COLLECTION

MELENCOLIA, EEN HOMMAGE NON-STOP

Stefaan Decostere
An essay which is at the same time a very personal homage to cinema and the history of visual art. Using early film footage as illustration, Decostere unfolds his reflecting piece in a setting that calls to mind pictures by Escher and Magritte...

HOMMAGE À MICHEL BONNEMAISON

Joëlle de La Casinière
On November 6th 2006, his birthday, and 7 months after his death, a gathering of his friends paid tribute to Michel Bonnemaison at the SCAM (Société Civile des Auteurs Multimédia) in Paris...

LA TOUR PENCHÉE

Jacques Lennep
The artist visits the tower of Pisa. The video shows us how the tourists are photographed as if they are leaning against the tower. Back at home Lennep adjust the position of the tower by tilting the television....

TOPOLOGIC

Cel Crabeels
Crabeels’s work ‘Topologic’ records the prolonged contortions of a man attempting to put on, and to take off again, a piece of clothing. Here the body is used both as a terrain of experiment, and as a metaphor for artist’s labour of inhabiting space in general...

LEARNING PIECE: BE PATIENT, MY SOUL

Mekhitar Garabedian
This ‘learning piece’, like American artist Vito Acconci’s 1970 Learning Piece, concerns a performance in which a song is learned measure by measure, bit by bit. But, as Garabedian states in an interview, his is an appropriation of Acconci’s performance. During his own performance, Acconci sits at a table, playing a tape of Leadbelly’s Black Betty...

THE DEATH OF JAMES LEE BYARS

Peter Brosens
Based upon two performances / installations of James Lee Byars: ‘The Death of James Lee Byars’ and ‘The White Mass’. In ‘The Death of James Lee Byars’, the artist acts out his own death on 1 July 1994. Wearing a mask and dressed in gold, Byars lies in the ‘golden room’ of the Marie-Puck Broodthaers Art Gallery in Brussels...

LOST POETS

André Colinet
André Colinet presents a disturbing video, dedicated to a city under siege. Raising painful questions about the conflicts that divide people and nations, the film maker has made a demanding film that is open to several interpretations. Its clean mise en scène is simple and never seeks to please. It reminds the viewer that only rigour serves a poetic writing...

QUOD

Alexis Destoop
‘Quod’ is based on medical macro pictures of the eye. Through animation techniques the inner depth of the perceived “object” was accentuated. Then the animation was integrated into a 3D model, which was conceived as an unfolding surface. Contradictory principles are bundled together in a slowly transforming dynamic, a hypnotic dance of micro movements....

BANG [DING DONG]

Meggy Rustamova
Bang [Ding Dong] is a new video artwork by Meggy Rustamova, created at the invitation of the FOMU. The film tells the story of a group of children who learn the Dutch language. Rustamova starts from her personal memories as an eight-year-old refugee in Europe. Just like other newcomers, she stumbled over the word 'afraid'...

YOU DO NOT LEAVE TRACES OF YOUR PRESENCE, JUST OF YOUR ACTS

Gernot Wieland
The film You do not leave traces of your presence, just of your acts can be read as an experimental coming-of-age film that illuminates the traces of three characters from the filmmaker's youth: Maria, Daniel and Jackpot. In the stories, which Wieland tells in his own voice from a first-person perspective, autobiographical and fictional elements merge into a dense poetic space...