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Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Inside, the space was lit by 100 burning candles. Through the window you could see the tied up bodies of me and Frank De Busscher, a pointed wooden stick placed between their bodies and the door. It took four hours, until all the candles were burned up. Johan Desmet made music with tapes and found footage sounds.
(28 December 1979)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1989

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Târgoviște, Dâmbovița, Romania.

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Monday 25th of December 1989 (-) — General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party Nicolae Ceaușescu is executed by the firing squad.
Ceaușescu and his 70-year-old wife Elena had been sentenced to death by a People’s Court. The Ceaușescus were executed by a gathering of soldiers including Captain Ionel Boeru, Sergeant-Major Georghin Octavian and Dorin-Marian Cîrlan.