In Profile Bartana focuses more closely on Israel's military service which is compulsory for both men and women, directing her gaze at shooting drills. Just as concentrated as the young women aiming their guns at a target, the camera captures the profile ...
]]>A bi-textual approach is employed in the installation ‘Tuin’ to reconstruct a cinematic moment of enchantment. In remaking a short passage of film from Fassbinder’s ‘Martha’, a romantic paradigm, over familiar to cinema history, is bi-located at the cent...
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Shafts of light and the camera are moving through the dark as in a glissando. Flat, sharply cut forms appear in black-and-white and high definition. They feel their way along expanses of wall, opening up storeys, windows and doors, and break down on floor...
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In the dark of the night there is more room for mysticism. Everyday life is robbed of its pace, we sleep and dream and are less alert. This is the time of which ghosts make use to pass us by; on their way from the unknown to the unknown. Moonlight is ...
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Conceived originally as a backdrop projection for the dance performance 'Chorée', this video is in itself a study on choreography. The image source is the oldest Belgian film footage, 'Film Médicaux' (1904) shot by Arthur van Gehuchten, Belgian anatomist,...
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Motion pictures, motion graphics and music interplay in a poetic reflection on our accelerated age. Simple geometric patterns, animation and live elements reflect the artists inclination towards mixed artforms. Motion graphics: Joris Cool Motion pictu...
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'Sonar' is short and sharp, a dynamic interplay between sight and sound. In the line of contemporary moving graphic arts, sonar is geometric, abstract and consists of purely digitally generated images (and sounds). The minimalist, electronic soundtrack b...
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'Portal' unfolds a space where you can drop your guard: a rhythmical, geometrical landscape, a soothing place made from sloping shapes and whispering sounds. Anouk de Clercq depicts an ‘interior landscape’, a mental space built of cool shades of grey and ...
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The Remixxx is a variation of the black box version of Time to Bone: in the kind of one-man cabins that you find in porn-film theatres, you can insert a coin and then make a choice from a film menu of which all the ingredients are aimed at one thing only:...
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In her work Bartana raises questions concerning the place of rituals and ceremonies common to Israeli society. In this instance she observes a group in Israeli society that carries out religious practices* within a closed community. She examines how feeli...
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