World Wide Main consists of eleven programmes showing recent international videos. Most of these productions were made in 2003, a few date from 2001. The complete overview of these programmes will be published on this website on 10 May.
World Wide Main 1
a varied selection of short productions that we think are interesting, moving, innovative or aesthetically appealing. In an age dominated by digital video, artists increasingly apply the properties characterisric of cinema.
World Wide Main 2
The videos in this programme have black humour and a satyrical outlook on life and art in common.
World Wide Main 3
An analytical and a personal vision on relationships and friendship or the lack thereof by Jennifer Reeder and Breda Beban. Preceded by a poetic video by Petra Lindholm.
World Wide Main 4
Videos about travel in the widest sense of the word. What is this typical human urge to travel, to go forward?
World Wide Main 5
acollection of short experimental documentaries made in Senegal, Iran, Mexico, Bosnia-Herzegovena and Israel. Remarkable, poetical or confrontational stories/ impressions/ images that are inextricably linked to the people and local culture of the places the artist visited.
World Wide Main 6
American artists who offer a different view on historic and recent events and create new narratives by reconfiguring facts and fiction.
World Wide Main 7
Artists who work with actors in order to analyze ‘the acting’ and the psychological processes inherent to it. Gidley, for instance, applies a classic narrative structure, while in Bingo Show by Christelle Lheureux the ‘actors’ are game show hosts.
World Wide Main 8
The European premiere of Jennifer Reeder's first digital feature film Tiny Plastic Rainbow.
World Wide Main 9
The world premiere of an experimental documentary by Carlos Nader about racial relations in Brazil.
World Wide Main 10
A collection of recent works by Chinese artists – a foretaste of World Wide Focus on China in 2005.
World Wide Main 11
Public Lighting, the new video by the leading figure of Canadian avant-garde filmmaking Mike Hoolboom.
