COLLECTION

THE OTHER SIDE

Peter Downsbrough
In his early work Downsbrough was already trying to generate syntax between place and meaning, language and space. ’The Other Side’ shows two aspects of the urbane surroundings: the anonymous commotion of the city centre and the intimate alienation within the flats. A street scene is followed by a long shot of a bickering man and woman, the camera keeps close after them...

STANDING OVATION

Bernard Gigounon
The original soundtrack of a clip excerpted from Jean Renoir’s short film ‘Une partie de campagne’ (1936) picturing a river under heavy rain has been switched. Applauses in a concert hall are here recalling the sound of the rain. The video was originally edited as part of an in-situ installation during a concert by Martha Argerich at the Royal Music Academy...

Jokes, 2000, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

JOKES

Angel Vergara
Vergara asks the artists participating in ’Over the Edges’ to tell a joke. While he is in his car, he tells one himself in French and Dutch....

COMBUSTIONS

Claude Cattelain
In his work Claude Cattelain tries to grasp the essence in the volatile. His short and personal flashes of astonishment and fragility offer a striking image of a passage from one place to another or a shift in frames of mind...

DARK MATTER

Lucile Desamory
In 1989, a wave of unidentified flying objects (UFO's) swept through Belgium. A woman, who witnessed the phenomenon, talks about her consternation....

STARFIGHTER

Wolf Vostell
'Starfighter' contains images of war scenes, ranging from simply figurative to invisible or almost erased. The images were filmed directly from the television screen with a Super 8 camera: blurred footage on a harrowing sound that illustrates particularly well a point Marshall McLuhan made: the media subtly manipulate information. (Berta Sichel)...

MARC

Peter Fol
This video manifesto by Peter Fol shows a masked young man from the Brussels conurbation. He tells about himself, and about the way he sees things in daily live. The person reflects openly on truth and logic, on intelligence and creativity, or on the love for one’s neighbor....

4 X 4 - EPISODES OF SINGAPORE ART : EPISODE 3: TANG DA WU – THE MOST RADICAL ART GESTURE

Tzu Nyen Ho
Episode 3 is a re-interpretation of a performance by Tang Da Wu (°1943) in 1995. Tang Da Wu is one of the earliest and most influential performance artists in Singapore, and co-founder of The Artists Village...

LA TRISTEZA COMPLICE

Sven Augustijnen
This work is a document of and about the people who were involved with the creation by Les Ballets C. de la B. of ‘La Tristeza Complice’. The medium, super 8 film, enables the makers of the tape to observe the production process from the margin...

VLAANDEREN IN VOGELVLUCHT

Jef Cornelis
An outlook on Flanders from the air. The familiar landscape is explored as it could never be explored before and this liberating experience makes it even more familiar in many ways. The spaces, plains and roads are taken up as part of a bigger unity – like on a roadmap, if it weren’t for the fact that the movement could make the exploration take place in a much more physical way...