 | | Jacco Olivier | | Stumble (NL, 2009, 3'36”) | | A beetle lies on its back, its legs wriggling about in the air. It is a miniature characteristic for Olivier. The artist seizes on the mini-anecdote to paint the bug in quick, varied brush strokes, in all sorts of landscapes and weather conditions. When combined in an animation, these colorful paintings make up a day in the life of the beetle. When evening falls the crickets strike up their song, and the beetle finally manages to right itself. | |  | | Lernert & Sander | Revenge: Bottle of Champagne (NL, 2009, 1'35”, HD),
Revenge: Bowling Ball (NL, 2009, 0'29”, HD), Revenge: Hammer (NL, 2009, 0'34”, HD) | ''Revenge' is a series of short videos, originally part of a two-hour documentary about revenge for VPRO television. The ingredients: a bottle of champagne, waiting to be opened. And the laws of physics.
The objective: sweet revenge.
| |  | | Nicolas Provost | | Suspension (BE, 2007, 3'00”) | | Letting go of realist constraints, and going back to the mirror images of some of Provost's famous previous works, we are diving into a cosmic ocean of ever metamorphosing baroque circumvolitions in which our minds try to capture reassuring forms before letting the ghostly demons blur our vision. | |  | | Nicolas Provost | | Gravity (BE, 2007, 6’12”) | | The cinematic kiss is probably one of the most archetypical images to be found in film history. It is usually a reassuring and sometimes climactic element in a movie’s storyline. Not in Nicolas Provost’s ‘Gravity’ though: with stroboscopic effects, more than a dozen kissing scenes, most from stereotypical 1950s romantic dramas, are edited together and superimposed. Narrative is subverted as the kissing is isolated from its context entirely; the action slows down and flickers back and forth. Every now and then, shots from different films overlap and match; protagonists merge and diverge again a few seconds later. The sugary and dramatic soundtrack of romantic film music contrasts with the deconstructed images; together, they form a dazzling 6-minute vertigo where love becomes a passionate battle. | | |
