TECHNIQUES DE SURVIE EN SOLITAIRE (2007-2008)

Current exhibition:

ATELIERFRANKFURT, from April 4th to May 16th 2009

Next screening:

Bandits-Mages festival, Bourges, France, 9th of May 2009
(along with 5 earlier works)

VIDEOCHOREGRAPHIES

DVD Release

This collection of video works and previously unreleased material provides insight into the research and experiments Antonin De Bemels has been elaborating for more than a decade. Video, installation and scenography are just some of the artistic media he employs.
The main subject in all these works is the body, and more particularly the dancing body or rather its spatial and temporal recomposition, obtained through various editing and processing methods. Thus, overlappings, collisions, repetitions, backward and forward motions, still images, residual images, as well as syncopated and elliptical editing concur to hinder, repress and condition movement's natural fluidity. This balance of power gives rise to fragmented bodies that struggle between the intervals and cuts. Bodies move restlessly, merge, give life to new hybrid creatures and symbolic figures such as the double, the marionette and the androgyne and conjure up mythological references such as Narcissus and Lilith.

A 24 page trilingual booklet accompanies this DVD.

Video extracts here.

STORIES BEHIND THE SCREEN - EMAF DVD

The European Media Art Festival invites you to take a look to "Stories Behind the Screen". That's the title of the festival's DVD, which contains 10 films of 10 European media artists. All of the contribuations were shown on the festival at Osnabrueck between 2002 and 2004, many of them have traveled around the globe as part of the EMAF tour programme. They all tell stories in a variety of ways that differ from the kind of Hollywood-story-telling we are used to.

The films:
"Nummer Twee" by Guido van der Werwe, NL, 2003, 3:08
"Light Body Corpuscles" by Antonin de Bemels & Gordon Delap, B, 2004, 6:00
"Safety Tips for Kids" by Roz Mortimer, GB, 2003, 5:06
" Hanoi" by Lucia Helenka, GB, 2004, 4:00
"Calling 911" by Jan de Bruin, NL, 2004, 8:00
"Living a beautiful Life" by Corinna Schnitt, D, 2003, 13:00
"L'Axe de Mal / Axis of Evil" by Pacal Lièvre, CDN/F, 2003, 5:45
"Optimizer Customizer" by Jan van Nuenen, NL, 2002, 12:10
"Perpetual motion in the Land of Milk and Honey" by Al & Al, GB, 2004, 6:20
"On a Wednesday Night in Tokyo" by Jan Verbeek, D, 2004, 5:35

Curated by Alfred Rotert and Ralf Sausmikat

More infos: EMAF

ALTITUDE 1000 - DVD

Altitude 1000 focuses on Brussels-based artists who combine sound and image in a refreshing way: from vj's to new media hackers, performance artists to installation designers. The Altitude 1000 compilation DVD and accompanying festival in co-production with Recyclart are the first results of an exciting search through the unique, yet fragmented Brussels audiovisual landscape. Altitude 1000 takes this fragmentation as its starting point and aims to render the rare diversity of the Brussels scene visible.

Track titles:

1 Antonin De Bemels: Au Quart De Tour
2 Bent Object & FoAM: Finalcall Supercrew
3 Anouk De Clercq, Joris Cool & Eavesdropper: Kernwasser Wunderland
4 Kris Verdonck: Duet
5 The Dead Texan: Glen's Goo
6 Ewo & Greetings From Tuskan: Lullabies For The Warriors
7 Eavesdropper & Visual Kitchen: Locker 03
8 Joel Godfroid: Ergon
9 Sarah Vanagt: Little Figures

DVD mastering and authoring by Sam Vanoverschelde. Sound mastering by Peter Van Hoesen, Yves De Mey and John Sellekaers.

Altitude 1000 is a Foton release in collaboration with Cimatics, December 2006.

More infos + online order: Foton