Benjamin Verhoeven
Address: Keizer Karelstraat 103 - 1000 Brussels
Metro: 1 en 5 (Schuman)
Bus: 28 - 61 (Ardense Jagers) 64 (Luther)
60 - 63 (Ambiorix)
28-29 mar 2019
Opening hours: 18.00 - 21.30
The video - ‘50.000 SCANS’ is part of an on-going project called ‘Scanning Cinema’. It explores the physical action of scanning moving images. This video is made entirely out of scans. A self-developed manual scanning process generates the shifts between them. Using a flatbed-scanner and a computer screen, as a newly combined medium, the images are wrapped into one single frame. These scans are then assembled into an animated film.
‘50.000 SCANS’ focuses on how the choreography of a human body functions in the scanned reality. It explores this scanned dimension and holds it against the historical birth of film and the registration of movement through the medium of photography. Each Act deals with a different variation on both editing-technique as well as camera-movement.
The sound is adapted to the same scan-process as the images.
‘50.000 SCANS’ is an Escautville production.
Benjamin Verhoeven (°1990, Belgium) is a Brussels based artist working with video and installation. He studied at the Ghent Royal Academy of Fine Arts and is a laureate at the Higher Institute For Fine Arts (HISK). He participated in various national and international exhibitions; amongst them at Mu:ZEE, Ostend (BE), Cinematek (BE), University Art Gallery Irvine, California (US) and the 6th Moscow Biennale, special program (RU). His work was also selected for festivals; Stuttgarter Filmwinter (DE), European Media Arts Festival, OsnabrÜck (DE), Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand (FR) and Limited-Acces Festival, Teheran (IR).