COLLECTION

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 17. LANGUAGE OF RATS

Steve Reinke
Tell them you can chew through anything....

INNER ECLIPSE

Charley Case

EEN DICHTER IN TEXAS, H.C. TEN BERGE

Jef Cornelis
The Dutch poet H.C. Ten Berge is closely followed during a stay of several weeks in Texas. Ten Berge goes on the lookout for an image of this American state which nullifies the stereotypical one, closely connected to the popular TV-series ‘Dallas’...

FRIGOLITH

Michel François
Tiny Styrofoam balls, blasted by an invisible force. They seem caught in the screen. The fixed frame prevents us from seeing what they are in, where they are coming from. The tight framing closes the image in order to open it....

STARRING

Koen Theys
The images for ’Starring’ were taken from famous filmposters, coming as well from European production companies as from Hollywood or Bollywood companies. Close-ups of famous movies stars, seemingly separated from their bodies, move very slowly across the screen. Their expressions change, from fear to anger to seriousness and so on...

KOEN THEYS

Jan Florizoone
Jan Florizoone enlarges his series of extremely personal, intimate portraits of artists (Franky DC, Gorik Lindemans, Ever Meulen) with a video on visual artist Koen Theys. Armed with a video camera, Florizoone follows Theys who is himself armed with a photo camera: this takes place at various locations in Brussels; at times with the cameraman getting in the way of the photographer...

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...

PI²

Charley Case
A couple performs Rachmaninov’s Piano Sonata for 4 Hands. Their hands caress each other without touching; the bodies converge in music....

A WEEKEND WITH MONSIEUR MAGRITTE, PART 1 SATURDAY

Jef Cornelis
’a weekend with Monsieur Magritte’ was compiled from fragments of amateur films Magritte made himself on super-8 and 8mm...

AS ] THEN

Peter Downsbrough
In AS ] THEN static, photographical images are alternated with, among others, shots from a driving car. The recordings were partly made in the immediate surroundings of the former Wielemans-Ceuppens brewery in Brussels; the locations consist of building yards, the railroad, a crossroad and a railway viaduct. These images are linked to recordings made on Boulder Highway in Las Vegas...