COLLECTION

ARMAGEDDON VALLEY

Emmanuel Van der Auwera
In modern-day Israel a mythical place exists where according to the scripture the end of the world will occur. Pilgrims wander the site in search for clues to answer their questions, and impart their own perception of this disputed land....

UN FER À REPASSER À LA MER DU NORD

Jacques Lennep
The video relates the story of Jef Caliche, an unknown painter, who one day disappeared. The artist used to love strolling along the beach, taking along a a clothing iron as if it were a dog....

ANAL MASTURBATION & OBJECT LOSS

Steve Reinke
The artist decides to found his own art school and begins by assembling materials for the library. Finding too many words are available, he glues together the unnecessary pages of books....

LE PAYSAGE

Jacques Louis Nyst
In 'Le paysage’ a cup of coffee reflects: “I was drawn towards this landscape straight away. Calm, slightly hilly. The ideal place to rest oneself” before actually alighting on the tablecloth....

LA MINA

Loredana Bianconi
Loredana Bianconi filmed the cockerilles d’Anderlues, the oldest of Europe, just before the plant was closed. ’La mina’ is a contrasting evocation of life in Belgium in the 1950-ties, of which a young girl called Mara gives us her vision...

THE DOUBLE

Roy Villevoye - Jan Dietvorst
An exacting sculpture of a white, middle-aged male is hammered out. Voiceovers breathe life into the man whilst his appearance is accurately reconstructed. The empty shell becomes a personality thanks to the voices from the Netherlands and Papua, but who is this man really? The impression created and substantiated is simultaneously mysterious and revealing....

THE WHOLE SKIN TYPES CATALOG (A TEPID SUMMER)

Edith Dekyndt
In order to construct this work Dekyndt made a filmed review of different skins – used as a colour palette. The backs of different persons were filmed, focusing each time on the spot between the shoulder blades. The interweaving and the succession of skins, from very light to very dark, account for the diversity and unique texture of each skin...

DÉTACHEMENT

Cel Crabeels
This minimal video installation shows the material filmed by two hand camera’s attached to the belly of a trotting horse on two oppositely placed screens. They simultaneously filmed the movements of respectively the front and the hind legs...

VAN BASSENGWERKER TOT HAVENARBEIDER (ANTWERPEN)

Jef Cornelis
In 1965 more than 13,000 labourers set to work every day in the port of Antwerp and even then, every day there was a shortage of workers. “The Antwerp docker is the quickest in the world,” we hear in this creative documentary, “though they never had any specific training for their job—except for the markers...

THE SUN AND THE LOOKING GLASS - FOR ONE EASILY FORGETS BUT THE TREE REMEMBERS

Miléna Desse
On a land perpetually threatened by colonial appropriation, the transmission of history and narratives plays a peculiar and vital role. The Sun and the Looking Glass - for one easily forgets but the tree remembers is an essay-film which paints a portrait of a place on a hill above Ein Qiniya, a Palestinian village in the West Bank, with two houses from the late Ottoman period...