COLLECTION

ROND EST LE MONDE

Olivier Dekegel
In the company of a mule and a Super8 camera, a filmmaker walks through the world enchanted by the beauty of all things. Inspired by Saint Francis of Assisi's "Praise of the Creatures", an enlightened and candid contemplation driven by the changing light of seasons. This film is an invitation to a voyage, a voyage around the world with the most simple and humble of all animals, the donkey...

THE OTHER SIDE

Peter Downsbrough
In his early work Downsbrough was already trying to generate syntax between place and meaning, language and space. ’The Other Side’ shows two aspects of the urbane surroundings: the anonymous commotion of the city centre and the intimate alienation within the flats. A street scene is followed by a long shot of a bickering man and woman, the camera keeps close after them...

FERMETURE DE L'USINE RENAULT À VILVOORDE

Jan Bucquoy
February 1997: Louis Schweitzer, CEO of French car company Renault, makes the irrevocable decision to close the big Renault factory in Vilvoorde (Belgium) within three months. The Renault workmen immediately begin a strike and carry out a programme of action in Belgium and in France...

MY WORD

Vito Acconci
In this feature-length silent film, Acconci is interested in language, the power of words and the qualities of Super8 film – a medium originally without sound...

UNTITLED PART 9: THIS TIME

Jayce Salloum
Out of the mouths of rural boys, finding the incomparable Mulla Nasrudin in Afghanistan. After my first year of art school in San Francisco in 1978, I quit, and headed to the Banff School of Fine Arts to do a year long residency program. The instructor Hu Hohn got me hooked on Sufi stories such as, "The Exploits and Subtleties of the incomparable Mulla Nasrudin"...

THE INVISIBLES' PARLIAMENT

Vincent Meessen
The narrative in ‘The Invisibles’ Parliament’ is based on ghost images. Two apparitions emerge from the darkness and lead us towards a still fountain where a crowd is waiting for them. The ‘fountain’ object is here poetically re-visited. Through a series of loose associations, this short film traces the roots of modernity...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 44. SELF HELP

Steve Reinke
"I spent too much time worrying about the future..."...

DJ REVERSE

Messieurs Delmotte
In ’DJ Reverse’ Messieurs Delmotte parodies an icon of popular culture and music: the deejay. He puts on a record that plays a disco tune. Then Delmotte starts dancing and scratching the record badly, screaming ’baby baby baby’. This work is part of the series FränZ ünd KoFöN...

Shy Gardener II, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist

SHY GARDENER II

Peter Finnemore
Close-up on some pear and apple trees where rudimental scarecrow has been hanged between branches. Finnemore slowly appears behind a sunflower, picks an apple, eats it and throws the core against the scarecrow: its camouflage battle hat fall down and it remain a ball with a sarcastic drawn smile....

La banque, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

BANQUE

Angel Vergara
’Banque’ is a montage of historical images of Belgian banking house and media excerpts of the Fortis-crisis that sweept across Belgium and the Netherlands in 2008 and 2009. Angel Vergara sketches historical and contemporary cross-references between the artistic and financial worlds in Belgium...