COLLECTION

SAO PAULO

Robert Suermondt
Although the presence of the architecture and urbanism of the city is constantly insinuated, neither of them is treated as the real subject of the film. As the scenes that show the city are cut up by scenes of groups of friends, the way the megalopolis is approached is ‘familiarised’. It is as if the film assimilated a sort of personal wandering. Even the way of filming is paramount...

LA JOYEUSE ENTRÉE DE STRAATMAN DANS BRUXELLES

Angel Vergara
During the first edition of BrxlBravo in 2005, Angel Vergara’s alter ego gave a performance. Straatman distributed a letter from one of the firetrucks driving through Brussels from north to south, crossing a socially layered urban reality...

THE MOVEMENT OF PHILL NIBLOCK

Maurits Wouters
The movement of Phill Niblock is a portrait of dronecomposer, structural filmer and NewYork sixties-icon Phill Niblock. He was one of the personal photographers of Charles Mingus & Duke Ellington. Later on he worked in Judson Dance Theatre and shot a film for Yvonne Rainer. On Niblock's 60th birthday Sonic Youth did a performance in his loft...

UU

Teresa Cos
"Countless people die everyday, yet those who remain live as if they were immortal." * UU is a two-channel film and sound installation produced during a 12-month residency at the WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels...

LE PETIT TOURISTE

Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel Bonnemaison
A ’train movie’ in the Urubamba valley, where a young gringo seems to be having bad dreams. All the racket of the train and the sound of a local band punctuate the elliptical editing of a phoney narrative, which pretends to end in Cuzco....

MUSÉE DE L'HOMME (AUTRES)

Jacques Lennep
Musée de l'homme is a series with three characters, who each have a specific hobby and a specific urge to collect things....

TSÉ TSÉ

Emilio López-Menchero
At the height of mad cow’s disease, of swine fever and dioxin crisis, the artist crossed the Dutch borders with Holland and Germany with a collection of live tsé tsé flies in order to show them to the tiny German village of Borken where the curators Jan Hoet and Michel Dewilde organised the group show Artline 5 around the dialectic of the notions of nature and architecture...

TIME - CODE / 1434

Andreas Brehmer - Christine de la Garenne
In ‘time-code’, a new relationship is installed between painting and video. The images registered by a surveillance camera, that is transmitting the video signal to a surveillance monitor, are being filmed for a second time by another camera. The screen is revealing the image of a painting. A Flemish masterpiece anno 1434. The video ‘feels’ the surface of the painting...

TVC Sonia, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

TVC SONIA

Angel Vergara
With his brush, Vergara traces cinematic images of the studio of Castelló’s local broadcasting station. The female host of a controversial program, whose father launched the station, is shown sitting in the studio. People can call her with complaints about other people. The scandal relating to Manuela Trasobares – see ’Manuela’ – first broke in this program....

DIMBU

Harald Thys - Jos De Gruyter
Starting off from the proposition: “If it’s possible to do 100 km in one hour, it must be possible to do 100.000 km in 1.000 hours”, a number of experiments are developed with the realisation of this axiom as a final purpose. Three experts report on the different tests with slides, overhead projections and video....