videoart - visual art - media art- beeldende kunst- Geert Wachtelaer works

works

Sweet intoxication video, Beta cam, sound, non spoken, 8 min, 2000, prod Geert Wachtelaer
This video is about failure, about loving each other like in sexuality. An attempt to explore gender & sexuality which is often doomed to fail. (Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique)

Flowering wound video, Beta cam, dolby sound, non spoken, 32 min 15 sec, 2000, prod Geert Wachtelaer.
The world as a perpetual motion machine, while humanity is fading away. A constant repetition of images provokes a conflict situation. The maker conceived this work as an installation : two images projected on iron walls. In between a metal globe is turning around its axis. (Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique)

Psychosexual video DV, sound, non spoken, 7 min, 2001, prod Geert Wachtelaer
3 channel video about the hidden pain caused by sexual disorders and misunderstandings. Sound of chains hitting a wall enlarges the whole ambience.

Purification a projection, DV, sound, non spoken, 32 min, 2001, prod Geert Wachtelaer
A single screen projection, originally made for the opening of a new art gallery.
Images of purification symbols : water, salt, fire mixed with images of people washing themselves in the sea. The video was projected on a dirty, cracked and damaged wall.

Fish on Friday , video, DV, stereo sound, non spoken, 05 min, 2002, prod Geert Wachtelaer
Personal imagery of being naked confronting old symbols of religions which are in constant evolution. The fish is still used a metaphor to communicate our faith to each other and to the world. Yet a shadow of doomsday is always present.

I am afraid of a blue sky , video, DV, stereosound, spoken, 2003 prod Geert Wachtelaer
Video is in the middle of a documentary and narrative movie. It's about the existential fear of emptiness. A blue sky is nice and is usually experienced as a good thing. But on the other side, it's a opening to nothing, its too open, too empty, too plain. Images of skies mixed with conversations of a patient with his shrink.

Cycli , video, svcd, stereo sound, 2003, prod Geert Wachtelaer
Polarisation

The experiment, Projection, stereosound, non spoken, 2003 prod Geert Wachtelaer
The projection is done in a isolated and deserted laboratorium, where remains are found of an experiment that was followed by a disaster. A sense of evacuation also in social context is feelable.

Repetition video, stereosound, non spoken, 2003 prod Geert Wachtelaer

The Cracking video, stereosound, non spoken, 2004, prod Geert Wachtelaer
A metaphoric experimental about building up a tension. Stress related situtations provoked by memoryflashes and sounds.

Alpha Phaze video stereosound, non spoken,2004, prod Geert Wachtelaer
A very short video about the state between dreaming and being awake.

The Quiet Man , stereosound, non spoken, 2004, prod Geert Wachtelaer

Selfhelp , stereosound, non spoken, 2004, prod Geert Wachtelaer
A video about the ambience after the moment of truth. Actions and reactions of the human being after confrontation with their real human condition.

A last impression , stereosound, non spoken, 2004, prod Geert Wachtelaer

Fragile , stereosound, German spoken, 2004, prod Geert Wachtelaer
An short experimental film about the fragility of things and thoughts, although we claim them as unfragile. Mortality, decay and disintegration are clearly the primary factors of fragility.

Remains of a Disturbed Illusion , non spoken, 2005,prod Geert Wachtelaer This project started as an installation, but soon it was clear that it was more leaning towards an experimental film. A crossover (installation/art/objects/soundinstallation)
about a some remains in our mind, memories of disturbed, filthy actions, moments of the past, which always
leaves traces which we can not wipe out. This work is also art within art. Installations and artobjects where created with the purpose to put it on video. The artobjects only have no right to exist outside the video.

Marrige of Heaven and Hell,
Geert Wachtelaer video artist , 2006, prod Vlaams Radio Koor

Imet steun van de Vlaamse overheid.

Ordinary housewife acts series, 2006, prod.Geert Wachtelaer

Forgotten Film , 2006, prod.Geert Wachtelaer

Private City (Cityscapes and soundscapes) exclusive for MOKA Gallery, chicago, 2006 An audio-visual investigation to the the nature of the modern city, the nothingness. The position of shots next to one another is intended to create meaning within the audience's mind Cityscapes combined with dance( as an antidote for the nothingness of the modern city).
The term 'private city' means discovering hidden or undiscovered areas of a city.

Cast : Emilie de Vlam,dance and choreography Voice : Lisa Gilbert

Finding Beauty 2007, A short audiovisual painting. Nudity : the shape which catches the light. Sexuality : shapeless, not formulated. A batltle between metaphores. Time and space against the nothingness, the beauty against death, the eternal light of the shapes against the kingdom of shadows. Cast : Emilie de Vlam & Bart Gabriel.