De bom [The Bomb]
1995
Video, 00:05:00.
Materials: dvd, digital betacam
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. BK7620).
In De Bom (The Bomb), Jos De Gruyter and Harald Thys track a man creating a bomb in his garden, where it eventually explodes. The camera carefully follows the man, tracing his every move as if it were a news report. Here, De Gruyter and Thys make references to documentary conventions and styles, but this is not reality: the production remains carefully staged.