COLLECTION

À MA D'AZIL

Thomas Israël - Charley Case
The Grotto of Mas-d'Azil is a crossed cavern dug by the river Arize in the French Pyrenees. During the prehistoric and different historic eras, it was inhabited. Furthermore, it's the only European grotto which is accessible by car and the route allowed to discover its first inhabitants such as mammoths, bears and rhinos...

HET KONINKLIJK PALEIS, ANTWERPEN, ICC

Jef Cornelis
For the exhibition The Royal Palace - Builders and Inhabitants that took place in the former Royal Palace in 1970 at the Meir in Antwerp, Jef Cornelis delivers a short but unconventional documentary film. The original 18th century building used to provide accommodation to important rulers such as Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Willem I of the Netherlands (1772-1843) and the Belgian Royal House...

Gospels, Erik Bünger, 2006 © the artist & producer

GOSPELS

Erik Bünger
With His terrible beauty, passion and drive, He has a profound effect on the people whose lives He touches. His presence generates a physical and spiritual experience, a euphoria that fascinates and frightens...

CHRYSALIDES

Patrick Bernatchez
This trilogy of films takes the Fashion Plaza Building as its subject; the films were all shot on location there. Taken together, the films form a figurative, cinematic counterpoint to the abstract audio rendering of the facades in Fashion Plaza Nights...

TRAVELOGUE 1, 2, 3

Stefaan Decostere
A series of peculiar accounts of journeys in Brussels, presented as a voyage through archival and real imagery, and through the memories and reflections this imagery invokes. 'Artificial promenades' where travellings between views (seeing) is constantly being metamorphosed and developed into travelling between points of view (ways of seeing)...

Hören Sie, die Stille, Mekhitar Garabedian, 2007 © the artist & producer

HÖREN SIE, DIE STILLE

Mekhitar Garabedian
"Don’t you hear that horrifying voice that screams across the entire horizon and that man usually calls Silence"...

ZWEI BETON-CADILLACS IN FORM DER NACKTEN MAJA

Wolf Vostell
Although 'Zwei Betoncadillacs in Form der Nackten Maja' on close inspection forms a documentation of the realization of the sculpture of the same name by Wolf Vostell in the West Berlin of 1987, this period piece – at the time the work was inaugurated to celebrate the 750th anniversary of Berlin; in 2006 it was restored to its original form – can also be read as a recorded performance...

LE PETIT TOURISTE

Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel Bonnemaison
A ’train movie’ in the Urubamba valley, where a young gringo seems to be having bad dreams. All the racket of the train and the sound of a local band punctuate the elliptical editing of a phoney narrative, which pretends to end in Cuzco....

YODEL PORTRAIT PHIL MINTON

Myriam Van Imschoot
This portrait pays tribute to the British music legend Phil Minton and the many voices that live within his wide vocal range. Originally a trumpet player, Phil Minton developed a unique approach to his voice that sings back to the hum and din of the world. Sound is paint. The moving camera — as well as the light — encircle the singer as if meditating a riddle...

LA CLÉ DU PAYSAGE

Jacques Louis Nyst
In both 'La clé du paysage’ and 'Un dimanche après-midi à 6h du soir’ the spectator is in the position of the voyeur, spying Danièle Nyst through a window. In 'La clé du paysage’, Danièle Nyst is sitting on the garden, glancing through a magazine. Her image is cut up by the window frame...