COLLECTION

AND THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND

Jan Dietvorst - Roy Villevoye
Since the immemorial the Papuans have perceived the world of the rich Westerners as a sort of heaven. In their encounters both Papuans and Westerners have focused upon obtaining the riches of the other culture...

HAUT LES COEURS

Lucile Desamory
“The Brain is wider than the Sky”. This sentence by Emily Dickinson appears, as magically written by an invisible hand in the film by Lucile Desamory Haut les Coeurs. The heroine walks in the snow, arrives home and falls asleep (or maybe duplicates herself) on the sofa. Follows a wandering through a fantastic landscape, through giant swans and dinosaurs...

AMIR

Charley Case
A Jew recites chanted texts in front of the camera while daubs of black ink fall in front of his face....

LA JOYEUSE ENTRÉE DE STRAATMAN DANS BRUXELLES

Angel Vergara
During the first edition of BrxlBravo in 2005, Angel Vergara’s alter ego gave a performance. Straatman distributed a letter from one of the firetrucks driving through Brussels from north to south, crossing a socially layered urban reality...

THE ASCENT OF MAN. PART I: SILENT RUNNING-APPENDIX

Jayce Salloum
Black-and-white images of a lake and a wood fill the screen. The viewer hears soft piano music, alternated with the sound of birds. Suddenly a man starts screaming. The music becomes alarming. Is there any danger?...

HET LEEG

Didier Volckaert
"Don Quichote never really existed. However, in La Mancha, Spain, you can still find his traces. I once read in a travel guide that ‘there is absolutely nothing to be seen in this area of Spain’. My camera captured that ‘absolutely nothing’ and I took it home. Made on S8 and blown up to 16mm." (Source: Didier Volckaert)...

H-H

Chloé Malcotti
The old Rhodiacéta factory in Besançon became an emblematic site after filmmakers including Chris Marker and Jean-Luc Godard collaborated with the workers there for the creation of various films. Today the site will be demolished in order to create something new...

CAPSULAR

Herman Asselberghs
Ciudad Autonoma de Ceuta is a Spanish enclave on the coast of Morocco. Formerly administered by the Spanish province of Cadiz, it is now an autonomous community with a parliament and a president of its own.  Ceuta, along with Spain, is now  part of the European Union...

SMELL THE FLOWERS WHILE YOU CAN

Johan Grimonprez
Johan Grimonprez transposes an extract from Meg Stuart’s compelling choreography ‘No Longer Ready-Made’ to the anonymous waiting room of a railway station. This colourless space along with nameless travellers provides the excellent setting for Stuart’s hectic and intense convulsions...

VOYAGE EN PAYS SECRET

Jean-Claude Riga
Three women. Magical and devout practices. Prayers coming from the depth of times, paganism and religion. Rituals in the kitchens, the cowsheds. Laying on of hands almost caresses. Sweetness of housewives. Countryside energy. Relief and healing. At the end of the way, yet, illness and death. That of men and beast....