 and 1997. Images belonging to the family possessions take us back to childhood and play, journeys, relationships, dancing...
AUTOPORTRAIT CONTRE NATURE
Michel FrançoisA character in a blue shirt is filmed with a fixed camera, in slow motion. We hear the echo of his footsteps. It’s the artist himself: this is an “auto portrait contra nature”. François lights up a cigarette while glass bottles start raining down around him: they shatter noisily, yet miraculously without ever hitting him...
OUVERTURE. CASTELLO DI RIVOLI, 1985
Jef CornelisA report on the Castello di Rivoli, an 18th century castle in the Torino region, formerly a summer home to royal nobility, but as of 1984 a Contemporary Art Museum. Its permanent collection comprises work by the likes of Gerhard Richter, Joseph Beuys, Sol Lewitt and Bruce Nauman and it documents crucial moments in the development of contemporary Italian art...
PAUL VAN BOSSTRAETEN, CULTIVATEUR D’ORCHIDÉES
Jacques LennepVideo, 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...
EUROPALIA: STEDELIJK MUSEUM AMSTERDAM 60-70
Jef CornelisDutch and International Art, 1960 to 1970: the exhibitions of works from the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam were prepared by the museum for Europalia and presented at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Geert Bekaert talks to the director of the Stedelijk Museum, M. de Wilde, and this conversation is alternated with pictures of the works from the collection...
BEELDENDE KUNST IN BELGIË, 1986
Jef Cornelis - Freddy CoppensOriginal broadcast date: 16/03/1986...
COUDES
Michel FrançoisA pair of elbows, of which the owner is wearing a purple sweater, keeps robbing against a rough surface over and over again. Holes appear gradually on the fabric....
NON-LIEUX, PART I
Pascal BaesAn attempt to exorcise the satanic aspects of negativism: the gothic-romantic phantoms, the Eido-Kabuki or Tibetans are creatures that failed to achieve a specific goal in their lives. They keep returning because of this unfinished business. There is the negation of choreographic movement, of tourist scenery and local aesthetic value...
