COLLECTION

NEWSPAPERS MAN

Messieurs Delmotte
A short video performance, in which we see Monsieur Delmotte entering the image, covered completely with newspapers. He frees himself from the newspapers and walks away from the camera, leaving the papers behind. This work is part of the series Unidentified Emoticon...

WRITING DESIRE

Ursula Biemann
Writing Desire is about the rapport between words and body and the creation of desire. The fast-paced video links the writing of romantic desire by means of electronic communication technologies to the increasing disembodiment of sexuality and commercialized gender relations. The booming bride market emerges as a site where the virtual and the physical exchange of bodies converge...

PASSION DE L'ÉTÉ POUR L'HIVER

Lili Dujourie
It's the one work in which Dujourie doesn’t perform migratory passage on and off camera. Rather, she slouches on a stool in the corner of a room, legs spread, hands between them, leaning against a wall most of time as though fatigued or bored. It's the only time she appears in feminine fashion and much more make-up than usual...

HOME

Pieter Geenen
On the walls of the local Belgian Club in Delhi, Ontario (Canada) hangs a banal painting portraying Saint Catherine's Square, a square in the heart of the Belgian capital Brussels. Depicting this specific place the painting evokes the memory connected to it for the many Belgian immigrants in this particular Canadian region, which helps defining and enhancing the community's identity...

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - DISC

Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman
A flashing stream of images of homemade videos are pasted together with random TV fragments. These images can be put on a disc, which the voice-over tells the viewer to buy....

THE KINGDOM

Pieter Geenen
The Kingdom is a series of nine videos portraying today's North American urban landscape by looking at the large Belgian community living in the Canadian tobacco belt. During 20th century this region was subject to heavy European immigration, attracting many Flemish immigrants in particular who settled as tobacco farmers...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 18. LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS

Steve Reinke
Flowers express an obscure vegetal resolution....

FABERMU

Thomas Bernardet - Florent Mulot - Camille Fallet
A collaborative video of Thomas Bernadardet co-directed with Camille Fallet and Florent Mulot. For an exhibition in the Galerie du Tableau in Marseille, each of them brought 100 photographies in digital format and 1 printed photography...

LES VACANCES DE MC LUHAN

Alain Géronnez
A video by Géronnez and Van Ré, two members of Groupe 50/04. Recorded from the inside of a car, the viewer sees a hand that sticks a picture postcard on the dashboard. On the card a historical building is depicted. The car starts moving, until it reaches the portrayed building. Then the card gets replaced by a new one that also depicts an historical building...

CARLO VAN NESTE – VIOOLVIRTUOOS

Jef Cornelis
Carlo van Neste, Belgian virtuoso and chamber musician born in 1914, is acclaimed both nationally and internationally. He teaches at the conservatories of Brussels and Utrecht, where he has prepared countless young violinists for the international stage...