COLLECTION

VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): DIALOGUE AVEC UNE CAMÉRA

Jacques Lennep
A mixture between a camera study and a performance wherein the artist communicates with the camera in sign language using flags to communicate his message....

MY RECTUM IS NOT A GRAVE (NOTES TO A FILM INDUSTRY IN CRISIS)

Steve Reinke
Using footage shot in 1938 and 1939 by Ivan Besse, who owned a movie theatre in Britton, South Dakota and used local portraits in a kind of local news-reel, Reinke builds a strange reverie, sometimes speaking as Besse, sometimes as St. Paul, with reference to Frank O’Hara, Odetta and Dusty Springfield....

Lettre verte à Hervé Brouhon, 1989, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

LETTRE VERTE À HERVÉ BROUHON

Angel Vergara
The movie is part of an installation set up in 1989 in the Centre for Fine Arts for the exhibition ’Incident de Parcours’, organised by the Fondation de la Tapisserie in Tournai. The installation was projected onto a canvas painted green, and a letter by Hervé Brouhon was also displayed as well, his response to Vergara’s request to put a cow in Brussels Park and paint it...

THE LONELY

Hubert Marécaille
Pending a response to his ad placed in a newspaper in the hope of meeting a woman, a computer worker goes about his everyday activities : reading computer magazines, eating, watching TV, visiting his aunt in search of affection, spending time at the cemetery with his deceased parents, meditatively ironing his colthes, celebrating his birthday thinking of an unhappy colleague, jealous of his newly ...

MENTAL ARCHITECTURE

Messieurs Delmotte
This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 2...

BURROUGHS VERTICAL?

Hänzel & Gretzel
‘Burroughs Vertical?’, a video installation on six monitors and made with four tapes, mixes the voice and photos of the American Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs with a flashing stream of image fragments. Two balls made out of concentric circles in green and orange keep spinning around like they are trying to hypnotize the audience...

PUB K DICK

Hänzel & Gretzel
‘Publicité K Dick’ is a commercial for Dr. Smile’s substrate, that promises to give you “the ever welcome psychic youth”. The title refers to the American science-fiction author Philip K Dick, who was known for his periods of paranoia, madness and psychosis...

TWO HANDS

Fabio Wuytack
Two Palestinian hands. In Palestine there are only four heart surgeons. Mohammed Tamim is one of them. In 2003 he came to Belgium to specialize in paediatric surgery. The second Intifada has turned Mohammed into a war surgeon. Each day he fights his own battle, trying to achieve his dream. There are times when he works in the operating room for seven days a week...

REEL TO REEL

Teresa Cos
Accompanied by a solemn chant - which slowly becomes the feedback sound of a distorted guitar in loop - the miniature boats of the Mini-Europe theme park in Brussels appear one after the other, seamlessly. The models fade into each other intersecting reflections of great European landscapes, leaving the way to an eerie underwater world...

OUR AFRICA

Alexander Markov
1960. The USSR starts humanitarian aid programs based on Marxist ideology in several newly independent African countries. For more than 35 years the Soviets expand their influence in Africa. Soviet filmmakers are sent along to document the glorious advance of socialism on the entire continent...