COLLECTION

SUDEUROPA

Raphaël Cuomo - Maria Iorio
Sudeuropa examines the ways in which European and Italian immigration policies materialise on location by reconfiguring the space, time and the daily life of the Italian island Lampedusa...

KAMERA-KUSSEN

Bert Beyens
A man and a woman are kissing each other by means of a camera. We see two naked actors, a man and a woman, in a closed white space, each holding an identical small camera. They start filming, the lenses held close together. They part, let the cameras slide over each other’s body. After a period of intense observation on both sides the lenses approach again and a black image is formed...

JOHAN

Sven Augustijnen
’Johan’ is a purely documentary film that shows the therapy undergone by a patient suffering from aphasia. Aphasia is an illness that affects the language centres of the brain and that can be generated by, amongst other things, a brain-tumour or -haemorrhage...

BILE

Ira A. Goryainova
"How thin is the human skin? What does it hide behind? The leather bag of apocalypse."Bile is an introspective essay on the notion of the human body as political metaphor. Layer-by-layer the film digs down in order to reach answers to the proposed questions: what is body, what is illness and finally, what is death...

CHAPITRE 2 - NOW WON

Charley Case
The DVD project NOW WON elaborates on the seven-part video project Entre (2001 - 2004), in which Case explores the themes of duality and human interrelations. “When the principles of past and future are abandoned, the present can be fully embraced. Time is suspended. Duality becomes unity, symbolised by a spherical shape. Opposites meet in a balance...

FIREWORKS

Messieurs Delmotte
In a field, Delmotte lights two fireworks attached to sticks. He holds the sticks in his hands while the fireworks go off and makes a few spins. Offscreen people shout and whistle. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...

Gand Sud, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

GAND SUD

Angel Vergara
Vergara filmed this piece looking southward over Ghent. On the edge of the Book Tower’s terrace lies an open catalogue of Chambres d’Amis, an exhibition which took place in Ghent in 1986. With a brush in his hand, he traces the images with gestures that suggest he is painting...

1937

Nora Martirosyan
"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...

Arterim, 2003, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

ARTERIM

Angel Vergara
Arterim depicts a meeting in Brussels-South Railway Station, between Vergara dressed up as Jan Hoet, and ’Eugène, director of Arterim’. Vergara performs as Jan Hoet, just arrived from Paris, a caricature on the enthusiasm that characterizes his speech. The belief in art translates itself here into the belief that art can play an innovative part in an economic context...

RAOUL DE KEYSER

Jef Cornelis
A view on Raoul de Keyser’s exhibition in the contemporary art section of the Royal Museum in Antwerp: views of the museum, entrance hall and rooms housing the Raoul de Keyser exhibition. Raoul de Keyser strolls with Jef Cornelis across a football pitch in Deinze talking about the influence of football on his paintings. We see a few paintings on football pitch themes....