COLLECTION

JEANNE LA PUCELLE

Ana Torfs
In this early video work, made in 1988, at the end of her second year at Sint-Lukas University College of Art and Design in Brussels, Ana Torfs shows a contemporary version of the life of Joan of Arc, based on testimonies of her friends and enemies, as transmitted in Jeanne d’Arc par elle-même et par ses témoins (1971) by historian Régine Pernoud...

ADDICTIVE 01

Edith Dekyndt
‘Addictive’ is a project, which started in the beginning of 2002. On the Internet, several web cams were sought out, aimed at sea and lakeside beaches. The rhythm of their refresh rate varies; some show fresh actualization every couple of seconds, others every ten minutes and still others every hour...

GARDENING

Hans Op de Beeck
This B/W animation film offers a perspective on an evolving landscape drawn in pencil. The artist is invisible to us, and tries to tame the landscape into highly singular gardens by shaping nature, manipulating, destroying and reviving it. The spectator sees how the author works out a train of thought in a remarkable vocabulary....

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 85. NEW YORK LOVES ME

Steve Reinke
Everyone loves Steve in New York. Or at least, that’s what they say....

A CURE FOR BEING ORDINARY

Cooper Battersby - Emily Vey Duke
’A Cure for Being Ordinary’ is a short experimental narrative telling the story of Tim Eckman, a young computer programmer who escapes the drudgery of  his work place by moving into the rafters above his cubicle. From the new perspective of his, he is able to draw conclusions about the impact of capitalism on human perceptions of time...

VICTORIA

Lukas Marxt
The hypnotic wasteland of Southern California (USA) is infused with the free-spirited nature of Easy Rider, the alienation and uprootedness of Michelangelo Antonioni, and the deep transcendence of Werner Herzog. It speaks to us through fragments of dialogues from iconic films, and yet it remains elusive and dissolves into abstract shapes, rhythms, and compositions...

EENZAAM HUISJE

Jen Debauche
An abandoned house is haunted by the ghost of its former inhabitant, an old lady who cannot say goodbye to the dwelling of her living time. In the attic, a forgotten doll reminisces about the happy days, when the house was still beautiful and she could play in the blossoming flower garden. Now, everything has faded into oblivion and material decay...

UNE TAUPE AU SOLEIL

Jacques Lennep
The masked Lennep catches a mole. He dips the animal in a glass with gold paint and holds it in the sunlight. The video is a reference to Joseph Beuys....

THE LADDER 1

Messieurs Delmotte
With his head between two rungs Messieurs Delmotte tries to balance a ladder. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...

FILMER LE BAS DES MURS AU COURS D'UNE LONGUE PROMENADE URBAINE

Jacques Lizène
Lizène intended to film the base of the wall along a very long urban promenade, a project which would never be realized except for this trial shot on 8mm. The original scheme was, according to Lizène “almost very good, would have been very long and very boring”....