Video Art Attack! @ Campo Victoria Ghent B 23/05/2013

Een mash up video expo met vette namen als Bill Viola, Paul McCarthy, Nicolas Provost maar ook een reeks videowerk van aanstormende Belgische en internationale namen.  Exotisch en broeierig videowerk uit  het  KLEX  filmarchief en de LIVE SPEELFILM van Kristian Van Der Heyden.  Vanaf 14:00 doorlopend, voor de gratis voorstelling Belching moet u echter wel reserveren.     During this VIDEO ART ATTACK! in CAMPO Victoria we present you a mash up video expo with some extraordinary names like Bill Viola, Paul McCarthy, Nicolas Provost, emerging Belgian and international video violence. The Kuala Lumpur Experimental Filmfestival will presents us an exotic film ...

The Reconstruction of Cinema @ Staffordshire University UK 27/02/2013

The Reconstruction of Cinema A lecture and screening on the borders between cinema and experimental cinema. Brought to the graduate students and the Film, Sound and Vision department of Staffordshire University UK. Lectured by Kristian van Der Heyden, Frank Merkx and Jimmy Hendrickx Content “The Reconstruction of Cinema Project” “The experimental filmprojects of the students at the KASK School of Arts Ghent’ “Personal Video Work Q&A “ Questioning Hollywood Narration Method HNM What defines HNM? Suspension of disbelief What is quality in film? What defines story structure in HNM? Hollywood history Auteur theory vs Classic Hollywood Cinema The Language Of Cinema

I RAZOR Belgian Movie Premiere at KASK Academy Ghent Belgium

  I Razor is a film by Circus Devils. Caution: May contain scenes of unusual magic. Director’s Statement from Todd Tobias:I RAZOR is a film told largely in pictures and music – an immersion into a world experienced by a man whose brain has been permanently altered by an experimental drug known as I Razor. The film was made on a micro-budget using digital SLR cameras, super-8 film, and edited on Final Cut. The presentation is impressionistic and hallucinatory, but the aesthetics of experimentation alone did not guide the vision of the film. Instead, the film is focused squarely on its ...

6 Appocalyptic Shorts @ KASK Academy Ghent Belgium 07/02/2013

6 APOCALYPTICAL FILMSCREENINGS at KASK During the NEIN exhebition at 7th of  february 2013 in the ZWARTE ZAAL – Nicolas Provost – Rob Van Eyck – Jimmy Hendrickx – Arno Coenen & Rene Bosma NICOLAS PROVOST : – Long Live The New Flesh – Suspension – Moving Stories – ROB VAN EYCK – Anoo 2033 Flanders only truly cult-icon delivers a short from his obscure filmdungeon expecialy for us. This little film was the research that led to his Afterman Trilogy, Flanders’ MAD MAX. Van Eyck likes to place enormous political and ecological issues that ravages our little country as ...

Split Brain Sounds & Video Experiments @ Cama ATK/ Hanoi – VIETNAM

On 8 november 2012 Cama ATK invites Simon Blu Wasem, ‘an experimental sound artist’ and performer to present an international art organisation, named PORT ACTIF.  A collective of both, video artists and performers who are strongly experimenting with their media from a mixed media point of view. As Simon is mainly an experimental sound artist himself, he brings us a powerfull selection of experimental videoworks, all with a focus on the sound aspect and all labled with heavy experiment. You will see and experience things you never experienced before. Port active wil attack your sound & video intelligence, your brains ...

Soundexploration Workshop @ New Space – Hue/ VIETNAM

SOUNDEXPLORATION WORKSHOP @ NEW SPACE/ HUE by Simon Blu Wasem NSAF invites Experimental Soundperformer Simon Blu Wasem from Brasil. As a member of Art Group PORT ACTIF will Simon Blu organize the workshop SOUNDEXPLORATION where in he focus on experimental music production and performance. In this Workshop Blu Simon will introduce you in his very personal workflow, his philosophy and the poëtry of the daily sound that surounds us. Together with you, Simon will explore the soundscape of Hue and help you translating your personal impressions into a soundinstallation. Just like this soundcomposition will be active in an installation, the ...

Video Workshop @ Katara Art Center – Doha/ QUATAR 06/10/12

Event Details This is an intensive video art workshop in which material will be sampled and resampled from live and internet sources. A video piece will be created with the group present while exploring the ideas behind them. Below is a description of the concept by the artists: We live in an era of wealth of information, and the issue of authorship is no longer central. This development lead to the phenomenon of video in which no real footage is created by the person who publishes it, existing videos used to create completely different messages in a different context than ...

Private Screening @ Mid Levels HONG KONG 28-09-2012

When We Meet II @ Findars – Kuala Lumpur/ MALAYSIA 26/09/12

KLEX and PORT ACTIF present a night of experimental video screening + noise + sound + live performance at FINDARS on WED, 26 Sept. Featuring Robbert & Frank (Belgium), Blu Simon Wasem (Brasil) and Yong Yandsen (Malaysia).

The Reconstruction of Cinema @ Videotage HONG KONG 07/08/2012

THE RECONSTRUCTION of CINEMA Saturday 07 augustus 2012  -  8:00pm – 10:00pm VIDEOTAGE Unit 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Hong Kong T +852 2573 1869 F +852 2503 5978 – Screening: 8:00pm – 9:30pm – Artist Talk: 9:30pm – 10:00pm – 10:00pm-… Live Streaming Sound Performance/ The Reconstruction of Music A screening focussing on the conservative aspects of modern cinema. By video artist/ director Jimmy Hendrickx, lecturer at the School Of Arts KASK – Ghent – Belgium Numerous audio-visual productions, independent of their quality will never enter the movie theatre. Film must meet certain requirements, film ...

Experimental Documentary @ Kedai Tjikini – Jakarta/ INDONESIA 17/05/12

Introduction into Experimental Documentary by Jimmy Hendrickx, lecturer Video-Art and filmhistory at the KASK School of Arts Ghent – Belgium Screening: 1. Kenneth Michiels Twenty-One + Seven Seven year-old Vibe lives with her grandparents. On weekends, she travels many kilometres to see her parents; the magic of childhood disappears, making way for reality and a delicate moment for me to ask her how her situation came to be. Vibe’s answers take me to the idyllic landscapes in Flanders to her mother, Britt, who lives cut off from the outside world. I join mother and daughter for an indirect dialogue. In ...

Drop Of Sound @ Findars Gallery – Kuala Lumpur/ MALAYSIA

  DROP OF SOUND: Brasilian Experimental Soundperformance and More Soundperformance/Music/Shortmovie On Sunday 7 April 2012 7:30 till 9:30 pm @ Gallery VER – Rod Fai Night Market – Bangkok VER invited Blu Simon Wasem, an experimental music artist who will bring his latest composition ‘Sound Ritual’. He will start this evening with the screening of the shortmovie ‘Pudica’ from Belgian video artist Jimmy Hendrickx. Simon Blu did the soundscore of this movie. Gallery VER invited Jimmy Hendrickx a little earlier this year. So people who enjoyed his movie ‘Far West’ now have the change to view his latest production. To ...

Experimental Video & Soundworks @ Straits Records – SINGAPORE

23/03/12 EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO & SOUNDWORKS @ STRAITS RECORDS – Singapore 1. “Olivia Rochette & Gerard-Jan Claes” -Because We Are Visual-   30 min In ‘Because We Are Visual’ Olivia Rochette and Gerard-Jan Claes immerse themselves into the world of public video journals. The Internet and its online communities intend to bring people closer together and to connect them. Yet, surprisingly, it seems that the virtual world confronts these so-called vloggers more than ever with their own loneliness. This documentary allows the viewer to discover this contemporary phenomenon and focuses on the experience of the body within this virtual space. By ...

When We Meet @ Findars – Kuala Lumpur/ MALAYSIA 02/03/12

The Reconstruction of Cinema @ Gallery VER – Bangkok/ THAILAND 18/02/12

The Reconstruction of Cinema @ Chiangmai University – Chiangmai/ THAILAND 18/02/12