COLLECTION

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 26. WISH

Steve Reinke
It has always been my wish to have been a dermatologist in Philadelphia during the Great Depression....

GIROUETTE

Mira Sanders
Sanders films a weather vane on the Nieuwe Graanmarkt/ Nouveau marché au Grains in the centre of Brussels. Looking through the eye of the camera, it takes Sanders a little while to realize that at a certain moment, once the wind is blowing, the gilded weather vane has a blinding effect in the sun. Because of the camera placement, the film creates a magical time space for the viewer....

STAGING SILENCE (2)

Hans Op de Beeck
Hans Op de Beeck's film Staging Silence (2) is based around abstract, archetypal settings that lingered in the memory of the artist as the common denominator of the many similar public places he has experienced. The video images themselves are both ridiculous and serious, just like the eclectic mix of pictures in our minds...

ROOKGORDIJN BOVEN BRUSSEL (HET INNO-DOSSIER HEROPEND)

Bram Van Paesschen
The cause of Europe’s largest department store fire remains unsolved even today. On May 22, 1967 the Brussels branch of the chain ‘A l’Innovation’ burned down to its foundations. The reason for the fire, which claimed more than three hundred lives, was arson, as far as one can tell today...

LETTRE D'UN CINÉASTE À SA FILLE

Eric Pauwels
‘Lettre d’un cinéaste à sa fille’ is a playful, free and personal film in the form of a letter, a film interwoven with a thousand stories knit together with different textures, a book of images where a filmmaker shows the images and the stories he wants to share....

Gand Est, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

GAND EST

Angel Vergara
Vergara filmed this piece in looking eastward over Ghent. On the edge of the Book Tower’s terrace lies an open catalogue of Chambres d’Amis, an exhibition held in Ghent in 1986. With a brush in his hand he traces the images with gestures that suggest he is painting...

Familia, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

FAMILIA

Angel Vergara
Two families are presented. They are sitting together at the table and looking at photo albums. With a brush, Vergara follows their contours and movements...

NIELE TORONI

Jef Cornelis
While in the mid-1980s in South quarter of Antwerp work a museum of contemporary art was being set up, a series of private art galleries opened their doors in the same quarter. In the gallery of Micheline Szwajczer an exhibition was on with new works by the Swiss artist Niele Toroni. Cornelis presents a detached overview of the works—comment and soundtrack are missing...

FOTO-ROMAN

Ken Kobland
Road-video, video-poem, fugue-like daydream: this could be three possible labels for this associative and fragmentary video. The material, shot in Moscow, Beijing, Istanbul, Milan and New York, shows what any tourist gets to see in those places: a landscape rushing by seen from a train, a hallway on a plane, one’s feet in a bathtub...

KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST GEEN KRITIEK? 4. WANNEER DE KUNST LICHTJES BEDWELMT

Jef Cornelis
Part of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art NOT Criticism?”, in this case : ’When art slightly intoxicates’. Museums are used as cultural oases in urban surroundings, where artworks are the object of selfless admiration...