COLLECTION

EVENTO

Marie André
André brings her minimal yet elegantly sensual aesthetic to this interpretation of dance for video. She writes that Evento is "a spectacle of dance filmed within the natural decor of a hangar. [It explores] opposition, the duality of two dancers in a variety of architectural movements that emphasize the dancers' strength...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 84. STENTOR

Steve Reinke
We are all so physically repulsive, special psychic forces are necessary for us to couple....

A PEE, A POOP, A PLATE, PARADISE (HEIDI IN DREAMLAND)

Ken Kobland
…the dog in dreamland? Or is it me?...

LA VILLE INVISIBLE

Philippe de Pierpont
Brussels’ inhabitants tell of the privileged relationship they have with a place – ‘their place’ – in the city. They take us to this public place that, to their eyes, has a private character. A place to which they feel they belong. An intimate place, which they yet share with the other inhabitants of the city...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 10. BARELY HUMAN

Steve Reinke
I think it’s true: sexual pleasure is primarily located in the head - specifically, the face....

... BECAUSE SUPERGLUE IS FOREVER!!!

Johan Grimonprez
“Yesterday Salam Khamas, at the age of 93, married Mrs.Um Ahmed, at the tender age of 105, in the town of Basra, Iraq. It was sunny. The newly weds were both found dead in their honeymoon bed this morning. Mrs.Um Ahmed was still wearing her wedding dress...

BALANÇOIRE

Danièle Nyst - Jacques Louis Nyst
A short film, part of an installation, from Jacques-Louis Nyst of a red swing. The swing is going back and forth in a constant rythm. The sound-track is the monotonous sound of the rubbing metal....

TOPIC I

Pascal Baes
The French film theorist André Bazin used to consider film as a spell of time. He spoke triumphantly of a victory on the irreversibility and the transitoriness of life. Baes’s ’Topic I & II’ (the painterly quality of its dusky images is for a good reason reminiscent of Francis Bacon’s strokes) seems to question these transcendent views on cinematography...

HOUSEWARMING

Effi Weiss - Amir Borenstein
In a two-dimensional dystopian landscape of deserted half-built houses in Albania, a new mythology is in the making. The filmmakers, perhaps a contemporary incarnation of Goldilocks from the tale of the Three Bears, invade the houses and occupy their empty, liminal space and its missing furniture...

MARC MAET

Jef Cornelis
For the current art events programme 'Kunst-Zaken' Cornelis made this film about the artist Marc Maet. The programme opens with an introduction to the new photo book Roland Patteeuw made about Maet...