MEDIA LIBRARY
The Argos Media Library is constantly expanding. Currently, it contains approximately 2500 audiovisual works and more than 4000 publications, the most extensive collection of its kind in Belgium. The audiovisual part of the collection can be called conceptual, documentary-oriented and essayistic. The publications are academic and analytical in orientation. Here were invite you to browse through our audiovisual acquisitions of the last years.
ACQUISITIONS 2007-2010
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....
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....
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. ...
EL MAGO, VIDÉO PARIÉTALE
Charley Case - Thomas Israël
REVUE OU
Emanuele CarcanoRevue OU Label: Alga Marghen – 15vocson045...
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...
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)...
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...
