COLLECTION

YZER

An van. Dienderen
"A personal documentary conceived as a search for the source of the Belgian river Ijzer, in which its historical connotations to WWII are explored in relation to its natural trajectory. Experimenting with sound and images, this poetical video evokes rather than explains, by leaving any textual commentary aside." (Source: An van...

LE REFUGE

Nadia Touijer
In the outskirts of the Tunisian capital there is the graveyard of Jallez. Every day long silhouettes dwell about this immense place, looking for a job and some hope. This documentary develops into a serene reflection of a place where shadows rule, of small life in a place of death...

WHOOSH

Anouk De Clercq
Motion pictures, motion graphics and music interplay in a poetic reflection on our accelerated age. Simple geometric patterns, animation and live elements reflect the artists inclination towards mixed artforms....

X-MISSION

Ursula Biemann
’X-Mission’ explores the refugee camp as one of the oldest extraterritorial zones. Taking the Palestinian refugee camps as a case in point, the video engages with the different discourses – legal, symbolic, urban, mythological, historical – that give meaning to this exceptional space...

SCULPTURE HOUSE

Aglaia Konrad
In the second half of the 1960s, the Belgian architect Jacques Gillet started the construction of the 'Sculpture House Project' (1967-1968), a private dwelling in the surroundings of Liège, Belgium. A synthesis of structure and form, the architect worked together with the sculptor Félix Roulin and the engineer René Greisch...

Evolution Revolution, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist

EVOLUTION REVOLUTION

Peter Finnemore
The camera wonders around a forest looking for something. First we see a fire, then we hear footsteps, finally we track down a guerilla, but surprisingly it's a monkey in camouflage battle dress!...

CONFUSING DRUM

Jan Locus
In Belfast the night before July 12th – the annual Protestant celebration – massive bonfires are lit in many Protestant neighborhoods.These towering structures, built months in advance, are mostly made up of wooden pallets and car tires with some reaching over 30 metres tall...

ADAM OF EVA IN HET PARADIJS

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
The film ’Adam of Eva in het Paradijs’ is a combination of computer animation and video material set to music by Mauro Pawlowski. The images were made during a performance with a (participating) audience in an environment which reminds of a living room...

ELEVAGE DE POUSSIÈRE / DUST BREEDING

Sarah Vanagt
In this work, Sarah Vanagt turns her attention to an important chapter in recent European history: the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague...

J'ESPÈRE QUE VOUS ALLEZ BIEN

Boris Van der Avoort
Taken from film archives, this playful and nostalgic ‘montage’ wants to picture the lives and hopes of three generations of a Belgian family between 1931 and 1997. Images belonging to the family possessions take us back to childhood and play, journeys, relationships, dancing...