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...

M. Verdoncklaan, Mekhitar Garabedian, 2003 © the artist & producer

M VERDONCKLAAN

Mekhitar Garabedian
In this visual poem, we see someone looking through a pile of old photographs. The images are taken from the artist’s family archive, and are typical of the snapshots found in any family photo album. Taken in Syria, Lebanon and Belgium, they show adults and children celebrating and living their lives...

LA FIN DU MONDE

Jacques Lennep
Lennep adds a tiny extra to Gustave Courbet’s famous Origin of the World....

Blanket Apology, Adam Leech, 2010 © the artist

BLANKET APOLOGY

Adam Leech
Blanket Apology focuses on strategies of communication that are used when public figures give public apologies. Like Speech Bubble (2008), Blanket Apology is a dialogue between a man and a woman...

DE NAZI

Jos De Gruyter
Before the eye of the camera a Nazi attempts to justify his acts. The scene is a parody of the ‘anonymous’ interview: the voice is scrambled and the head is not shown on screen. The relativizing testimonial is given an unreal and absurd edge through subtle pace accelerations...

FINLAND - TALLINN

Didier Volckaert
"This video has been constructed out of 12 colorslides I took on vacation: An architectural journey to Finland with a change of direction towards Talinn. One of the many trips I made under guidance of my old teacher and always-mentor Gilbert Decouvreur. Distortion (snow) visualizes the failure of communicating the emotions we experienced to others. Video is an illusion of the image...

2 FEET FOR 2 BALLS

Messieurs Delmotte
On a football field, a disabled man is standing. He stares at two balls, a red one and a yellow one. Suddenly, the balls start to move and get closer and closer to the man till they climb up to his arms. This work is part of the series UNDO / REDO...

Silent China, 2007, Mira Sanders © the artist

SILENT CHINA

Mira Sanders
For ’Silent China’, Mira Sanders did not want to capture images, but sound. While the image remains black, subtitles give us a fragmented impression of a journey through China, including the exact place and date of the recordings. The video was presented together with a folder on which several drawings, conceived as a description of noise, had been printed...

IJSBREKER 01: PANAMARENKO

Jef Cornelis - Freddy Coppens - Jackie Claeys
The first Ijsbreker (’Icebreaker’) on water: a transmission, created before the eyes of the viewer, aspiring to tear down the high walls around the art world, breaking through the ready-made and brushed up ways of television at the same time. This edition evolves around the artist Panamarenko, speaking from his living laboratory in Antwerp...

WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR

Shelly Silver
"A woman sets out to photograph moments of intimacy. On an Internet dating site she writes: ’I’m looking for people who would like to be photographed in public revealing something of themselves...’ What I’m Looking For, a 15-minute high definition video, documents this adventure; the connections formed at this intersection between virtual and actual public space...