COLLECTION

WANK STALLIONS

Alison Murray
’Wank Stallions’ is a piece that addresses male identity, using two black actors and a gay, white skinhead. The video tests the territory of masculinity between two extremes, the wanker and the stallion...

LE GOÛT DU KOUMIZ

Xavier Christiaens
’Le Goût du Koumiz’, Christiaens’ first feature film, is all about the consequences of the communist regime for nomadic tribes in the Russian province of Kyrgyzstan. The narrator saw how his father, the chief of a tribe, was deported in the thirties, becoming isolated from nomadic life...

OUT - SIDE

Peter Downsbrough

SPEECH ACT

Herman Asselberghs
Following up on his meticulous dissection of the Apple laptop (in Dear Steve), Herman Asselberghs now turns his attention to another global popular consumer product: Avatar, the most expensive and highest-grossing film ever. By way of an elaborated interior monologue taking on the form of a film studies class, Speech Act covers a complex of themes well beyond cinema concerns...

TECHNOCALYPS - DEEL 1: TRANSHUMAN

Frank Theys
Technocalyps is a 3 part documentary about ‘transhumanism’, an ideology assuming that we approach an era where humans, as we know them, are no longer the driving force of civilization. All technological developments seem to converge to one main goal: to overcome humanity, to try and create something transhuman...

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’)...

THE LOGIC JACKET

Messieurs Delmotte
One sunny late afternoon, a man hangs his jacket in a tree on a rather unconventional way. This work is part of the series UNDO / REDO...

Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike. Marx/ Eisenstein/ Das Kapital, 2008, Alexander Kluge © the artist & producers

NACHRICHTEN AUS DER IDEOLOGISCHEN ANTIKE. MARX/ EISENSTEIN/ DAS KAPITAL

Alexander Kluge
Eighty years after Sergei Eisenstein’s plans to make Karl Marx’s ’Das Kapital’ into a film, the German film-maker Alexander Kluge (1932) breathed new life into the project. The starting point was Eisenstein’s intention to turn Marx’s seminal work into a movie and add a montage inspired by James Joyce (who Eisenstein met in 1929)...

RIPARIA, RIPARIA

Marion Guillard
On a birdwatching tour of the Doel polders in 2020, I came across a pile of sand in the middle of a traffic circle, itself in the middle of the industrial port of Antwerp. This pile of sand is a monumental sculpture, shaped by hundreds of shore swallows...

"LIFE ON THE EDGE" RADIO LINE

Beatrijs Albers
In 1999 and 2000 Beatrijs Albers travels to the arid American desert on the borders of California, Nevada and Arizona. There she looks for the ways in which man draws out space for himself and takes political, architectural and mental ownership. The title refers to the name of an American local religious radiostation...