COLLECTION

DE KUNST VAN HET BOOMHAKKEN / L'ART DE COUPER UN ARBRE

Jan Vromman
Vromman explores the role of women in society by means of the strangest of all byways. Subject of his documentary is the Flemish monk-missionary-priest-writer-photographer André De Smet. Centrally in De Smet’s thinking is -perhaps surprisingly for a Trappist monk- woman. In ancient time there existed a matriarchal in which a sacral sexuality was central...

SITE, EEN TOPOGRAFISCH PORTRET

An van. Dienderen
"What’s identity? To what extent does origin determine the work of an artist? An van. Dienderen analyses the matter by means of a visual anthropological portrait of José Besprosvany. This choreographer of Mexican-Jewish-Slavic origins tests out his multiple identity through the personal trajectory of his work...

L’APOCALYPSE SELON THERESA

Danièle Nyst - Jacques Louis Nyst
After the Apocalypse, Theresa took refuge in an abandoned farm-house on the brink of the Nomala desert. One sunny day she discovers the lifeless body of a young soldier carried away by the river. Theresa takes him to her room she arranged in a barn...

Evolution Revolution, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist

EVOLUTION REVOLUTION

Peter Finnemore
The camera wonders around a forest looking for something. First we see a fire, then we hear footsteps, finally we track down a guerilla, but surprisingly it's a monkey in camouflage battle dress!...

PIEDS À L'ENVERS

Michel François
In Pieds à l'Envers, the camera is turned upside down and rotates around and around the artist's feet. The sound of the footsteps of the artist gives a sort of understanding of his action, but the focus is on his feet while the background keeps on moving in a continuous circle. Together with the reverse point of view, the video brings to lose the viewer's balance in a spiral shaking image....

A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF CLARITY

Emmanuel Van der Auwera
Teenagers are watching a video on internet while videotaping their own reactions. Fragments after fragments, this loose community express their comments and witness a deep trouble in an ever more invading off-camera space. We are caught between two images: the missing one being watched and the image of the spectator. This ultra thin angle opens a breach on the multiple dimensions of dismay...

BERG RECHTS

Jan De Cock
This project consists of two simultaneously shot videotapes, of which ’Berg Links’ is the other one, realized at the bottom of the Waterloo Hill in February 1999. De Cock’s video shows a buzz of activity around the hill, with a lot of running about and lugging of wooden planks and scaffolds...

CONCRETE & SAMPLES III: CARRARA

Aglaia Konrad
Concrete & Samples I, II, III is a series of 16mm films on sculptural architecture. What the buildings and site in all films have in common is the idea of ‘architecture as sculpture’ and a very distinct use of concrete that seem to depart from the free form of the whole in a sculptural manner...

ULURU, AUSTRALIA, NEAR KANGAROO'S TAIL MEN'S SACRED SITE

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
When visiting Uluru, the large sandstone rock in Australia, Van Kerckhoven asked Danny Devos to lay down naked on his stomach with his legs open, a piece of wood tied between his ankles, his hands tied behind his back...

MÉTAPHORES

Gary Bigot
All the events and actions in this video revolve around the number ten. They are all ’metaphors’ for that figure. A man is walking through the corridor of a historical building, numbering the pillars of the walls with a piece of chalk. A lady is counting to ten on her fingers. Likewise Bigot records images of ten windows, of ten jumps, and so on....