COLLECTION

URINAL AND BREAD

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte puts slices of bread in the drains of a public toilet near a church and films the people leaving the toilet. Afterwards he picks the slices up and takes them home. Delmotte makes them into a ball and squeezes the ball empty in his mouth. This work is part of the series 'Rejected videos'...

ERNESTO "C’EST DIFFICILE DE VOIR L’AVENIR. JE NE SUIS PAS À DEMAIN. JE LE VERRAI PETIT À PETIT."

Sven Augustijnen - Koen Augustijnen
Ernesto Cortes, a young hip-hop dancer, lives in one of the many Toulouse suburbs. The story of the Chilean exile and his family slowly takes shape and meaning through the spontaneous events and interviews. Ernesto’s ramblings through Toulouse and the rehearsals for a nearing dance performance run through the documentary like thread...

PERM-MISSION

Rob Rombout
Perm, Russia. A documentary maker travels to the bottom of the Urals after an invitation by a local film festival. Usually this travelling filmmaker does not reflect on his medium, but this time he takes film and filming as his subject. Far removed from Europe and Moscow a new generation of enthusiastic Russian filmmakers break unexpected ground: they swear by Flaherty and abhor Vertov...

7 COME 11

Peter Downsbrough
Originally, Peter Downsbrough made 7 Come 11 to document a 30-second piece he made in the summer of 1980 on the Spectacolor Board in Times Square, called: The Dice Are Not Loaded. “You could still play dice and three-card monte in the streets, if you were gullible enough. (…) But the dice was already cast for the old, sleazy, Times Square...

Extensions, Hans Op de Beeck, 2009. Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano – Beijing – Le Moulin; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; Galerie Ron Mandos, Rotterdam – Amsterdam

EXTENSIONS

Hans Op de Beeck
In terms of content, the animated film ‘Extensions’ deals with cultural and subcultural rituals, science and technology as extensions of the human body, and as the physical manifestation of an unfailing belief in progress, which is both redemptive and ethically problematic. The artist defines the extension of the body in very broad terms...

OMNIUM GALLORUM FORTISSIME CANTANT BELGAE

Jan Vromman
A piece of the universe - in this case Belgium – is isolated in an aquarium in order to observe it more closely. And by the way, isn’t television sort of an aquarium? Two journeys are undertaken: one plunges us into the everyday reality of a typical Belgian café, while another takes us on a train ride exposing scenes of the Belgian landscape....

10TH OF NOVEMBER | 09:05

Els Opsomer
Every year on 10th of November | 09:05 in the morning, individuals across Turkey cease all activities - cars pull over, pedestrians stop and stand still - in remembrance of the death of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey), which occurred on this day and time in 1938...

LAURIEN, OCTOBER 2007

Manon de Boer
Began in 1996, Laurien is portrayed in three sessions, as indicated by the title dates (1996, 2001 and 2007). Each time, Laurien is asked to read a newspaper, which is outside of the frame, and filmed on b&w film for the duration of one Super-8 reel of ± 2’30”....

FENÊTRE DE VUE

Mira Sanders
Fenêtre de vue is a graphical exploration of how a drawing after experiencing two residencies, lines itself step by step out. The exploration considers the window as a possible perspective to capture an imaging and thinking of a drawer that is re-imagining the route she made in the two residencies....

AS SOL TO EVA

Teresa Cos
The appropriation of the famous letter that Sol LeWitt wrote in 1965 to artist and friend Eva Hesse is at the center of this work. In what seems to be a Skype conversation with a distant friend -wearing a t-shirt printed with LeWitt’s hand drawing as it appears on the manuscript- the letter becomes a two way pep talk in the mouth of an online oracle...