Cornelis, Jef
°1941 - Antwerp (Belgium).For Jef Cornelis, who directed films for Belgian television between 1964 and 1998, it is important that his work should add something extra to the ‘television experience’. Cornelis’s work is primarily a dissection of television itself ...
Heidsieck, Bernard
°1928 - Paris (France).Bernard Heidsieck, a multimedia poet, finds his origins in action poetry and is one of the cofounders of sound poetry together with Henri Chopin, when, in 1959, they started to use recorders and microphones not simply as reproductive tools but as transformative mixing devices. Heidsieck published his first book of poems in 1955 and shortly afterwards he started his first recording experiences ...
Catrysse, Wim
°1973 - Leuven (Belgium). Lives and works in Antwerp.Wim Catrysse’s experimental video installations are concerned with 'becoming', as a term, which leads to associations with active and reactive forces, ultimately determining the personal identity. His attention is principally aimed at corporeal expression, at the language of the body, which can be perceived as the result of his fondness for the theater and live performances. ...
Mayer, Ralo
°1976 - Eisenstadt (Austria). Lives and works in Vienna.Ralo Mayer’s cross-media work derives its form from a process-oriented mode of artistic knowledge-generation. This artist’s main motifs include the investigation of narrative structures, the study of miniature universes and the interweaving of fiction and reality. ...
Baes, Pascal
°1959 - Nice (France). Lives and works in Brussels.Pascal Baes experiments with the use of the stop-motion technique and specializes in image-by-image animation. He has also produced a range of "dance films". where dancing itself is released from its limitations, which are inherent to the stage, and recorded as a paradoxical experience. Thematically, as well as philosophically, he refers to the cinematic avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s. ...
Sessa, Alberta
°1967 - Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels.After her studies (languages and law) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Alberta Sessa started working in the distribution of documentary and experimental movies (1995-1999). In 1998 she started a series called Le Monde tel qu'il va, based on newspaper clippings ...
Mbakam, Rosine
°1980 - Tonga (CM). Lives and works in Brussels (BE)Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam grew up in Cameroon in a traditional family. She chose cinema at a very early age and trained in Yaoundé thanks to the team of the Italian NGO COE where she was introduced to image, editing and directing in 2000. She collaborated and directed several films for this structure before joining in 2003 Spectrum television where she directed and edited several audiovisual programs ...
Hänzel & Gretzel
°1966 - Nancy (France).Hänzel & Gretzel was the pseudonym of Daniel Mangeon, video artist, author, maker of music videos, television director and image dresser of all sorts, who died in 2000 of AIDS at the age of 34. Throughout his broad oeuvre the recurring themes are a passion for transgressive pop music and an interest in the absurd ...
Voignier, Marie
°1974 - Ris-Orangis (France). Lives and works in Paris.Marie Voignier’s work is constantly seeking to explore the intertwinement of imaginary and factual elements in reality itself ...
Schuurbiers, Alex
°1990 - Lives and works in AntwerpenAlex Schuurbiers (she/her, NL, 1990) is a filmmaker and photographer living and working in Antwerp, Belgium. She is also the founding member of Ursula, a female-led collective of artists working with the moving image. Her research focusesses on hybrid realities and physical carriers of time, dealing with memory and its representation in film based works ...
Christiaens, Xavier
°1963 - Lives and works in Brussels (Belgium).The self taught film maker Xavier Christiaens conceives his films with uncompromising independence and autonomy, which is rigorous and very demanding towards the medium. This places him in a line along with avant-garde film-makers. An artist without boundaries, he orchestrates the various points of attraction in his films: their writing, framing, editing, sound and direction. ...
Reutenauer, Noé
°1991 - Paris (France).Noé Reutenauer was born on 3 May 1991 in Paris. After a happy and carefree childhood, he embarked on a traditional school curriculum but he dropped out and found fulfilment in the theatre and later in film. The past years he has lived in Brussels as an exile and where he intends to finish his studies at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion ...
Dewaele, Daniël
°1950 - Knokke (Belgium). Lives and works in Bruges.The issue of the public domain is a recurring theme with Daniel Dewaele. Several of the artist’s interventions take place in public or expose the complexity and paradoxes of public space ...
Ruegg, Ilona
°1949 - Rapperswil (Switzerland).Ilona Ruegg researches the (European) urban fabric. Her drawings, photographs, spatial interventions, (sound) installations and video films attempt to (re)create an exact image of spatial and temporary conditions ...
Vandaele, Gilles
°2001 - Lives and works in BrusselsBorn in Flanders and living in Brussels, Gilles Vandaele studied Speculative Storytelling at l’école de recherche graphique and cinema at LUCA School of Arts. Having been active in different social struggles since a young age, Gilles Vandaele looks for ways in which cinema might represent and strenghten such movements ...
Dardenne, Jean-Pierre
°1951 - Engis (Belgium)Dardenne brothers, Belgian filmmakers known for their starkly realistic approach to working-class themes and characters. In addition to directing, Jean-Pierre Dardenne (b. April 21, 1951, Engis, Belgium) and Luc Dardenne (b. March 10, 1954, Awirs, Belgium) also wrote and produced their movies ...
Hill, Gary
°1951 - Santa Monica, California (United States).Gary Hill has worked with a broad range of media – including sculpture, sound, video, installation and performance – since the early 1970s. His longtime work with intermedia continues to explore an array of issues ranging from the physicality of language, synesthesia and perceptual conundrums to ontological space and viewer interactivity ...
Garcia Rubio, Pablo
°1963 - Pola de Laviana (Spain). Lives and works in Liège (Belgium).Pablo Garcia Rubio graduated in Visual Arts (painting, decoration) from the Institut des Beaux-arts St-Luc de Liège, Belgium. In 1992, he was rewarded with the Prix de la Jeune Peinture Belge (Young Painters Award) at Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. Garcia Rubio is one of three founding members of the collective In Blood We Trust. ...
Avdal, Heine
°1970 - Norway. Lives and works in Oslo and Brussels.Dancer and choreographer Heine R. Avdal's work revolves mainly around questions of space and its perception, information processing and replication. In his and his company's deepblue performances all elements - video, sound, light, performers, audience - are treated equally as a whole. ...
