COLLECTION

Y,X

Shelbatra Jashari
Shelbatra Jashari’s films are grounded in experimental films of the 1960s and ’70s, fused with contemporary concerns, both personal and social. Jashari creates fragmented, grainy, dreamy visual sequences that unfold randomly. ‘Y,X’ is a personal travelogue which leads through the Balkans to northern France...

THE SICKNESS

Messieurs Delmotte
In this early piece, Messieurs Delmotte is painting a series of words on the back of a performer: rabies (rage), lepra (lèpre), pest (peste), tuberculose, cholera, cancer, aids (sida)....

PASSAGE

Wim Catrysse
Passage is black and white video installation by Wim Catrysse from 1998. On the three screens we see the same tunnel-like space with a light at the end. Nothing is happening in the tunnel. On the second screen, suddenly a mouth appears at the end of the tunnel. The mouth blows into the tunnel, causing a low, monotonous sound. The same action is constantly repeated. The viewer has been misled...

BRAHMA BRAZIL

Luc Gobyn
A serial of one minute interview in the Circuit Interlagos during the Grand Prix of Brazil Formule One. Between the interview are poetic views of the popular situation in Sao Paulo....

EXPO BAR 3 X 3 X 3

Danny Matthys
In this video 3 remaining women of World Beauties appear....

INKTPOT

Luc Deleu - Filip Francis - De nieuwe Coloristen
In the dunes of the Belgian seaside town of Koksijde a bunker from World War II is with great deal of sense for detail transformed into a giant inkpot. This early video work is a collaboration between the utopian architect Luc Deleu, painter Filip Francis and the group ‘de nieuwe coloristen’ (translated as ‘the new colorists’)...

50 TABLOTINS MUSIQUÉS

Joëlle de La Casinière
Joëlle de La Casinière's 'Les tablotins' are graphic illuminated poems; small paintings-poems. In a video, each one of the tablotins – digitized and enlarged 15 times on the screen – appears as a fixed shot with a soundtrack for about three minutes....

PAPERS

Yun Tien
For migrants documents are essential. They determine if you can stay or have to go back. I was wondering how much documents we need to cross a border? I film administrative documents from different people. It’s their paper story about applying for a foreign residence....

DE EZEL VAN BURIDAN

Frank Theys - Bedrich Eisenhoet
'Buridan’s Donkey' was created in the minds and the speeches of eighteen boys and girls. The video shows some people who have never met before and, setting out from their own emotions and thoughts, tell each other about their passions. Three images doom out of the chaos: the wood, the church and the factory. The wood represents innocence and obviousness, disturbed by conscience...

THE DEAD WEIGHT OF A QUARREL HANGS

Walid Raad
A videotape in three parts exploring the possibilities and limits of writing and imaging a history of the Lebanese civil wars (1975-1991). Setting up the viewer Ra’ad constructs a tape fictionally based on facts, but not necessarily his, they are hysterical symptoms of sorts that present imaginary events constructed out of innocent and everyday material...