COLLECTION

PLANET-X

Harald Thys
 In 'Planet X' two courageous astronauts—two awkward dolls—are sent on an expedition to Planet X, the last unknown planet. A lot of surprises await the two friends on their journey. As they test the weapons that are meant to defend them, they come into contact with a strange, primitive society.  ...

LES SOEURS LUMIÈRE

Karen Vanderborght
A digital short with primitive cinema looks about guardian angels, UFO’s, the lighting of the Belgian motorways and an un-erasable penfriendship...

REAL TO REAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Messieurs Delmotte
In ’Real to real photography’ a young man is shown, among others, blowing a whistle. Furthermore the image of a woman onscreen is half covered, a man is bombarded with fruit, a woman smokes a cigarette without taking it from her mouth and a head disappears behind a mountain of whipped cream...

POUR LA MÈRE ET LA FILLE

Olivier Dekegel
An impressionist elegy about spring, water, light and motherly love, shot from the shoulder on Super 8. Connecting colourful snapshots and intimate scenes the film constitutes a homage to the candour, the cordiality and poetical nature of amateur films, home movies and domestic holiday shoots, which have developed over a couple of decades into conventionalised visual representations of the world...

BURROUGHS VERTICAL?

Hänzel & Gretzel
‘Burroughs Vertical?’, a video installation on six monitors and made with four tapes, mixes the voice and photos of the American Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs with a flashing stream of image fragments. Two balls made out of concentric circles in green and orange keep spinning around like they are trying to hypnotize the audience...

FILMCLUB SITUATIONS

Luc Deleu
The first ’situation’ shows a sticker on a car that says ’Koninklijke filmgroep van Antwerpen’ (Royal Film Group from Antwerp). The viewer is left to guess that the people recording images of streets, cars and each other are members of this film group, putting their art into practice. The second part of the film consists of a time-lapse account of different actions...

Gonzalez 1, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

GONZALEZ 1

Angel Vergara
Black and white images illustrate the term of office of the Spanish prime minister Felipe González Márquez, who was Prime Minister of Spain from the end of 1982 until 1996. With his brush, Vergara traces the cinematic images while he and the images are behind a glass screen. Vergara is suggesting that he takes his paint from the cinematic images, eventually leaving it on the glass....

WAX CANDLES

Messieurs Delmotte
In a church Delmotte cannot resist to blow out all of the candles. This work is part of the series 'Rejected videos'...

CAMERA

Uri Tzaig - Avi Shaham
A monumental sculpture of a semi-professional portable camera made of lead, part of the video-installation 'Look at Me' from Uri Tzaig and Avi Shaham....

XXXIII BIENNALE INTERNAZIONALE D'ARTE VENEZIA (1966)

Jef Cornelis
In 1966 the thirty-third edition of the Venice Biennial took place, with the participation of artists such as Henri-Etienne Martin, Lucio Fontana, Robert Jacobsen and Roy Lichtenstein—all of whom appear in this creative documentary that was originally intended for television...